Larry asked me about the dovetails in a PM but I'm going to reply here in case anyone else has the same question.
His question was why not a half pin on both the top and bottom of the drawer. My problem was the groove that gets cut into the front and sides for the drawer bottom. Normally a small enough pin is used at the bottom that the tail on the side will cover the groove. I put the groove fairly low which meant the half pin would have to be small. Rather than risk breaking the small half pin, I elected to not put a half pin on the bottom.
If I had been thinking ahead more, I would have put the groove a bit higher on the drawer and that would have given me more room to put the small half pin at the bottom.
According to one book I read on early American furniture both techniques were used on period furniture. But based on the questions I've received on that, I wish I had put a half pin at the bottom. It's traditional on modern versions of period furniture to have a half pin on both the top and bottom.
And to answer his second question, the two "outtie" shells are applied, but the "innie" shell is carved into the drawer front.
[Oh, and to answer your question about the curly cherry, I found that in a stack of shorts so it was standard price for shorts. But it has a lot of sapwood in it and that's why I put it on the back.]
Mike