Wednesday, March 14, 2007
New Cabinet Doors
I’m making some new cabinet doors and drawers for some great folks down in Sebastopol. They have a beautiful custom redwood home, made back when the growth rings on the redwood were very close together -- good stuff.
We are doing the cabinet doors and drawers out of birch - very soft and creamy looking! And we’ll use, likely mahogany, for the pulls.
Here you can see the pieces after they have seasoned at my shop for a few days. I have just planned them for initial thicknessing - final will be done the old fashioned way - with my hand plane.
While I am a bit of a neanderthal, I do use the latest joining system from FesTool. We’ve become quite enamored of all the great things that Domino can do, and it is easy to lose sight of how very well and how fast it does the task of basic edge joining.
A quick pencil marking layout for Domino.
The mortises on the ends are cut using the tight setting, the interior ones using the second “loose” setting to allow for expansion and fitting.
Here you can see the pieces in the process of being glued up.
One of the joints has already been made, the other has the tenons fit in and glue applied. Note how sparing the glue is on the end tenons - we don’t want to get hydrolock and these tenons fit very precisely.
And the last frame shows the door piece in the clamps. I’ll use a chisel in about an hour to clean off the squeeze out [I was a little more generous with the glue than usual on this one].
One of the things I really like about Domino is how accurately the wood is positioned. The precision makes for really nice looking panels with a minimum of finish work.
We are doing the cabinet doors and drawers out of birch - very soft and creamy looking! And we’ll use, likely mahogany, for the pulls.
Here you can see the pieces after they have seasoned at my shop for a few days. I have just planned them for initial thicknessing - final will be done the old fashioned way - with my hand plane.
While I am a bit of a neanderthal, I do use the latest joining system from FesTool. We’ve become quite enamored of all the great things that Domino can do, and it is easy to lose sight of how very well and how fast it does the task of basic edge joining.
A quick pencil marking layout for Domino.
The mortises on the ends are cut using the tight setting, the interior ones using the second “loose” setting to allow for expansion and fitting.
Here you can see the pieces in the process of being glued up.
One of the joints has already been made, the other has the tenons fit in and glue applied. Note how sparing the glue is on the end tenons - we don’t want to get hydrolock and these tenons fit very precisely.
And the last frame shows the door piece in the clamps. I’ll use a chisel in about an hour to clean off the squeeze out [I was a little more generous with the glue than usual on this one].
One of the things I really like about Domino is how accurately the wood is positioned. The precision makes for really nice looking panels with a minimum of finish work.
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