Butternut Country style book case

[lou sansone]

Well done Lou!!

Did your son help with the construction?

Hi Roy

nope.... he lives on his own and is all grown up. Although he is a pretty good carpenter, he has not really shown interest in building furniture.

Lou

[Mike Leigh]

Being a newbie, and still trying to keep my butt joints square, I always wonder how all the great molding is attached to bookcases and etc. Could I ask someone to point to a tutorial or explain it?
Thanks much.

[lou sansone]

Being a newbie, and still trying to keep my butt joints square, I always wonder how all the great molding is attached to bookcases and etc. Could I ask someone to point to a tutorial or explain it?
Thanks much.

hi mike
glad you noticed this feature. I personally find putting together large moldings pretty challenging if they are not going to be painted. IMHO painted moldings are much more forgiving than natural wood molding joints ( please all you trim guys calm down !). On natural wood moldings, even a 1/32" of an inch starts to show up. Here is what seems to work best for me, and how I did the top molding here on this case

1. there are really 3 moldings built up into the final assembly
2. I joined the top 2 moldings together first and then chopped them oversize by about 1/2" ( the final cove molding is added once the cabinet is all trimmed out )
3. I like to try to position the side molding first in relation to the front one.
4. do the final trim on the first side molding and then tack it into place.
5. I often use a shorty piece to replace the front molding for the fit up on the other side piece.
6. fit up the other side piece ( I have scribed a line all the way around the cabinet ) to the front shorty piece and final trim and tack in place
7. keep trimming down the final front molding piece till it just fits and tack it into place

that is how I do it.

Lou

[Julio Navarro]

MIke, I tried to upload a pdf file that is a great resource from FWW but it wouldn't work. Send me an email address vie PM and I will send it to you.

[Scott Neblung]

There are very few pices made of butternut these days and it made my day to see this project.

Last fall I happened upon 150 bf of select butternut and snapped it up with the intention of using it for who knows what.

This project may be the inspiration I needed to revisit it.

Thanks so much for posting it.

Scott

[Martin Shupe]

Very nice, Lou, as usual. I have never tried butternut, but your piece inspires me to find some and try it.

Well done!

[Lori Kleinberg]

Very nice piece of furniture. Looks like great workmanship, too.
I have never seen butternut before. Thanks for posting.

[Julio Navarro]

beautiful book case Lou!!

[Mike Leigh]

Lou,

Thanks very much, saved your advice/instructions to a .doc file will use them as soooooon as I'm brave enough to try it.

Mike

[Rich Konopka]

Nice Job Lou !!! I see you put that pile of butternut to good use. How is the tick tock project coming along?

[lou sansone]

Nice Job Lou !!! I see you put that pile of butternut to good use. How is the tick tock project coming along?

Hi rich

I finished it a while ago and here is the link to the 18th century tall case clock
regards lou

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=38167