Thread: Desk and file cabinet

Very nice work.

cheers....Roy

Fantastic work as ever;

What are you using for drawer runners? Are they normal heavy duty full length drawer slides but mounted on their sides underneath the drawers?

All our runners are Blum Movento soft-close under mount

Putting side-mount runners flat is not recommended; they're not designed to bear loads in that direction and will sag when open and probably fail early

Nice looking pieces!

What finish are going with?
Have you chosen the knobs and/or pulls?

Elan,

I've noticed in several of your builds you've use North American woods like Oak and Cherry.

What is the clientele perception of American woods? Are they viewed as high end exotics? Do you find them easier or harder to economically obtain than native, cabinet grade species like Red Cedar, QLD Maple, etc.?

Cheers,
Luke

P.S. Looks great!

Originally Posted by Junkie

Nice looking pieces!

What finish are going with?
Have you chosen the knobs and/or pulls?

I believe the finish will be a single pack poly with a hand-rubbed wax over it.
Handles haven't been chosen yet.

Originally Posted by Luke Maddux

Elan,

I've noticed in several of your builds you've use North American woods like Oak and Cherry.

What is the clientele perception of American woods? Are they viewed as high end exotics? Do you find them easier or harder to economically obtain than native, cabinet grade species like Red Cedar, QLD Maple, etc.?

Cheers,
Luke

Almost all of our residential projects are in American timbers (White Oak being the most popular, followed by Walnut and Cherry with a bit of White Ash), I'm not sure if there's any 'exotic' perception or if people just like it. We've also been churning through Blackbutt for some commercial jobs and it's insanely expensive; over $5k per cube, as opposed to under $3k for US Oak.

Here it is polished and delivered. The pics aren't as nice as I would have liked, but you have to work with the available light and be fairly quick with the client there - also, the boss took them, not me . Some are sideways, but opening to full size seems to rotate them the right way up.

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The brass was all sanded with a worn 120 belt on the drum of the linisher, lightly rubbed with some 240 on a block to remove the roughness, then clear coated to give a nice brushed finish. All the little clips were done with 600 wet/dry on glass. This pic is for illustration only and is from a previous job, the rail in the pic was also finished to 600; time didn't allow for it on this job, but I was quite happy with the coarser, brushed look.

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