Though out-of-town work trips have hampered my progress of late, I am chipping away at this dresser and it's beginning to take shape. Meanwhile, Deirdre bites her tongue and refrains from asking "sooooooo Mr. Thompson, when's it going to be done?"
Laying out the mortises and tenons
In the middle of a long haul mortising the four main legs.
Cutting tenons
Routing grooves for the side panels
There was a lot of tedious work involved on these four seemingly simple legs.
Test fitting the parts of a completed side panel.
As I like to say at this point in the process: "It's starting to look like something"