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Family Christmas Cabinets
Dec 29, 2009
These cabinets are made of cherry and sycamore. The sycamore door panels are of note because they came from trees felled in 2005 to make way for the expansion of the Cleveland Museum of Art. I acquired the wood when it was left at the museum building site for disposal. The cherry carcase construction is done with sliding dovetails, and the doors are mortise and tenon cherry frames, with floating sycamore panels. The finish is a home brew wipe on poly (1/2 satin poly, 1/4 boiled linseed oil, and 1/4 turpentine). For Christmas this year, I gave one to my daughter, another to my son, and kept the third for our house.
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I love those! The doors are extremely cool. I love the fact that you left them natural instead of making them smaller. I'd almost hate to separate them - they look so good together. Very inspiring, thanks for posting this!!
I think the cabinets are "awesome" and will be great for conversation starters for a long, long time. I, too, love the simple, natural look. I see many different shapes in the grain, every time I study them.
Very cool! I love the "negative space", as noted above, this is very inspirational for those pieces in my shop that have a live edge. Nice work!
Those are too cool. I like the fact the doors panels are salvaged wood and have a story behind them. The cabinet design and build are simply beautiful.
Great look. I would have been afraid to do the negative space and made a smaller rectangular panel. This may give more courage to get outside the box. Thanks for sharing.
What terrific gifts these are. The design, materials, use of space and crafstmanship are all spot on. These functional works of art will be treasured for generations. Great work!
Great look!!
Similar to some of James Krenov's work.
Did you have trouble with wind on the doors? Every time I do a cabinet using knife higes and no center stile I fight it for hours.
Well done!!!!
Bill
To reply to wmmorrow: Thanks for your comment. The construction of the doors is not as exacting as Krenov's work. I read his "Fine Art of Cabinet Making" years ago, and his reverence for wood has always been with me. I use more power tools than he did, but fine tune with hand tools. I did not use knife hinges; they are brass leaf hinges, and not of the expensive variety. There is approximately a 3/32" gap top, bottom, and between the doors to allow for expansion when the weather becomes humid this summer. If they bind, it will be back to the hand plane, and a bit of refinishing!
Those are just beautiful!! The contrast between the woods is perfect. Thank you for sharing.
Dan
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