Hey folks. I've been itching to build something for myself lately and finally found the time.
This is a small cabinet I'm calling a hutch because it's going in my kitchen. The upper is to store my food the middle part for a kitchen aid and a few cookbooks and the lower is for dog food and whatever else I can get in there.
The frame/doors and back panels are built out of hundred+ year old post oak that was cut down for an apartment complex. The panels in the doors and the upper and lower panels in the sides are out of a sycamore log that I was able to salvage out of a local tree removal service log pile.
I didn't want to use plywood for this so there was a bit of re-sawing going on.
To those that don't know the black streaks in the lower section of the cabinet is from metal being in the tree. The old post oak had ceramic electrical insulators attached to it at some point in it's life.
Unfortunately when this tree was milled I lost most of this section of the tree because of metal being in it. I had barely enough to finish this project so I decided to use the streaked pieces in the back and lower section of the cabinet.
No fancy joints here. Biscuits in the 45 corners, dowels for the frame and doors, and splines in the back.
The finish is brush on Deft lacquer with final finish from Deft spray cans.
Hardware is from Horton Brass. Still lacking pulls.
Critique is welcome.
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