{"id":502,"date":"2015-03-24T00:49:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T07:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=502"},"modified":"2017-04-28T17:55:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T00:55:04","slug":"cherry-dresser-lumber-prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=502","title":{"rendered":"Cherry Dresser, Lumber Prep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cherry-dresser-006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-503 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cherry-dresser-006-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cherry-dresser-006-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cherry-dresser-006-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I finished 9 pages of scaled, detailed drawings for my tall case (72&#8243; high) cherry dresser yesterday.\u00a0 Today I planed about 100 board feet of my clear, air-dried cherry lumber.\u00a0\u00a0Current retail price for American Black Cherry lumber is approx. $7.00 per board foot; up to $10.00 per board foot for extra wide.\u00a0 [one board foot = 12&#8243; by 12&#8243; by 1&#8243; thick]\u00a0 The widest boards are 13 inches wide and all are planed, both sides, to a finished dimension of 7\/8ths inch thick.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 So although I paid $1.00 per board foot for rough cut lumber direct from the West Virginia saw mill years ago, the present value of the boards in these two pictures is well over $1,000.\u00a0 After planing the lumber, I then mapped out what parts of the dresser will come from which boards.\u00a0 While all the casework will be cherry, the drawer sides\/backs will be hand dovetailed, solid white oak, and I will custom make the pulls from pure black, African ebony.\u00a0 By the time I&#8217;m finished, I expect to have upwards of 120 hours labor in the finished piece, and although I will never sell it, the retail value would be in the $4,000~$6,000 range depending on the market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cherry-dresser-004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-504 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cherry-dresser-004-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cherry-dresser-004-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cherry-dresser-004-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished 9 pages of scaled, detailed drawings for my tall case (72&#8243; high) cherry dresser yesterday.\u00a0 Today I planed about 100 board feet of my clear, air-dried cherry lumber.\u00a0\u00a0Current retail price for American Black Cherry lumber is approx. $7.00 per board foot; up to $10.00 per board foot for extra wide.\u00a0 [one board foot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=502\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cherry Dresser, Lumber Prep<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woodwork","tag-american-black-cherry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}