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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)

Band sawn panels

Apparently, all my persistence with tuning up my band saw paid off. I was able to resaw my curly cherry door 8″ panels and this was the result. These should make some really nice panels.

Here are a couple of previous posts about my tuning:

Starting on the doors

Today I installed to drawer slides using a plywood spacer.

Then I cut all the parts for the doors and arranged them to make sure grain patterns work. Next I’ll make the mortise, tenons and grooves for the door panels.

Yippee Skippee! I’m having fun!

Woodworking is a ton of fun for me .. most of the time. 😀 The introduction of hand tools and the band saw to what I do has made it even more fun. Not sure I can really explain it, but there’s something about using an old tool or old technique that really makes my socks roll up and down. Perhaps its about being connected with the past and gaining an appreciation for the work that goes into making something. I don’t know.

Anyway, I’ve been trickin’ out my tool cabinet (finally!) with door tool holding racks. (No, I’m not procrastinating about the desk, I’m organizing the shop before the next big project .. OK, maybe a little. 😉 )