Lets Play

**Scally** · 3rd March 2007, 10:34 AM

Here is a darts board cabinet I have just about finished.

My daughters gave me the board last year and expected that I would be excited by the prospect about making a good cabinet.

They were not impressed at Christmas when they saw that I hadn't made a cabinet. They didn't consider all the little trinkets I had made for them through the year.

Mainly I hadn't come up with anything interesting enough.

The cabinet is pretty basic with a Heinze flavour.

The box is Celery top pine which is great to work an finish.
I tried to hand cut the dovetails. Most of the are aceptible.
I mitred the top front dovetails.

The doors are reclaimed red cedar. I shared the boards between the doors to give it some balance.
For no particular reason I added the bottom boards with a sliding dovetail, glued where the doors meet.

I bolted a pair of boards to the wall with mating bevelled boards on the back of the cabinet. It gives a solid fix and can be easily taken down.

The finish is several coats of a Danish oil and estapol mix.

The girls are coming in a couple of weeks. I hope they notice.

**ss_11000** · 3rd March 2007, 02:37 PM

cool

...hope your girls like it

**Harry72** · 3rd March 2007, 09:53 PM

Looks good Scally, well done.

**Ticky** · 5th March 2007, 10:07 AM

Well done Scally, i recon it looks great.

Steve

**Wood Borer** · 5th March 2007, 06:19 PM

Hopeless for your darts if I was playing - the brick wall .

Nice work, I like the dovetails.

**Skew ChiDAMN!!** · 5th March 2007, 06:36 PM

What a waste. Lovely workmanship, looks great... and destined to be attacked by flying woodworm the very first time I drop in.

**AlexS** · 5th March 2007, 09:23 PM

Looks good - glad to see you trying hand-cut dovetails, they don't look too bad at all.
Good match with the grain on the doors, and the mix is better than straight poly. Well done.

**Bleedin Thumb** · 5th March 2007, 10:03 PM

Very nice indeed, but tell us will you be able to watch people, even your appreciative daughters throw darts at such a fine piece without cringing?

Talk about designed artificial distressing!

**Scally** · 5th March 2007, 10:45 PM

Thanks everyone

I thought the used cedar boards would give it a used look. It did come up a bit too good to feel comfortable throwing darts at. Maybe I can fit some conveyor belting around the board to make it look a bit more rustic?

Most misses are high or low so the doors should escape the worst of the damage. I might throw a few darts at the doors before anyone else has a turn. Then it will be too late to worry about a few stray darts.

The doors now have green blackboards on them for scoring.

The dovetails weren’t too bad to cut but the I couldn’t avoid the chip out even with a fine dovetail saw.

I think I might add a couple of hand pulls to the doors. They look a bit bare.
The doors need a catch so I will put rare earth magnets at the bottom of the doors.

**niki** · 6th March 2007, 03:28 AM

Very nice work Scally

The book matching doors are beautiful, wish I could do it.

I would protect them somehow, just in case somebody will miss...

niki

**Ironwood** · 6th March 2007, 06:24 AM

Nice cabinet you made there Scally, makes the store-bought one that houses my dart board look very sad indeed.

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