all right now let's work on the top in a little more detail so the first thing i'm going to do is add an inside chamfer to the case and i think that this is going to help the case to feel more cohesive with the rest of the design which i would say skews more towards the elegant side of things and i just feel like the original cabinet's a little bit chunky looking and actually let's talk about the case in more detail so in joe's original design he's got this big gap here to the far ends of the two drawer fronts and i'm guessing that those act as a way to open the cabinet now typically for the sake of function unless you have some really slidy drawer slides you're going to want your drawer pulls much more towards the center of the drawer otherwise things are going to want to bind but i want to stay true to the original design so i'm not going to just slap on a handle in the center or anything like that but i am going to get rid of the gap and we're going to use these live edge and circular facade pieces as handles instead so the way that we're going to do that is by adding a back bevel to them so that there's something that your fingers can grab onto in order to pull the drawer open and i've never done this exactly but i've done similar drawer pulls i think a good example was on the built-ins that we made a few years back at my parents house where we did a rabbit to create a ledge and i know it's kind of hard to see in this picture but all that is to say it's similar functionally and it works pretty well all right so i'm gonna work on the final design here but i have one more big design change that i'm gonna sit on for a minute because i want joe to see the more normal changes first and then we'll spring the most drastic change on him during the reveal and i guess while i'm drawing let's cut back in time and shoot the poo with joe how long have you been woodworking almost a year now okay so you're pretty new to it still yeah i mean i've always kind of like built stuff but as far as like i didn't buy my first table saw until christmas last year okay so not even a year of like hardcore woodworking yeah i i said this to you when you first submitted the design for this i was like oh man like your piece isn't bad like i don't want people to get the wrong idea of this of that your original starting point was bad it's actually pretty good i was worried going in that it wasn't bad enough and that there wouldn't be enough you know meat on the bone for me to fix it or whatever i do want to say that that so that people don't think that we're just like ripping this thing apart and actually like overall i'm being nitpicky so like if i had to say anything it was kind of that like wearing your pants up to your nipples kind of feeling or whatever that it gives me which like yeah even when i was looking at like examples on like west elm and other websites like they all kind of still looked high-waisted
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