The carcass, shelves, munting, drawer runners, guides and dust boards are all complete.
I still need to veneer the back board, construct and shape the stand and there is also the small matter of making eight drawers. (Whose silly idea was a cabinet with eight drawers?)
We had a class outing to the veneer shop (Capital Crispin Veneers) somewhere in East London last week. Piles and piles of veneers in a huge warehouse at the back of the Galleon shopping centre - where is that??
John - Master woodworker and wise man - was very taken with the Malaysian Tiger Wood veneer... (orangey and stripey) But he managed to resist.
I came away with a roll of ice birch veneer for the doors and drawers of my magnificent cabinet! It has some very pretty grain figuring and a small amount of ripple which will look beautiful when polished up.
So tomorrow... back to the machine shop to prepare the rest of the drawer components... 16 drawer sides, 8 drawer backs, 8 drawer bottoms...
Or fashioning a set of dancey feet to stand the beast on.
We'll see.
(pic caption: The top section will have two shelves (but they're just sat on top of the drawer section for now!) the asymmetric drawers are still to be built)
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