I started a custom cabinet job ages ago. It began with making the carcass of the cabinet out of poplar strips. No need for plywood since this will be sandwiched between 2 other cabinets.
This week I finally got to working on the raised panel doors. I had to cut a cross section of a door the customer had that was too large and then draw the molding profile. I cut them pretty long and will trim up later.
I am waiting on the spacers to put in the rails to arrive before I trim everything and glue.
The only thing I kind of goofed on was the placement of the biscuits when I glued up the center panel. I didn’t have my final measurements at the time I did the glueing and index up with biscuits that show in spots where the curve is. Luckily the customer plans to paint rather than stain so it shouldn’t be an issue.
I used the molding toolpath in Vectric Vcarve Pro for this.
On the cribbage board? I put a hole in the top edge & made a walnut cork (tapered cylinder)
Also put a keyhole on the back so he can hang it on the wall.
Finally getting around to getting the drawers/fronts installed on my table. Used one piece, cut down the middle with some extra thick tabs to hold together for mounting, cut apart with a slim pull saw after attached. It’s hard to see, not sure if I’m going to pour some resin or paint into the Vcarve/Countour cuts. It will probably stay just like it is, its a tool. This was good practice for aligning and using center zero. Could have been shifted slightly higher by a .25” to .5”
It’s a bit hokey the way they implemented it. Be sure to organize your components in a hierarchy in the source model. So, I did Y, then moved X into Y, Z and Spindle into X. I left the table separate in the browser.
Also, it seems the “home” location is backwards in the model based on what you put in the configuration. So, I set the model to front left, then the config in the home states and it worked.
Still need to clean up the one on the right,
Both made from Walnut. One of the left was treated with Walrus Oil and the one on the right was treated with water based polyurethane.
Well done, James. I’ve never seen walnut that looked more like maple (although the grain that shows in the one on the right doesn’t look like maple.) That’s a mystery to me.
Very pleasing to look at. +1
