I would like to make my daughter an outdoor buffet server cabinet. Five feet wide with three cabinet doors and no drawers. The cabinet will live on a covered porch about 8’ deep so it won’t get wet much. It will get a lot of direct sunlight.
for the top, I would like to do copper sheet. I will bend the copper and solder the corners. I’m assuming that I can find some roofer willing to sell me a piece of copper sheet.
1. Should I go ahead and bend the copper again to cover the underside? Just enough to extend into the carcass. So the user would not see any wood.
2. What wood? The inflexibility of a copper top sort of demands a very stable wood. I’m thinking marine plywood.
3. What glue? This thing is going to face south and get direct sunlight. If it was inside, I would think that contact cement would be fine. Should I go with an epoxy? Or maybe some sort of construction adhesive?