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12th March 2020, 03:55 PM #1GOLD MEMBER
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Silky oak antique collectors cabinet
After 12 months of intermittent effort, this collectors cabinet is finally finished. Made mostly of Northern Silky Oak, the drawer fronts are all cut from a single 4” x 4” post, resawn into 16mm thick quartersawn boards to get the medullary rays to be highlighted, and arranged to get the grain flowing together across the boards as much as possible.
The 10 drawers are lined with double woollen felt, and the knobs are polished solid brass.
The cabinet measures 455H x 430W x250D. The drawer sides amd runners are Tasmanian Oak (hardwood). Each drawer is 400W x 45H x 230D
There are small gaps between each drawer front, and between each drawer and the carcase sides to allow for expansion and contraction with seasonal variation of moisture in the air.
The cabinet and drawers are finished with 2 coats of FW Tung Oil which took a week to dry.
Many thanks to all the Forum members who contributed ideas and suggestions on how to build this, my first collectors cabinet, and who helped me overcome some difficult problems and decisions with it e.g., best timbers for runners, expansion gap sizes, tung oil finishes etc
I have put this thread in the box making section, because in reality this is just an item consisting of 11 simple open ended boxes stacked together
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Dengy
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12th March 2020, 04:39 PM #2GOLD MEMBER
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That is a beautiful piece, well done.
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12th March 2020, 05:40 PM #4Senior Member
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Nice!
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12th March 2020, 06:01 PM #5GOLD MEMBER
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There's no alternative to leaving a little space between the drawers. If you don't they'll jam.regards,
Dengy
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12th March 2020, 08:10 PM #6
I’m really impressed with the way you arranged the drawer fronts to get the grain flowing so well across them.
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12th March 2020, 08:14 PM #7GOLD MEMBER
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Thanks Chief, but there is a bit of luck involved too, especially when you are trying to bookmatch the outer surfaces of boards that were 32mm apart in the original 4x4 post. The grain can change a lot inside that width. Turned out better than I thought
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Dengy
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12th March 2020, 10:29 PM #8SENIOR MEMBER
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In a word, FANTASTIC.
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12th March 2020, 11:13 PM #9GOLD MEMBER
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Beautiful work mate. I'm stealing photos of this one for my collection.
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12th March 2020, 11:27 PM #10GOLD MEMBER
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You are most welcome to do that, John
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Dengy
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12th March 2020, 11:43 PM #11GOLD MEMBER
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Hi Joe,
Wow! That is really beautiful work. Tough enough to get one drawer to work well but TEN! It is a spectacular result and a great credit to you. I can see that the rest of us are going to have to pull our socks up! I think you said you were building this for someone else - it would be very hard to let it go.
Congratulations,
Brian
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12th March 2020, 11:49 PM #12GOLD MEMBER
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Thanks for your initial encouragement and support, Brian, you definitely helped make it happen.Yes, I made it for a friend who used to work for me back in the 1980s, and who has always collected little antiques and furniture etc. It will be put to good use.
I was talking to an Engineer with a Ph.D I used to work with and asked him how he felt about his thesis after working on it for 5 years. He told me that by the end of it all, he just wanted to drive past the Uni and throw it in to his Supervisor, he was sick of it.
There were times over the past 12 months when I felt the same if I damaged one drawer front in any way, then I would have lost a big part of the beauty of the cabinet. No pressure !regards,
Dengy
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13th March 2020, 12:44 AM #13China
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Really nice, the signs of true craftsman, I am quite partial to Silky Oak 12 months is pretty good, I am making a Tasi Blackwood occasional table for a mate as wedding present
(Oh and by the way he got married in 1985)
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(Oh and by the way he got married in 1985)regards,
Dengy
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