Completed Hutch

[Ed Gibbons]

Here are pictures of the completed hutch.




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[Bruce Page]

Beautiful work Ed. Love the design and the cherry!

[Ken Fitzgerald]

I like the painted interior of this. Overall, nice design and execution! Well done Sir!

[David Lageman]

Beautiful piece Ed...really nicely done.

[Paul F Franklin]

It's gorgeous Ed, nice job!

[Richard Link]

Just marvelous work. The design, wood selection, grain matching. Masterful!

[Mel Fulks]

Agree with all. Another treatment that was used for the inside back is cloth or wall paper. Put up with tacks for easy change out. They looked for
color and brightness as well as nice wood and utility.

[Charlie Jones]

Very nice work. I love Cherry.

[Clark Hussey]

Beautiful work, Ed. Love the details

[Lee Schierer]

Very nice Ed. It looks super. Please tell us more about the finish and joinery.

[Frederick Skelly]

I like it a lot Ed. That's a piece your family will cherish for many years.

How did you make the crown molding for the top?

[Ron Citerone]

Finely built hutch right there! Nice.

[Bill Carey]

Very cool piece Ed. 2nd what Ken said - the painted interior really makes the cherry in the the upper section pop. Well done.

[John TenEyck]

Overall, beautiful Ed. I love the grain. I like the painted interior. I don't like the sapwood in those top door rails. IMO they detract from what otherwise is a very nice piece.

John

[Jim Becker]

That looks wonderful, Ed!!

[Mel Fulks]

Overall, beautiful Ed. I love the grain. I like the painted interior. I don't like the sapwood in those top door rails. IMO they detract from what otherwise is a very nice piece.

John
I would agree completely with John on a formal piece, but on a hutch , I think it’s okay. It’s my hutch hunch.... And of course a factory made
modern hutch would be “toned “ into a brown paint job.

[Ed Gibbons]

Very nice Ed. It looks super. Please tell us more about the finish and joinery.

Joinery is a combination of mortise & tenon plus dominoes (fesstool). Used dovetails for drawers.

Used router bits for window panes and shiplap back.

Made cove molding on table saw.

Finish is BLO and several coats of wipe on poly. I like sapwood in some spots because I think it gives a piece a unique look. (Besides, cherry is so darn expensive, I can’t afford to waste any.)

[Jim Becker]

I personally embrace the sapwood in pieces like this and was tickled that the cherry cabinetry in the kitchen of our "downsize" home we just moved into has sap-wood galore in the Kraftmaid cabinets.

[glenn bradley]

Very nicely done Ed. I'm another who uses sapwood as an aesthetic element. The painted interior shows off the goods and the clean lines let the crown draw the eye up. On top of that, cherry ages beautifully.

[Mark Rainey]

Ed, that is a beautiful hutch. I did the exact version a few years ago. It is a country hutch, and I agree with Mel and the others - a little sapwood gives it authenticity.

[michael langman]

That hutch came out really really nice Ed. The lighter back and the rustic cherry compliment the hutch just right in my humble opinion. Excellent craftsmanship to boot.

[David Utterback]

I agree with the previous comments on this excellent piece. Thanks for sharing.