Can a Face Frame by Sexy? (w/pics)

[David Eisan]

Hello everyone,

I have been working on two vanities for our house.

Here are two sheets of prefinished 3/4" maple ply cut into parts,



Assembling one of the vanity carcasses, I am using a scrap of MDF cut to width to ensure the middle part is aligned correctly,



Both carcasses assembled and some rough cherry waiting to be dressed,



My setup for running the beading on the face frame stock,



The faceframe material with bead(s). I also ran all the rail and stile material,



One of the face frames built and laying out for the second one,



My jig for notching out the bead on the face frame,



The bottom of the jig,



I ground off the bearing post from a 45º champher bit.

Random shot of me working,

[David Eisan]

Kick notched,



I used my SCMS for the crossgrain cuts and raised my TS blade though for the "rip" cut. I finished off the straight cuts with a jig saw and cleaned up the circle with the OSS,



Here is the end panel for one of the vanities,



A shot of both face frames assembled,



When my wife was looking at the face frames, she looked at me kinda weird when I called the finished face frames "sexy". I throw it out to my peers to see if such a thing is possible.

NB: Make sure you have safe search turned on if you search for "sexy vanity"... DAMHIKT!

The drawer fronts and doors will be inset. I hope to make them this weekend.

Thanks for looking,

David.

Every Neighbourhood has one, in Mine I'm Him

[Tim Thomas]

I would say "yes". Those look great to me, and with cabinets the face frame is one of the few things that people can see when you are finished. So yeah, face frames can be sexy and these are sexy as h-e-double-hockey-sticks. Smoke 'em if you got 'em...

[Douglas Brummett]

Dead sexy! Nice job

[Mike Goetzke]

I really like the notched-beaded ff's. Any way you could take a close up and/or provied a few more details on how both vertical and horiz. members are trimmed?

Thanks for sharing,

Mike

[Dewey Torres]

It will be sexy...er once you get the doors and finish on it!

Nice work!

Dewey

[Walt Caza]

Hi David,
Another great thread with plenty of pics from you.
Your vanities are looking good.
Your wife can rest assured.....those are definitely sexy!
I like that you used stop cuts as much as possible to keep the straight
parts good and straight, and pleasing to the eye.

Sweet details, be sure to keep us updated of progress.
Thanks for giving us a peek,
take care,
Walt

[John Schreiber]

That's a great looking set of face frames, but if you guys think they are sexy, you need to get out of the shop more often.

[Brian Penning]

That's a great looking set of face frames, but if you guys think they are sexy, you need to get out of the shop more often.

Whew!! Couldn't agree more! Er...with both points.
Jeez! what is the world coming to when face frames are labelled as sexy....heavy sigh....shaking head...and by a fellow Canuck too!!

[Doug Shepard]

... she looked at me kinda weird when I called the finished face frames "sexy".
...

Little Tip - Gals dont like it when their guys ogle the curves on somebody else while saying words like sexy. Other than the little marital faux pas, the face frames look very sweet.

[Richard Wolf]

Sexy? Nice work though.

Richard

[George Sanders]

If your wife thinks those beautiful, excellently joined face frames are sexy then more power to her. You have definitely scored a bunch of points with her so more power to you.

[William Nimmo]

How long are you married? She told you they were sexy.
I would take it, that you did such a beautiful job, you earned yourself some points to be used later in the day. Go make sexy time, and then get back to your shop.

[Mitchell Andrus]

That's a great looking set of face frames, but if you guys think they are sexy, you need to get out of the shop more often.

Ditto.

BUT.... Na, not.

[William Nimmo]

Just re read your post and your wife looked at you weird when you called them sexy. Still think you might need some time away from the shop.
Nice job though.