Not Dead, Working on the Dutch Chest

Just a small post, no I'm not dead. I've been tackling some commissions of non woodworking related projects and buried under some tasks at work. A lot of that is over with the end of the semester, and I'm getting on to some interesting work now.

I cleared out a lot of the tools I wasn't using, and have gone back to basics in a lot of ways. I've started cutting wood for the Dutch tool chest, and begun the dovetailing, I also tuned up my 3/4" dado plane and it's working sweetly. Here is the progress from the last two evenings...

Here is the first side of the Dutch chest set out and dovetailed. I've been trying to find more nice clear 1x12s at the borg but none as nice as these so far. My cutlist for the chimney cupboard from the recent issue of PWM needs about 3 times the wood of this project. So I started here. 

I never tire of this shot, for those of you that follow the blog this row of dovetails ready to be cut will look familiar.

The first dado is done, this is for the division between the till and lower compartment. I am thinking about putting a drawer in here. perhaps for all the marking and layout tools.

Tomorrow I plan to run the other dado, and cut the pins on the bottom.