Between the funeral of my grandfather this week and many weddings the last number of weekends, life at church has been quite busy. Next week I'll be in Calgary all week so I thought I’d better post the finished pics of the cabinet while I have a chance.
The cabinet is 99.9% done. I have to make the shelves yet and change out the steel screws in the hinges for their brass ones. But here are several pictures to show you what it looks like finished, almost anyway.
The finish is a few coats of BLO, followed by 7 hours of fun in the sun. After that, I applied a home brew of high gloss poly, BLO, and mineral spirits. It's put on and let to sit for ten minutes or so and then whipped off with a clean rag. I really like the look of the finish. Just the right amount of sheen for this one. I'll add some wax later to give it a bit more protection. Also, I should note that I sanded all the external surfaces, except for the back, up to 600 grit.
I used leather bumpers for the doors that a local tack shop generously gave me for free. They were a bit too thick to put on the cabinet, so I recessed them in the doors.
The knobs in most of the pics are temps that I had laying around. Sat. I got my custom crafted knobs from Jim Becker. (You're great Jim, thanks a ton! They work perfectly!!!) I ended up using external spinners for this project. I decided that any other method would weaken the joint too much so I went with this option. The spinner works perfectly! The two dowels you see act as stops for the spinners.
I tried my best to match up the wood. If you look at the two doors, you can see that the top rail of the bottom door and the bottom rail of the top door are cut from the same piece with grain matching. I tried this with the stiles as well, but I didn't have enough good wood left to use the same piece for both doors so just “imagine” the grain matching up perfectly. I did manage to cut the molding from one piece for continuous grain. Also, the side molding is held on with sliding walnut dovetails.
The hinges are the extruded "precision" brass hinges from Horton Brasses.
I think that should be about it. I'll try to answer whatever questions you have, but I've gone on ad nosium already.
Thanks for viewing.