michael_schwartz
07-10-2011, 10:12 PM
I built these cabinets for my showroom a while ago but I haven't had a chance to post anything.
The boxes are frameless but with a 3/4" thick banding. Doors, applied fronts, and panels are made from local soft brown maple.
The counter top is 1" MDF veneered with flame birch which I re-sawed on the table saw. I flipped the veneer end to end to give the figure an serpentine appearance along the width of the panel. This particular piece happened to be mixed in with some 8/4 yellow birch I had purchased. I did a simple string inlay from mahogany.
The border is made from some odd pieces of 6/4 tiger maple which I happened to pull out of a bin of 6/4 soft maple, and joined to the top with domino's.
Finish is danish oil and paste wax as I built these prior to investing in spray equipment.
The doors to the left of the picture were made from the same brown maple, with Peruvian walnut accents at the bottom. I added a flame birch panel above the door frame. I almost went and bought an ordinary hollow core door from home depot but I ended up building these for less.
I milled up the molding that wraps around the top of the adjacent window and the door frame on the router table in 3 pieces using an oge, S shaped vertical panel bit, and a roundover. The wood I used for this was another odd length of tiger maple that happened to be mixed in with the regular soft maple, and a badly warped piece of butternut I had that couldn't be used for anything else, but happened to work fine for this.
The boxes are frameless but with a 3/4" thick banding. Doors, applied fronts, and panels are made from local soft brown maple.
The counter top is 1" MDF veneered with flame birch which I re-sawed on the table saw. I flipped the veneer end to end to give the figure an serpentine appearance along the width of the panel. This particular piece happened to be mixed in with some 8/4 yellow birch I had purchased. I did a simple string inlay from mahogany.
The border is made from some odd pieces of 6/4 tiger maple which I happened to pull out of a bin of 6/4 soft maple, and joined to the top with domino's.
Finish is danish oil and paste wax as I built these prior to investing in spray equipment.
The doors to the left of the picture were made from the same brown maple, with Peruvian walnut accents at the bottom. I added a flame birch panel above the door frame. I almost went and bought an ordinary hollow core door from home depot but I ended up building these for less.
I milled up the molding that wraps around the top of the adjacent window and the door frame on the router table in 3 pieces using an oge, S shaped vertical panel bit, and a roundover. The wood I used for this was another odd length of tiger maple that happened to be mixed in with the regular soft maple, and a badly warped piece of butternut I had that couldn't be used for anything else, but happened to work fine for this.