Thread: New shed cabinet to house the growing collection of toys!

Nice looking tool cabinets.

It looks better them the 60 year old 1/2 playwood kitchen cabinets with 20 coats for white paint. One day I make some nice cabbinets for some tools, and maybe a better kitchen

getting the edges straight is ok, but clamping causes bowing or, worse, cracking: any ideas or suggestions?

Steve, (caveat I've not done this only read it) If you place a steel ruler under the join & then clamp a board along each outside edge, you then remove the ruler and clamp them using a wide scrap over the join this will 'flatten' the two pieces of veneer and create pressure on the joint, hope this description makes sense.

BTW, really like the cabinet

Mark

Thanks Derek And Mark!

I've been done some more Googling, and have found that a number of folk have recommended:
1. Get the edges straight (perhaps with a very slight hollow in the centre)
2. Some have suggested a slight chamfer edge - but I'm not convinced that this would work
3. Use a vacuum bag to pull the veneer down flat onto its supporting base

I'm still not really clear how one might apply sufficient lateral pressure to bring the edges firmly together without bowing or cracking. I sippose one possible answer may be to make the re-sawn "slices", say 4mm thick so that they're a bit more rigid, then when glued up and dry, either run through a thicknesser or drum sander - or go for it with a No8, No6 and Smoother.

I believe that this might be a solution (albeit a wasteful one), as in making a jewellery box today, I also used some of the cypress for the lid, albeit just two pieces, edged glued: no worries at all - just resawed a couple of slices, marked that wrt grain, etc, jointed then and then glued. When dry, smoothed the two surfaces and voila!

Thanks for all the nice comments!

Cheers!