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I guess I was a little overly optimistic. The shelves I made out of cherry, but I wanted glass in them so the light would shine through. http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...9dbff60469.jpg. I wanted a good fit with the glass recessed and flush in the shelves with no gaps. Well my router job sucked. I should've done better http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...aef4bad322.jpg I may redo the shelves. Since the glass fit pretty fush, I had to sand the sharp edges. I never done this before, and I was amazed how well it did smoothing the edges.http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...dfafe1a018.jpg. I seated the glass in the shelves and door frames with a good clear silicon rubber.http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...abceedecb7.jpg. Once the silicon dried I cleaned off the excess and stained the frames. I cut a piece of 1/2 inch (13mm) plywood for the back, and glued and stapled it on. This is the only plywood I used on this cabinet, and I used white oak for the frame underneath. I was going to glue the mirror against the plywood in the back, but I thought I would need an extra shelf support half way if there was enough weight on the shelves to make them sag. This picture is a little hard to make out. The picture was taken looking down through the top at the back plywood. The unstained cherry is in between the two mirrors. I wanted to be able to remove the mirrors if the cabinet has to be transported, or if the mirrors ever have to be replaced. http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...a6cc499e17.jpg. Same piece glued nailed and stained with the mirrors removed http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...5d9f2973b2.jpg The mirror is about 3mm thick, so I planed the cherry to 8mm thick. I setup my router table to cut the recesses for to mirrors. That was horrible! The router chipped and tore the edge apart before I understood that I had to climb cut and then finish with the proper direction.http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...3ec8eb8d5c.jpg I cleaned the edge up with a hand plane and shooting board http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...34c713fcbc.jpg. Then I went to work on the top. Routing an edge on 3 sides.http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...3bc53176cc.jpg http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...94ce1a9707.jpg. I took it into the house. It is not finished yet. I need to work on and install the shelves and the LED lights. It has not been oiled either. http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...f6041e6e85.jpghttp://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...a7d3b67ada.jpghttp://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...43ec376cc4.jpg. What kind of oil should I use?
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The end result looks good even without oiling...well done sir...
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Thank you. I have learned alot from this project, and many thanks to you all. I didn't know what a shooting board was or anything about it till I read some of y'alls posts, and it realy saved me alot of headache and work. Final picturehttp://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...1c5d179f31.jpghttp://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...db7bd0e486.jpg
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Well Roybrew, thumbs up all round. Great result and lots learned along the way, can't complain about that :)