Wall hung cabinet

[Don Kondra]

Greetings,

I took a mini holiday to build a cabinet for Myself ;)

Western curly maple veneer, cherry veneer and "pitchy" cherry solids.

Oil and lacquer finish.

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Cheers, Don

[Bruce Page]

Don, beautiful work, beautiful wood, & beautiful photography.

[Ted Calver]

Don,
Lovely!!! That's a great vacation souvenir. You sure made the curl pop!!

[John Keeton]

Very nice! And, I really like the style. The maple is beautiful, and that oil and lacquer certainly was the right recipe. Great job!

[gary Zimmel]

Great looking cabinet Don.
Looks like it was a productive holiday.
Any shots of the inside?

[Andrew Hughes]

Very nice .I like the matching knobs.looks like ebony.

[Von Bickley]

Great looking cabinet...... Beautiful wood and detail, great finish.... :)

[Jeff Considine]

Beautiful! details are really nice, especially lining up the lighter shaded parts of the knobs.

[Don Kondra]

Thank you very much gentlemen for your comments.

It would have been nice to not have to worry about time but I can't afford my own work, sigh...

If this was for a paying client or I didn't have pressing commissions I would have made the following changes... ;)

On the exterior I had planned to use the center divider as an opportunity to have the handles emerge from the surface. The hand turned ebony knobs wasn't much of a compromise and I used a "normal" piece of cherry for the divider and left the marks from hand planing it to shape.

I used an older design for the top and bottom mouldings, at the dry fit stage I didn't like how the bottom double moulding looked so I ommitted it. In hindsight I would have made the top moulding as a one piece table saw cut moulding.

On the interior I would have liked to have a wood back and used a french cleat mount..

Knife hinges would have been nice but the European ones just work so well and are invisible till you open the door...

Small details but...

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Cheers, Don

[John Thompson]

I believe I saw and commented elsewhere Don. ;)

[David Gendron]

Great work, look terrific! Do you do the veneering your self?

[Steve Clardy]

Very nice Don

[Mike Zilis]

Beautiful! At first glance it reminded me just a bit of Mr. Krenov's style - not exactly in the design aspect, but in the care with which the material is used to great effect.

-Mike