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I am breaking the pattern of planned doors to share the completed corner cabinet. For those that don’t know, this project started 11 months ago when our daughter and I attended a woodworking show. We go every year. Sometimes we buy some antique tools. Sometimes we stock up on supplies. We always visit the guys selling wood. I have been looking for interesting chunks of wood that could be made into bookends, bowls or other small projects. Last year, we found the hunk of wood shown below.
I had no idea what I was going to do with it. It was on sale for only a few dollars. Still, why buy something that would likely end up in the woodstove? Faith sealed the deal when she said: “If you don’t buy it, you’ll get home and think of the perfect project.”
Well, it didn’t happen that quickly, but I did realize that if I hollowed out the back of the hunk of wood, it could serve as a door. I’ve shared a couple sets of in-progress photos since I started working on this. Today’s gallery has the last pictures. The cabinet was painted on the outside, to compliment the natural face of the door. The interior was finished with my favorite clear finish – Waterlox.
The one feature I want to point out today is the door pull. Throughout the project, I had no idea how I would get this door to open. Finally, I realized that I could cut a segment out of the bottom shelf and screw it to the bottom edge of the door. I’ll share a secret with you. When I drilled the holes to hide the screw heads (counterbore), I drilled them on the wrong side. I had to fill them and redrill them from the other side. In a flash of serendipity, I realized that by not cutting those plugs flush, I could achieve the spacing I needed to help carry the illusion that the door was separate from the entire shelf. I love it when things work like that. I also added a little wedge to fill one side of the saw kerf. That helps complete the illusion and wedges the door shut. The featured image today is the effort to produce that wedge.
The doorway part of this post is my favorite doorway. Either a squirrel has returned to her winter home in the park, or a new squirrel has discovered this apartment. In any case, it’s a cute as can be.
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