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  1. 13th July 2010, 03:37 AM #1
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    Default WIP: a completed door

    The Sideboard-Entertainment Centre continued:

    Well, it may just work out ...

    Both doors are essentially done, but I have only glued up this one. I wanted to check it for strength before I wasted time on the second.

    What a tough job this was to glue up! Glueing up a rectangluar frame-and-panel is child's play compared to the balancing act I went through as a result of the curved frame. Finally it was done, and secured with tape (I could not use clamps), and I took it indoors to help the glue dry (it is Winter in Perth, and quite cold).

    Here is the finished door with a coat of oil.



    The panel is Karri and the frame is Jarrah.

    Dimensions: The door height is 23". The total height of the cabinet, including the top and legs, will be 27".

    There were a few "marks" on the panel - not figure, rather it was as if the wood was stained. This would not scrape off. I managed to align it with some figure in the frame, which I thought did a good job of distracting the attention away from it ...



    I really wish I could produce a set of drawings to explain what I am trying to create. The best I can do to give you an idea of the way the door will look in the unit (although I should say units since there is a second, mirror-imaged one being built at the same time) is model it this way ...

    Imagine that the door, which is 13" wide, is at the end of the cabinet. The cabinet will extend 6" further back (to the left). Alongside the door to the right there will be a bank of drawers 24" wide.



    My apologies for the poor lighting. The flash on the camera is all I had, and it is not great. Better pictures later.

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  3. 13th July 2010, 05:34 AM #2
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    Lovely work Derek please keep the WIP's coming
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    Nice work Derek
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    Looking good Derek - but I always knew it would.
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    I can imagine the trouble you had glueing this up. A nightmare. But beautifully executed.

    Looking forward to more pics.

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    Thanks for the kind words and encouragement. There have been times when the doors almost became the tops of chests!

    Once the other door is glued up and both meet a "stress test" (no movement when I hold up the doors from the underside of the frame), then I will move on to the carcases. If the door frames do not pass this test, I will use the panels and build the doors without a frame ... and frame the panel with a face frame instead .

    Hopefully the next set of pictures will be the doors in the carcase with face frames ready for drawers.

    Here is a plan of the whole construction:



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    Looking good Derek.
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    Lovely work Derek. Re the difficulty of gluing up the curved door frame, I used straps made from strips of inner tube for similar doors.
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  13. 15th July 2010, 11:02 AM #12
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    Nice.
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