Mark Mazzo
02-28-2003, 10:33 AM
Hello all,
This is my second piece of real furniture and my first picture post. I have done a bunch of shop stuff, a bookcase for my son's room and some small things like boxes, but this is my most significant project to date.
The design is from an old Woodsmith magazine (I don't recall the issue, but it's somewhere between #85 and #90). The joinery is all mortise and tenon with frame and panel construction for the sides of the case. I modified the dimensions to fit the space that it sits in and I used standard tenons rather than the through tenons that the design called for. The piece compliments a Stickley computer desk that sits adjacent to it in our study. The case is actually pretty large, it is about 44" wide 59" tall and 12" deep.
The wood used was all 4/4 Cherry (most of it started out roughsawn). The "legs" or tall parts of the frames are 4/4 stock glued up because I could not find 6/4 or 8/4 Cherry stock at the time. The panels are back to back 1/4" Cherry ply that float within the frames. The back is also 1/4" Cherry ply. The top is solid Cherry glued up and held on with Cherry clips and screws in elongated holes to account for movement.
The doors are also mortise and tenon construction with a rabbet in the back for 1/8" tempered plate glass to fit into. I made little Cherry clips that mount with brass screws to hold the glass into the rabbet. The mullions in the doors are half lapped together and are set into the rabbet so that they sit over the glass but are flush with the outside of the doors. The knobs on the doors are hammered antique brass from Woodcraft.
The finish is Tried and True Varnish/Oil rubbed out with paste wax and 0000 steel wool.
Thanks for looking,
Mark
This is my second piece of real furniture and my first picture post. I have done a bunch of shop stuff, a bookcase for my son's room and some small things like boxes, but this is my most significant project to date.
The design is from an old Woodsmith magazine (I don't recall the issue, but it's somewhere between #85 and #90). The joinery is all mortise and tenon with frame and panel construction for the sides of the case. I modified the dimensions to fit the space that it sits in and I used standard tenons rather than the through tenons that the design called for. The piece compliments a Stickley computer desk that sits adjacent to it in our study. The case is actually pretty large, it is about 44" wide 59" tall and 12" deep.
The wood used was all 4/4 Cherry (most of it started out roughsawn). The "legs" or tall parts of the frames are 4/4 stock glued up because I could not find 6/4 or 8/4 Cherry stock at the time. The panels are back to back 1/4" Cherry ply that float within the frames. The back is also 1/4" Cherry ply. The top is solid Cherry glued up and held on with Cherry clips and screws in elongated holes to account for movement.
The doors are also mortise and tenon construction with a rabbet in the back for 1/8" tempered plate glass to fit into. I made little Cherry clips that mount with brass screws to hold the glass into the rabbet. The mullions in the doors are half lapped together and are set into the rabbet so that they sit over the glass but are flush with the outside of the doors. The knobs on the doors are hammered antique brass from Woodcraft.
The finish is Tried and True Varnish/Oil rubbed out with paste wax and 0000 steel wool.
Thanks for looking,
Mark