I learned to make drawers under the tutelage of David Powell, who trained in the 1940s in his native England at the renowned Edward Barnsley Workshop, where furniture was still made entirely by hand. As a result of his training, Powell could do handwork with extraordinary efficiency and accuracy. The drawers he made were simply beautiful, each one so elegantly constructed it could have been a jewelry box. The proportions of the parts and the spacing of the finely cut dovetails immediately drew your eye and conveyed a sense of purpose and permanence. And how they functioned! They slid with a velvety smooth action and without the slightest jog or rattle.
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