If you would dovetail a Sheraton chest top How would you do it?

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Jeff L Headley

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This is period Sheraton chest with solid sides from, then, Virginia with an unusual way of covering up an earlier normal segmented dovetailed construction technique.
 

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Jeff, what's interesting to me about that picture is the chest side seems to have planer mill marks. Was this chest made at a time when it would have been planed by power?

Howard Steier
 
I knew when I posted this picture that this would be a comment. I photographed this with light coming through a Plexiglas storm window which gives the rippled shadow. All surfaces are hand planed. Sorry for confusion. Good eye though.
 
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