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    First a few sketches were done and this is the sketch that received royal assent.

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    Then it was necessary to select timber. This is the timber chosen for the doors of both cabinets.
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    Construction will be veneers over lipped MDF, so no allowance for wood movement is necessary.

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    holey moley, one look at the veneer and I knew it was for girly things
    I would love to grow my own food, but I can not find bacon seeds

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    Broke my Resaw King blade cutting those veneers. Just as well I had a Lennox blade in reserve.

    I think the weld developed a crack at the back of the blade, because when I put the blade back on the machine the drift had changed a fair bit, and then it proceeded to get worse until the blade broke. The Lennox is a tad wider, but cuts very well and is much less expensive. I'll order another to ensure I have a veneering/resaw blade on hand when the current blade gives up the ghost or needs sharpening.

    I got nine veneers from that slab. Sanded thickness is 2.1-2.2 mm. Now to cut the veneers for the sides and top of the cabinets.

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    Dressed some timber and made the components for seven web frames today.

    Also glued the veneers to the sides for the cabinet. Finished thickness of the veneers is 2 mm.

    Photos to follow ... after I have taken them.

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    Web frames glued and assembled. All seven are close enough to identical.

    Web Frames.jpg

    In the background of the pic can be seen my drop saw with arms extended. This is a favourite tool because it allows me to cut a bunch of components to an identical size. I love it to death, especially when cutting components for web frames, drawer components and similar.

    Almost finished cutting the mortises to assemble the web frames with the sides. Tomorrow is already a busy day, so assembly will need to wait a day or two.

    Assembly can be fiddly with decent sized jobs, especially when there are this many web frames involved and when I am working alone. Considering assembling by gluing up and then using pocket screws to clamp the frames to the sides. Will exercise my mind around this and other options for the next day or so.

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    Carcass assembled.

    I clamped and pocket screwed each web frame as it was assembled. Worked a treat, especially as I was working alone. Better still, once assembly was complete I checked the diagonals and the cabinet was square within less than a millimetre. That'll do me. Didn't even bother putting a diagonal brace on to pull it into square.

    Carcass Assembled.jpg

    The top and bottom web frames are fastened to the sides by floating tenons in timber, not MDF, as the sides were lipped with 25-30 mm of timber.

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    Going to our farm this evening, so took a break from the girlie cabinets to do something far more important.

    For the past three years our dunny at the farm has been a shovel and a roll of toilet paper. However, Her Indoors likes to come to the farm, and was not keen on the long grass tickling her nether regions, so a solution was necessary.

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    As you can see, the selected solution is a sawdust thunderbox. Here she is checking the ergonomics. Thankfully, the thunderbox passed inspection.

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    Now she wants a shower!

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    We built a dry composting toilet. Its just a big plywood cube basically with a toilet lid on top and a long bit of down pipe out the back to ventilate it. Worked a treat and the poop all but dissappears, turns into compost, only needs to be emptied every couple of years.

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    Very little progress has been made, apart from making and fitting the legs, as seen in pic.

    Legs on.jpg

    But then, another delay occurred ...
    Shoe Rack Commands.jpg

    And here it is, a simple MDF unit lacquered white. Fortunately, Her Indoors likes it.

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    As I put the shoe rack into the built in robe, I recall thinking it might take a while to fill it.

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    There are twenty pairs of shoes in this pic, and another pair outside the pic, beside the black boots in the bottom left corner. Imelda lives at my house.

    All is well. Her Indoors loves her new shoe rack. Brownie points well topped up ... for now.

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    Drawers made. Start on the doors tomorrow.
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    Some of my cedar was not good quality. I had some twisted, cupped, warped and otherwise crook boards. They were cut into short lengths between 0.5 and 1.2 M for dressing, but even then their finished thickness was only 16 mm, which is still OK for drawers, so the crook boards weren't a complete waste.

    Doors will be push to open, so there is no room for drawer handles or knobs, so grips were cut of of the fronts and rounded over.

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    I screwed up.

    Put a warp in the corner of one door when it was in the vacuum press for laminating. Stupid mistake.

    Heated that corner with a heat gun, pulled it back into place, plus a little to allow for spring-back, and clamped everything into position. Tomorrow I'll know if it has worked.

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    There is good news ... and bad news.

    Heating the warped corner and clamping it in place worked wonderfully, so I hung the doors.

    Then I discovered that when the tops of the doors were flush, the right hand door stuck out by 2 mm at the centre bottom. The heat gun came back out, clamps were applied and John's U-Beaut Wood Bending Service went back to work. Took Her Indoors to Surfers whilst the timber cooled.

    It worked. All that remains before lacquer is applied is to make a lid for it and to finish sand everything. This is followed by a fit-out of the top section with mirrors and a glass shelf, and a jewellery box.
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    Finish sanding done yesterday, and lacquer applied. Cabinet now complete except for the fitting of mirrors etc to the top part of the cabinet. However, we are off to the farm today, so that will wait until next week.

    Finished Cabinet.jpgFinished.jpg

    Next week will also see the commencement of a matching chest of drawers.

    This feels like a good time to thank all those at this forum who have helped me to develop my shop and my skills in the past ten years. My work has improved out of sight since I came here. There are too many to name, but I must single out for thanks a few who have contributed significantly; Ian (Canada), Wongo, BobL, Chris Parkes, Pete (PJT) and Auscab (Rob). There were many others. Thanks too to the Benevolent Dictator who owns this forum.


    Thanks guys. I have a good dust collection system and my work has improved greatly because of your selfless contribution.

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