were shipping out a little walnut, curly maple and ebony bar cabinet tomorrow. it went through a lot of iterations to get to the final layout ... (my client likes the design process) and it was loosely based on the proportions of the ebony cabinet we built a few years back. needless to say, it is for sure a simplified version, though almost as effective. same nice proportions and nice detail. click the photos to enlarge them ....
i know i have quite a few early sketches somewhere and ill add them when i find them.
but, basically, its a box. the sides are walnut ply set back from solid wood edges and legs. the joinery is done with our domino machine and the cabinet went together fairly quickly. the rails are mortise and tenoned into the legs and the ply panels were added after ...
the top is a nice piece of walnut about 14" wide that had a nice eye in it ...
here will is adding the edge inlay, made from big leaf maple burl and ebony ...
all done ...
the core of the door is to the left before it was veneered with shop made .1" veneer. the stack to the right is culy maple for the door panels ...
which were added after the veneer was applied and the ebony borders were installed ..
the doors are on self closing european hinges and the client selected the hardware from a supplier in her new jersey area ,,, looks great ... some of the other projects we have worked on with her are below ... seems like its been about 10 years now and she was one of the first to commission one of our single pedestal dining tables, a style that has become one of our standards ... in fact, we are working on one in the shop right now ... more on that as it happens ..
this one had some matching transitional chairs with it ...
and this one was a complex little case project ....
we did a little custom cnc work for our friend bill laberge recently. he designed a table with a 2.75" thick edge, cut on a 60 degree angle ... we had a bit that would work, but it was too small to do the work efficiently, so for a moment, we considered alternate methods ... bandsaw it with circle jig? different angle like 45 degrees? in the end, trevor found a larger 60 degree bit and the cuts were faster, very smooth and exact. bill glued up the apron blanks with the grain running parallel to the table top to minimize the effects of seasonal movement. the table has four 22" leaves. (wow...big one), trevor cut and beveled the leaves to length and bill cut the leaf apron edges on his tablesaw ... ill try to wrangle a finished photo when its finished ... i saw it mostly assembled last week and it looked pretty cool. cilck the photos to enlarge them ...
stepping cuts had to be made ahead of time to allow room for the collett that holds the bit
in the middle is the top mated with the apron piece .. very smooth and precise ...
