Fixin' Up the Bungalow

The Contest
My woodshop program at Cerritos Community College is having a contest/exhibition/barbecue…

I have till Friday night to finish my entries for Beginning Cabinetmaking and Furniture making.

So Far from the Finish
So yesterday I continued the mammoth job of finishing the carcases with three coats of Wipe-On Poly along with the insides of five drawers. I got two coats on and am about to go back to do the final coat.

Here is one pile..

And the other…

Luckily we have a spare room in the house to use as a finishing room (Yes… My wife rocks.)

Details

In order to prepare for staining I needed to make the drawer faces. These drawers are inset….

Back to the wood pile…

Here is the prime specimen… I can get all six drawer faces by resawing…

Purty!

Here are the drawer faces set in the faceframes…

Ahhhh. Continuous grain pattern…

Details… Details..

Then I needed to detail the doors and z-braces. I opted against router work since we are trying to go for a period piece. So out came the block plane for a little chamfer magic.

The end of the z-brace received a chamfer.

Softening the edge of the doors.

The best part… no dust.. just curly shavings… So quiet too.

One cup of tea and back to the finishing room I go.

Tags: chamfer, Finishing, planes

This entry was posted by Gizmodyne on Tuesday, May 15th, 2007 at 9:43 am and is filed under Cabinetry, Finishing, Kitchen. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.