This custom sideboard is my early August '10 work . The piece features American Colonial period correct construction technique , hardware , and finish . The table was designed around a couple of very old Douglas Fir planks supplied by my client . This design may be rightly called colonial , provincial , country , or any of the descriptive terms applied to simple furniture making . I do not think this simple form of work should be thought of as a stylistic choice or genera of woodworking , but understood as the practical result of making furniture with a small kit of hand tools and limited time and resources . I set out to make this piece in that frame of mind . The working conditions of a frontier carpenter were my guide in terms of the design and the techniques I applied to making this table . I assembled drawers with glue and old fashioned square-cut nails , I finish smoothed all the surfaces with a handplane prior to applying the milk paint finish , and I sourced hand-wrought ring pulls for the drawers .
