This picture shows the front, the base and the shelves all fitted together. The next few pictures will show some of that process. I say some because all of the details would take an apprenticeship, typically seven years. Note: You see this wood fully dressed, that means hand planed out to finished application. The rule of my work is: all surfaces must be hand planed as originals were, on all work, and, there are no surfaces that will have modern tool marks anywhere ! I get almost all my wood from a saw mill (i.e., I go there, where ever it is, sometimes a couple of hundred miles for specialty boards, go through as many boards as it takes to get the right boards - I must see them - for the project, and this is almost always outside, mostly covered places in all seasons),
or from a vendor whose stock is inside, sometimes heated, in the rough so I can dress it appropriately to my needs. The wood here is white pine as usual in the colonies, however, Tulip wood (poplar) was prolifically used in the lower Ct. River Valley and eastern coast line for architecture and furniture, equally. >