Let's lead with the pic:
cabinet.jpg
Man, I hope that's large enough to see.
Anyway, the thing is overall rather poor compared with almost everything else on this site—but I was still riding a wave of pride for a couple days after completing it. The construction is 3x BORG pine with 1/4" oak splines. The picture is when the piece (a generous word) was still unfinished, but it's since been twice coated with some water-based poly.
The construction is all wood and glue. The splines are hand cut, which was the purpose of the project. For the splines, I used a 210mm ryoba and some used eBay chisels that I did a terrible job of readying. This project was also my first using chisels and laying out mortises. Not much info is online for hand-cut splines, so I went almost as blind as ignorant, which proved valuable. I built it all on my deck and in my kitchen with a Workmate and ad hoc clamping on the counter. I'm suuuuuper new to building save some pocket-hole stuff I've done (and am also proud of), so problems abounded. First, the unit was supposed to be about 1/3 bigger, but I messed up the miters the first time (and maybe second?). They also tore out in a couple of spots. Also, I didn't even bother with checking for square because 1) baby steps, people and 2) a lack of organization. Oh, and I had to shim a spline or two because they came out a tad too wide.
Still, I'm pretty dang happy.
If anyone has any tips on tightening up the joints, please let me know. I'd love to soak up some wisdom.