Some of the 3/4" Birch plywood pieces that have been cut to size. Two 4x8 sheets of 3/4" plywood and one 1/4" sheet of plywood for each unit.

Gluing QSWO (Quarter Sawn White Oak) edge banding to some of the removeable Birch plywood shelving components.

Applying QSWO edge banding to the carcass sides.

Edge banding is applied before dado's and rabbetts are cut.

Assembling the Birch plywood carcass parts. Lots of 3/4" dados and rabbetts!!

Wish I had a BIGGER shop for projects like this!!

One of the finished plywood base assemblies.

These puppies are going to be HEAVY!!!

Special glue-up jigs designed to keep the QSWO edge banding perfectly centered on the Birch plywood.

Machined QSWO banding stock. Need edge bevels, and then ripping to final width (7 face bands required for each cabinet).

Starting to glue the QSWO face frame banding on the Birch plywood edges.

Notice how the special glue-up jigs I built yesterday are used.

Here you can see how the glue-up jigs keep the oak banding accurately centered on the plywood edge.

Face frame oak edge banding is all installed.

Next steps are to build the oak side panels and top.

Milling 1/4" centered grooves in all the oak side frame assembly members.

Will hold the 1/4" oak side panels and the rail and muntin tenons.

Bad hair day!!!!!!

Milled stock (grooved) for all 4 side panel assemblies.

Tenons need to be cut on the rails and muntins, and 1/4" panels need to be milled.

Test fitting a side assembly (no panels yet).

Note curve in the bottom rail and how the tenons hold the parts together in the grooves.

Resawing QSWO panels.

Resawn panels will be planed and sanded to fit the grooves in the sides and doors.

Pulling the final few inches of resawn panels through the band saw.

Another bad hair day!!! Got to start wearing a cap when I get my picture taken!

Resawn panels .. if you look close you can see the bookmatch effect.

Bookmatching the panels should look nice in the frames.

Pre-stained panel inserts ready for assembly into side frames.

Side frame assembly glue-up. Pre-staining the insert panels keeps an unstained area from showing on the edge if the panel shifts later.

Gluing the completed side panel assemblies to the plywood carcass.

Side panel assemblies installed on one of the two base cabinets.

Ready for tops, doors, and drawers.

Each top will consist of four QSWO pieces.

Veritas panel clamps used to keep the top pieces flat during the gluing process.

Gluing the crest rail to the top.

Tops have been sanded smooth, corners rounded, and the bottom edge has a 1/4" bevel.

Base chest assemblies with completed tops and crest rails.

Cabinet doors and drawers are next.

Completed cabinet door assemblies.

Door and top installed.

Lots of hand 'tweaking' required to get the doors to fit properly.

5/8" maple drawer pieces rough-cut to size. 12 drawers required.

Drawer face will be quarter-sawn white oak.

The drawers are FINALLY done! This took a lot more time than I expected.

All the basic woodworking is now completed.

Next steps .. completely disassemble and do all the final sanding, apply the finish .. then finally move them into the bedroom (and start designing the matching dresser!).