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- From: ameres@ithaca.cat.rpi.edu (Eric Ameres)
- Subject: Re: Hey! Lets have a survey....
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:35:31 GMT
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- Well, I'm still working on my cabinets! (as most who've been reading
- for the past 2 months or so knows). I've finished (including
- finishing) the upper and lower cases (15 total) and am into serious
- drawer/door mode. Wish I had a jointer and planer to straighten out
- some of my stock though :( . A little warp or twist can really throw
- a door for a loop. Rail and stile (pseudo raised panel) construction
- is a bear without the proper tools.
-
- I've wound up using a modification of a recent FWW article on
- sticking for the door construction. I mitre the sticking (inside
- molded edge) and use dowel joints to pin the rails and stiles
- together. Mortise and tenon would have been the way to go if I had a
- drill press with mortising attachment (with 23 doors, I'd go insane
- doing all those mortises by hand).
-
- For those who are just tuning in. I'm doing a kitchen and bathroom
- worth of custom cabinets. The cases are frameless (Euro-style) 3/4"
- edge-banded oak using bicuit joinery. The doors are solid oak rails
- and stiles and slightly planed down 3/8" oak wainscoting. We went
- for an unstained finish with MANY coats of Park's satin Lacquer.
-
- Once I'm done with the cabinet's (and finished with the other
- non-ww'ing house renovations) I've gotta fix up my barn to house a
- decent shop, so my upcoming projects will probably mostly involve
- workbenches, stands, auxiliary tables, etc... then I can concentrate
- on furniture.
-
- Eric.
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- Eric Ameres, Software Engineer ameres@cat.rpi.edu
- New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Automation & Robotics
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - CII 8313, Troy, NY 12180-3590
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