7:00 – I repaired and sold a piece similar to this one, but in tiger maple.  The runners were grooved so badly from years of wear that the drawer faces were tilted back and wouldn’t align with the cabinet front.  I replaced the runners with maple sticks I had in my shop bin.  I chose a hardwood so they’d add years to the piece without a recurrence of the grooving.  It worked well in realigning the drawers.

Fascinating video James! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.

That was awesome!  Thanks!

Great presentation.

This was a very informative video, I like it as I like the Shaker style furniture. Looking forward to part 2.  I’ve been contemplating buying square cut nails in various sizes and brass flathead screw all just to have them.  Then, look for inspiration to make something.  Yeah, gotta get the wood too, I have more than enough hand tools just have to use ’em.

Wow,this is one of the most interesting woodworking videos I have seen,nice work!!

Fantastic review of the Shaker architecture and style.

Great vid.  This is now one of my favorite videos and will go on my re-watch again and again list.

I enjoyed this video SN. In my opinion the one thing that needs to be addressed was whether or not the shakers also had larger drawers at the top. This piece has a large drawer at the top that overshadows the rest. The shakers were very proportional and used the golden ratio often. This piece doesn’t really follow the law of progression found so often in their pieces, i.e. larger bottom drawers to smaller top drawers.

Well done. One of my favorites.

This is a great video, thank you for making it. I like all of your content, but I really enjoyed this one. I hope to see more videos like this in the future.

I have a project coming up and this will help alot. Thanks. Very informative video

great video.. I learned a lot. thank you

Nice piece and great explanation of construction except for one minor mistake. When you were discussing the top you made a comment that it may have been constructed such so it could have many things setting on it. The Shakers would never have done that. It would have been against thier very nature and beliefs to be untidy and leave things out like that could catch dust. Remember there is ” no dust in heaven ” and they were trying to have a heaven on earth. They even hung thier chairs up on wall pegs. Nothing ever ” sat out ” or ” on ” as you suggest. Other wise good job.

Very interesting, Mr. Nubs. Will you be discussing the seemingly different wood on the runner portions of the drawers?

Love the shared knowledge. Thanks for the “Wooducation”. That’s right, I’m coining that phrase…

Whoops you said they preferred form over function instead of the other way around