Thread: CD Cabinet -- WIP

Finish trimming the mortices, doing a challenging glueup, and shaping the handles.

Glueup resulted in a bit of stress, which put the brackets out of true. A few strokes on the jointer soon made them dead flat.

The shaping put a slight curve on the inside of the handles, which were glued and screwed in place.

The handles are a nice finishing touch, nice work.

Well done Drew,

I hope one day to have the patience to craft something as beautiful without murdering too many electrons.

Have really enjoyed this thread.

Zenwood, I have followed this thread with interest for several reasons. I am about to make a CD cabinet out of blackwood, I am not a darksider and have never worked with blackwood. So I have learned an eneormous amount from, I have admired your thoughtfulness in design matters, your woodworking skills and most of all your patience.

Thank your for all that, I have saved every one of yoy 200+ photos to my computer and look at them regularly, as well as a print out to pdf of the thread.

It would make a good book with a bit of a polish

Thanks again, have a greenie.

Thanks for the encouraging replies, Harry, Tankstand and Big Shed.

Here I am putting the plywood back in its rebate, and adding a french cleat. The fat lady is tuning up!

Layer upon layer upon layer . . .

G'day Zenwood,

Keep it coming, this is great stuff.

Layer upon layer, doing that right now myself. Got another 8 days of 1 coat of Danish per day on a cabinet I'm building, then I can finally put it all together.

Wipe on,

wipe off.

wipe on,

wipe off.

(Sounds like a movie I once saw.)

Wow - looking really good Zen!!

Cheers
Wendy

The completed unit can be found in its own thread here.