Updated progress of the dresser project.  31 Dec 2014.

A very good Miter box: The Stanley #150

This seemingly simply tool found in many old garages and attics, is a long forgotten gem for a woodworker.
With the cheap manufacturing of electric miter saws used by beginning handyman, to renown craftsman, the old-time muscle requirement for a saw has long since been thrown to the wayside.

Although, if you regularly cut with a hand miter saw and using the proper technique of following carefully cut kerf lines, you can probably get away without ever needing one.  I just think the look so darn cool.   This one below was an eBay purchase for about $30.  It arrived quit rusty and well used so I decided to put in the time to fully restore this 50 year old tool.  I ordered a custom made 20" miter saw from Bad Axe Tool Works to go along with this saw.  

These drawer faces are certainly not lap glued, but are one solid piece of cherry milled to shape.  

The dresser is starting to come together. Dry fitted all the brass hardware.  Drawers and doors are all very tight fitting for now.  final plane fitting to be performed still.  Top boards yet to be made. 

Still have a long way to got on the Newport Shells.  The changing in grain direction while carving is what makes this item one of the most challenging for furniture makers.   

Finished up with the dovetails.  These drawers would function just fine for many years without any glue in the joints what so ever. 

The dresser carcus glued up and squared.

My half blind dovetails are progressing. The Leigh D24 dove tail jig, which I have, cannot make the old-time skinny pins as shown.  If you want this look, you must learn to do them by hand.