Comments

1. 
   PlaneandSimple | Jun 09, 2009 02:41pm | #1

   This is absolutely incredible! While the wood is spectacular all on its own, your use of it by leaving the door edges natural really sets it off. You've done a great job.

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   crazywood | Jun 09, 2009 03:59pm | #2

   I am into natural edge woodworking and this is a great example of using an unusual small slab to make a useful and beautiful project. Did you have any difficulty flattening the door fronts? From my experience spalted maple is notoriously hard to plane.

   Thanks for sharing Gary

3. 
   rollo1 | Jun 09, 2009 05:00pm | #3

   Thanks for the comments! Glad you like it. Crazywood: flattening the door fronts was kind of a pain. That wood was a bit funky, and after resawing the doors I used a drum sander to flatten them. I was able to finish plane only the "solid" parts of the doors, and used a scraper on the funkier sections. The drawer fronts were much more solid and I was able to plane those using a smoother with a 55 deg bed angle taking very thin shavings, and scraping on sections that didn't cooperate. In order to add stability to the doors, the chisel racks are actually a strengthening device, with some additional "decorative" ribs for added structure. That spalted maple really sucks up the poly as well.

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   3pinner | Jul 10, 2009 12:57am | #4

   This is a really cool tool chest! The only thing that could make it more interesting would be to have your wood tool handles all gnarly looking too. Kind of impractical, but it would be fun eh?

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   davidc | Jul 30, 2010 12:32pm | #5

   This is really beautiful. I am especially interested in the hinges that you are using here... They seem to be mortised into the body of the cabinet and doors but are long and the actual pins connect them quite a bit beyond the cabinet such that when you open the doors there is quite a large space between the cabinet and doors... What are these hinges?

   thanks,
   david

6. 
   Trav_Wilson | Mar 23, 2011 06:49pm | #6

   Somebody should give you an award for this ... or at least this should get the back cover of FWW. Words fail me. Lovely, useful, the mark of a true craftsman.