I have completed the top and bottom cases for a Conn. highboy. The lower half was made with wideboard tenon construction as per prior thread. The 17" wide sideboards of the lower case were tenoned into the legs with the lower tenon being glued and the middle and upper tenons being pegged. I left the top of the sideboards 1/8" short of the top of the legs: room for expansion. But when I placed the upper case on, it became immediately apparent that now I could not affix the side pieces of midmolding to the lower case except to nail it to the top of the legs which seems destined to fail with time. Should the midmolding be attached to the top case? I have made several chest on chest pieces and these all have the midmolding attached to the lower chest which then indexes the position of the upper chest. If the midmolding is attached to the upper chest are the two pieces just screwed together to keep the top from moving on the bottom when the drawers are opened?
Howard Steier
Howard Steier