I thought I'd share some pictures of a small cherry wall cabinet that I recently completed. This was an interesting project and required some new techniques for me:
I made a scratch stock to create the bead on the top molding as well as the bead on the back pieces. It worked well and I was impressed with the quality of the cut from a very simple tool. It was part of an old scraper blade with the shape for the bead cut with a small chainsaw file and then fitted into a scrap block and secured with a thumbscrew. It produced the beads faster than I could set up the router table and fence.
The dentil molding is composed of maple and walnut. It was a glued up lamination that was then cross cut on the table saw and ripped into thin strips on the bandsaw. A little tedious gluing the strips on. Once glued, the dentil was flattened and smoothed with a shoulder plane.
The rest of the cabinet is basic construction with a raised and fielded panel door. The carcass is secured with sliding dovetails on the top and bottom pieces and seems to make a fairly strong box. The shelves are housed in dados. It's designed to hang with a french cleat. Overall, it's about 25" in height x 12" wide x 5" deep.
The finish is Tru Oil. This is the first time I've used it. Simple to put on and after 3 applications, it left a very nice finish. Not something for a large project but a small piece like this seems to be ideal.
Thanks for looking.
Tom
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