June the month to remember

I had thought that if I could get all the wood work finished by the end of July I would then have August to do the finish coats, I want the have the whole thing finished and ready to transport to an exhibition in early September, at the moment I feel as if I am ahead of scheduled another 2 days and I will only have handles to prepare and fix on, I have some wood turning I want to do early in July, how ever I can see I will be totally finished by the end of July so 4

weeks earlier than I had thought.
I did think the top would take longer than it did to make but then a lot of preparation had been done as I made the drawers, I was unsure just what I would do for the top the veneer I have used was very limited in size so I had to make the boarder wide or do something to take up the space I started to make a Yin Yang to go in the center of each panel but decided against it as I would loose too much of the effect of the pomelly veneer.
The cabinet has had 2 coats of finish and while that should be enough I an not happy with the result so there will be a third coat and probably 3 coats on the top.
I was pleased to get the white whale swimming around the corner of the top and also pleased with the meeting of the whales in the center of the top, the patchy look on the top is water, water that I use to remove the the veneer tape, the tape is used to hold the pieces together till the glue dries that is holding it all together.
The next pictures will be of a complete and finished chest of drawers.

Good Progress Short Days

With so much to do the days are going by so fast, of course it being winter I don't want to be out in the man cave too early or too late in the day.
I seem to have done so much but its also very time consuming, the big curved panel stood here on the floor was pressed by vacuum on the mold I made, it has now been cut up to form the drawer fronts, I pressed it long ago it seems now but it had to be done first as it dictated what the curve of the front would be.
I wanted the drawer fronts to look as if they were dovetailed to the sides so the detail took some time to achieve and to me making more than one of anything takes a long time, I made 7 drawers.
The front legs were left off because I wanted to be able to sand the fronts flat and not do damage to the legs.
Once all the veneer panels are glued on I will start cutting and gluing the boarders around them, its a slow job as I have a limited amount of cramps, I also want to be very careful and be sure there are no mistakes.