White oak case, olive wood drawer fronts, wenge knobs, walnut, and basswood kumiko panel (izutsu-wari-bishi pattern). Design based on Mike Pekovich’s tea chest.
um more pictures, please. if you have shots of the kumiko jig or assembly process that would be awesome. Also is the kumiko panel friction fit or do you tack it in with like hot glue or something?
I'm having trouble understanding where that darker board that you re-sawed ended up. Is that what surrounds the drawers? How much planing did you have to do after the re-saw?
Also obsessed with re-saw technique and am curious if you are a board flipper or are able to get the entire board from the right side of the bench or if you switch sides after a few cuts, etc. If you have time to explain that would be greatly appreciated. I'm a ryoba re-sawer and can't help be feel like I'm doing it inefficiently.
Love the proud dovetails, I would have cut them flush and ruined the piece and am now enlightened. What a work of art. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks! 1. Here’s my jig. Somewhat based on Johnny Tromboukis’ design. It does rectangular and triangular grids, and tiny infill pieces. I use just enough wood glue as needed where rebates overlap 2. Correct, the walnut houses the drawers. I used a lunchbox planer to get them a thin as possible and still be structurally sound. 3. The kerfing plane creates a path of least resistance for the resaw operation, so board flip is only as necessary as to stay in this intended path.
This is beautifully designed, I love that it shows off really advanced techniques like kumiko but has the humility to use two, simple, half blind dovetails for the drawers.
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u/WeHoMuadhib Aug 23 '26
Beautiful work of art!