Category: curly cherry

Groovin with No. 48

I love using my No. 48 to make grooves for door panels.  When I’m making thin styles and rail (1 3/8″) I still don’t have a great way to hold the work.  If you have a magic trick, please share.  Any way, the door is starting to shape up.

Makin’ grooves in the styles.
Sneak peek at the curly cherry panel for the door.

Finishing up the doors

Door parts.
Planed to final thickness and smoothed.
Marked the bevel lines.
Beveled the edges.
Fit the beveled edges in to the rail and style grooves.
Finished beveled panel ready for glue up.
Glued panel.
Case with door set in next to the top with its final coat of finish.

Above are the steps I went through to finish up the doors.  Again the doors are simply set into place using the hinges as spacers.  I thought I was going to be able to get to the hinges today, but no luck.

Next hinges, 3 more drawers, the pull out shelf, the key board shelf and then on to assembly.  

Many miles to go before I sleep.

The doors

I used my winding sticks to make sure I remove the twist.
I used my fore plane to go corner to corner to take out the twist.
After making the grooves, I used my looong paring chisel to clean things up.
Making haunched tenons.
And then finally fitting the doors using the hinges a spaces.

This weekend I got a little bit of time to work more on the doors.  Frames are made of the straightest grain cherry I could find.  I used haunched tenons so that I could run the grooves from end to end of both the rails and the styles.

I can’t wait to see how the curly cherry panels look in these frames.

(As always you can right click on the pictures to make them bigger)