Thread: display cabinet

Good to have you posting again - must mean the weather is warming up for you. Looking forward to watching this progress.

ajw

Originally Posted by jow104

I havent been posting for a while on this forum but have not been absent entirely, its just that winter in the UK was quite hard for some of us the past 6 months.

I was wondering where you were John, thought that you had been carted of for illegal skipdiving.


Peter.

Good to see you back John.

Thanks for the welcome return.

Peter, if you visited our waste collection site and touched anything you might get sent down for 3 years. Its unbelievable there is a dogsbody standing by each waste skip at site with a notice board and they can also fine you if you use the incorrect location. Also you are only allowed 6 visits a year.

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I got in two sessions today.

Started by cutting mortises on router table, set up stop blocks both ends and dropped timber on to running bit and pushed along to the stop to create the length of mortise. Did two passes on each cut in rotation.
Blocks marked with crosses on picture. I did have a problem setting distance from fence to cut mortises because I eyeballed the cutting position but it has worked out well.





Cut tenons on my table saw using a sled.



One tenon I over cut so had to glue some cheeks back on and recut. (I should have used a test piece to set blade height)



Side frames dry assembled and my stress on the project as been released.



Door for front (slighter narrower) also dry fitted.




I have now got to decide to cut off one of the dado sides to accommodate glass.
I would like to use the router freehand after the sides and front have been glued up, but not being an experienced router user I would ask how to proceed with the cutting directions, I know there is something about rotor blade direction for safety. So please advise.

Welcome back. This makes a change from tissue boxes? They say a change is as good as a holiday... I shall follow with interest.

Robert

Nice to be back.


OK, I cut off the glass rebates on the router table using blocks to restrict cut to required lengths. However my accident of the season, I removed the straight router bit to exchange for a larger cutter and when removing the bit stuck in the collet and my fingers ran up the exposed blade because the cutter did not come free of the collet and ouch!.



However sticky tape only required and I carried on and glued up the two outside frames (and also the door frame) as per picture.



Then came to a stop, temperature went over 80far again but humidity is less than 50%, lovely. That should do the workshop stock and equipment some good.

Good to see you thawed out and back in action John!!

Neat little project to get you started. Sorry about the thumb.

I normally do the same thing when setting jointer cutters. Occupational hazard I guess.

Nice looking frame.

Robert

Popped into the W/S late afternoon and tidied up the frames.

Cut corners square ready for 2mm glass.
Also cut off horns, but I do have a problem, one of the narrow top cross pieces must have moved when being glued up. Then I cut off horns without noticing and now I have one frame which is short. I am going to hang door on the outside of the frame instead of inside hoping I can ######## my way out of this boo boo.

Originally Posted by jow104

Peter, if you visited our waste collection site and touched anything you might get sent down for 3 years. Its unbelievable there is a dogsbody standing by each waste skip at site with a notice board and they can also fine you if you use the incorrect location. Also you are only allowed 6 visits a year.

John, just as well I don't live there then.

Actually I'm running short of useful white melamine boards so this afternoon I went for a drive to my roadside shopping centre and got a carload of boards, all good and useful when the edges are cut of and re edged, for a total cost of a bit of time and petrol.

BTW the direction of freehand routing is the opposite of the direction of your Triton router table.

Peter.

Cleaned up the frames, got some 2mm glass cut together with a mirror in readiness for the long weekend forthcoming and set the frames in position.
I am happy at the moment with the door frame being slightly less high it should mean the door opening and closing in its frame more comfortable.



Then set up my bandsaw ready for another season and did a test cut, eyeballed the centre cutting line of some black walnut and got a perfect cut. I think that bandsaw blade supplied by Ian must now be in its fourth season.



Prepared a top moulding for display case with that black walnut, however I shall have to plane off the lip of moulding because the timber edge is subject to break off.



So looking forward to another session tomorrow after this feed up. A neighbour brought in a feed of mackerel, the first of this years catch from Torbay.

Ahh, the fishfishfish display case look good

I am awaiting instructions on hanging of the display cabinet (its location and method) so I had a vacant slot in my W/S but decided to make a tissue box for some Australian visitors arriving in Devon shortly (10 days time).

So dug out this slab of maple and cut off two slices on the bandsaw.



Found some off cuts of black walnut.



and prepared to strips 10mm thickness.



Studying the Exif information on timings of pictures above I see that the above took place over a period of 1 hour 3 minutes.

Went back in the workshop after the wedding, tidied up my workbench found all these lovely pieces of offcuts put them in a transparent container and they will be used I hope for another box in the near future.




In the meantime an email has arrived giving me carte blanc on hanging of display cabinet which is now to be designed. I then glued up the strips prepared in the morning ready for working on today making sides of tissue box.

Back to the display cabinet after some thinking time.

Completed the top and bottom plate, used some black walnut and an oak ply centre infill.



I put all the timber items and glass on to some scales and with the trophy it is going to weigh over 5lbs. nearly 2 kilos. Decided that the present frames of the cabinet were not substantial enough to bear its weight when hung in a hall at it intended home. Therefore I decided to make an additional back frame in oak 35mm x 16mm as the picture below.



Normally I would rip the oak used on my tablesaw but because the bandsaw was in such a good mood and saved changing the tablesaw blade I ripped as per picture,



Then was able to cut tenons on my tablesaw without having to change the blade.



Mortises were cut by hand using my 55 year old mortise chisel ( which had a resharpen and grind for its first time in many years on you know what. (T7)



So I am now approaching the glue up stage for all items and wondering :