Honestly I loved the original drawers (not sure how that detracted from her homemade mugs) however I can appreciate the unique look and feel of the updated version with the pegs and there’s a sweetness of knowing those pegs came from your parents awesome property. It would be neat to see you use more lumber from those rotting trees, I’m sure there’s a ton of character from worm holes to color/grain variation. Definitely cost savings to use homegrown lumber and pegs except more time perhaps, depending on how you did your dovetails which I love too and of course processing a tree is a lot of labor and time but wow it’d be a blast to watch. Pls don’t push out your final drawers, I love inset and with all the character added imo it’s perfect, that may be too much. I’ve seen cool idea from another person here on YT Alexander something and anyways he does a solid wood wrap (he uses wood sparingly to give the appearance of without actually covering the entire plywood boxes as the countertops hide the rest) to give a layered appearance which stuck out further than the drawers which I get the sense when you pulled out your drawers that may be what you’re looking for. I like the texture, I also love the smooth wood but I think overall it’ll have a hand built quality to it with the textured, uneven edges. I’ve never thought about using a wire wheel so that was a neat trick. What would be really neat is trying some type of sheet metal or copper/brass sheets, the decorative kind as a base for veggies, potato and onion drawers, solid metal sheeting for a flour drawer, etc. as a way to store essentials. I’d love to see what you come up with!

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Thank you so much for your comment, I really appreciate your write-up, and you're right there's nothing wrong with the original dovetail, I just wanted to create something special for her earthenware is all. The drawers being pushed out, I was trying to see if the texturing on the edges would show through but you're right it was too much at half inch. At a shallower depth it does create a nice subtle highlight on all the top edges tho. And speaking of texturing, for the rest of the drawers, I use a restorer tool with a 3" wide wire wheel, so it's a much faster process. Thanks again for watching.