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230876 | "Adam R. Maxwell" <amaxwell@m...> | 2012‑06‑10 | project progress & question |
GGs, I'm way behind on this project of building a couple of simple cabinets for the house (big surprise, right?). So far, I've got carcases done for the pair, all using hand tools: http://maxwells.smugmug.com/Hobbies/Woodworking/23483144_SwP79b It's quartersawn red oak. The back is tulip poplar, resawn to 3/8" with an old Disston #7 and tongue-and-grooved with a Stanley #49. The beading on the back was done with a H. Chapin 1/4" center bead plane. The half blind and sliding dovetails aren't quite up to par, but will work fine. The doors will be a frame-and-panel, rectangular on the outside, but with an arched panel and top rail. My dilemma is in deciding whether to add a face frame or not, with the doors outside of the carcase. I guess I could also do something like add cock beading around the edge of the carcase and set the doors inside, so the front of the door is flush with the front of the carcase, but I think I'd screw that up. Any suggestions, particularly on how this would have been done in the old days (i.e., when everyone did this with hand tools)? Even better, any recommendations for books that talk about stuff like this? I have Brough's "Cabinet Construction" and Wearing's "Essential Woodworker." thanks, Adam Port Angeles, WA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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230882 | Kirk Eppler <eppler.kirk@g...> | 2012‑06‑10 | Re: project progress & question |
Nice use of the beer bottle for scale. I think the frame no frame decision goes with style around it, where is it going, what does the rest of your house look like, etc. I have always thought of frameless as european or more modern, framed being more traditional. So, if your house has an 1884 pedigree, I think I'd go framed. Kirk from the droid, on a beautiful day in Half Moon Bay On Jun 10, 2012 5:27 PM, "Adam R. Maxwell" |
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230913 | Chuck Taylor <cft98208@y...> | 2012‑06‑11 | Re: project progress & question |
Adam, you wrote: =========== snip ============ So far, I've got carcases done for the pair, all using hand tools: http://maxwells.smugmug.com/Hobbies/Woodworking/23483144_SwP79b It's quartersawn red oak. ===========snip ============ Those are might fine looking sliding dovetails! I seem to remember something about you making a dovetail plane out of another plane some time back. Is that what you used here? Cheers, Chuck Taylor on the other side of Puget Sound from Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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230921 | "Adam R. Maxwell" <amaxwell@m...> | 2012‑06‑12 | Re: project progress & question |
Hi Chuck, On Jun 11, 2012, at 20:40 , Chuck Taylor |
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230924 | "Adam R. Maxwell" <amaxwell@m...> | 2012‑06‑12 | Re: project progress & question |
On Jun 10, 2012, at 18:14 , Kirk Eppler |
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