Fixin' Up the Bungalow

The last three cabinet doors to install are the originals that I found used as shelves in the laundry room.
Here they are, stripped and in temporary place.

ProblemsUnfortunately two of the doors have significant damage and hack repairs.

Door 1: Missing chunk of breadboard

and chunk of beadboard/ breadboard at opposite corner.

Door 2: Missing corner and bad repair via metal bracket thing

The other end has the same

View from end.

Deconstruction
I pried off the ends. These types of door are really a simple construction. They are stock beadboard with wood ends nailed on. It is probably why the joints failed in some of them.



The doors just fell apart at this point. I marked the pieces and set them aside.

The nails are quite long

Broken Joint
The metal doo dads had been holding together a broken tongue and groove joint.

It fell into two pieces as I took the ends off.

Here you can see the two adjoining beadboard pieces with the broken tongue.

I ripped off the tongue and cut a new groove in each edge for a spline to hold the pieces together.

Repaired!

Grain Match

I thought about just making a patch but decided that this door needed a new piece.

I measured the original piece of damaged board.

Here is a bunch of my old growth stock of fir scraps that I use to match the grain.
I cut a new piece of to replace the damaged section and used the t-saw to cut a v-groove.


After ripping away the damaged piece I matched up the grain as much as possible. with my new piece.
I jointed and glued the pieces.


Above is the repaired piece after glue up.

Here is the piece in the context of the entire door.

I Heart Blue Tape
In the course of the repairs I ended up splintering a piece by picking it up incorrectly.
Blue tape to the rescue.

If you remember the last time I fit the doors in…..

They were all dinged up and “beyond repair.”

Well a hammer and saw later(see last blog) and they were ready to stain.

Procedure: Washcoat, two coats gel stain, shellac, poly.

FrankenHinges
Nothing comes easy around here. I knew the shape of the original hinges but could not find a supplier. So I order two different types of hinges from rejuvenation…

Check out the video of how I mixed the two hinges. Not rocket science.

Gramp’s metal vice put to good use.

The custom hinge.

Mr. Five Hour Installer
These doors took forever to install. Nothing was square!

Finished Shot of the sad doors seen above….. Wait for it….

Sweet home Alabama!

Here they are with the “new” cabinets I made.

The other side
Here is the other upper cabinet in process

No doors= bad idea = messy = I was hungry all the time looking at the food.

Shims in place. These doors are evil.

Oh yeah.

Last shot at the hinge

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