It may not be taking forever, but I sure am taking my sweet time. I haven’t touched the dresser in months, and tonight I discovered that in the interim it had warped. Which is bad. I fit the back, partly to try to straighten the dresser out. I also began the process of making parts for the drawers: I made the drawer fronts and sized them.
Most drawers made these days are “overlay:” the front of the drawer, when closed, sticks out from the front of the case. For my dresser, I am flush-mounting the drawers, so that they are flush with the case when closed. Flush-mounted drawers are much harder to make, because the tolerances are much tighter, but they also look better than the alternatives.
Tight tolerances + warped case = real problem. I”m still working on a solution.
That’s woodworking: its about solving problems. Perfection doesn’t really happen, so a woodworker has to approach a project in a way that reduces the likelihood that problems will be ruinous or un-fixable. Every once in a while a project will “just come together,” but most of the time - at some point - you’ll make a mistake. Only expect perfection on the last step, allow for a fudge factor everywhere else.
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