Wood 'n' Soul

The vanities are finished. This is an image of the guest vanity - there was a lot of glare and the wood flared off a good bit that doesn’t “reflect” reality [Yup, I intended it...].


I’ll have an image of the master vanity tomorrow and maybe some pix of the doors I’m working on.

It’s been a long day and I think that’ll do for tonight.

Here are both vanities up on my work table - ready for finishing and, of course, door installation.


Even my QA Manager likes them ;-)

I finished the drawers on the vanities today. Here is an image of the master vanity - a double pullman. The guest vanity is a single pullman with the drawers to the left - I should have some pix tomorrow. I used Accuride slides - not as good as my hand-made wooden slides, but very acceptable, and a lot faster to install. They are a much better grade of slide than one gets at the big box stores - even on their "best" cabinets.


Just waiting the final word on the finish, and I’ll put the finish coat on these and begin the kitchen cabinets.

I should also have the doors ready to go on the kitchen door and drawers project by early to middle of next week.

Ya know -- I'm making some pretty good progress here!

I got to wondering if I could make drawers using my Domino. The edges are quite precise. The M & T joints are very strong. Why not I thought. So I did. I really like them. They are very strong, well constructed and seem to be an all around good drawer. And, they were easy and fast to make. I usually use dovetails, either cut by hand or with a router and jig, depending on the project, and am quite pleased with how these drawers look and how strong the joint is and how fast they go together. I love dovetails, and they are the method of choice for high end drawers, but the Domino Drawers work very well for more production oriented projects. And the tenoned drawers look very cool.

Here is a picture of a drawer side right after I cut the through mortises with Domino. There are three different sized drawers, this on shows one with two mortises. I used up to 4 Domino tenons per joint depending on the size of the drawer.

The indexing pins on Domino made postioning the mortises easy, so I only measured and marked one of the drawers. I really didn’t need to that even, but old habits die hard.

Here you can see one of the drawers after it has been glued. A good clean joint - very strong as well.


Here is one of the drawers during glue up. One of the things I like about the Domino joints is that the tear-out issues using a dovetail jig are non-existent. Mortising the end pieces to fit the sides was really a no-brainer with the indexing pins.


Here is a stack of DomiDrawers!


This is one incredible tool! It really changes with way you build.

Next, I'll be finishing up some of the birch cabinet doors later this week - if the wood will stay still!! so far it is looking good!