This is what I'm working on at my day job for the Anchorage school district. It's a display case. It's maple  plywood and will have maple trim, cork back, glass shelves, and sliding glass doors. 

It's 83'' tall, 91'' long and 16 deep. It will be set in to alcove in a wall. 

Nice Rich!  Man that maintenance shop of yours reminds me of the carpenters shop I worked in for 8 years at Sea World of San Diego. I sure missed that place. Great looking case work Rich, how are you attaching the glass doors?

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker
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John, the glass doors will be by-pass sliders.  We have commercially  made track that unitizes a ball bearing raceway for the glass to roll on.  The face frame extend into the opening enough to hide the hardware.  

John Morris said:

Nice Rich!  Man that maintenance shop of yours reminds me of the carpenters shop I worked in for 8 years at Sea World of San Diego. I sure missed that place. Great looking case work Rich, how are you attaching the glass doors?

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker
Proud Supporter of Wounded Warrior Project and Homes For Our Troops

Perrrrfect! What a cool cabinet, I love the bypass glass doors. The glass, 1/4" tempered I assume? How about pulls in the glass, glued in handles or molded indents for finger grabs?

Richard McComas said:

John, the glass doors will be by-pass sliders.  We have commercially  made track that unitizes a ball bearing raceway for the glass to roll on.  The face frame extend into the opening enough to hide the hardware.  

John Morris said:

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker
Proud Supporter of Wounded Warrior Project and Homes For Our Troops

You're going to need about two classrooms full of kids to move that thig!!

Nice Job!

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Lew Kauffman-
Wood Turners Forum Host

Time traveler. Purveyor of the world's finest custom rolling pins!

Actually it's not has heavy as you think considering what you see in the pictures will be placed in the alcove as is. Then the face frame, hardware, glass doors, glass shelves and toe kick will be installed on site.  There's about 3 sheets of plywood as is.   

Lewis Kauffman said:

You're going to need about two classrooms full of kids to move that thig!!

Nice Job!

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Lew Kauffman-
Wood Turners Forum Host

Time traveler. Purveyor of the world's finest custom rolling pins!

Nice looking display case Rich. Looks like you have a great place to work during the day.

Will be looking for updates and a finished picture when you get it installed.

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John Moody
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That would be my "DREAM" day job!

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Harry Brink
Bulldog Woodworking
Montana

Richard,

That's not a job you have, your still in school playing in the woodshop!

Nice looking display case.

 

Larry

OWWM Forum Host

Sweet case work. Sweet day job. 

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Gene
'The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.' G. K. Chesterton

We got the display in place this week. We took the main case, face frame and toe kick to the job site as individual pieces.  laid the case in front of the alcove where I pocket sewed the face frame and toe kick to the case and slide it into the alcove. Worked out fine. Couldn't get it through  the door in one piece thus the 3 pieces. Still have a few details to finish up and then the glass people can come do their thing.  I'll post the finial photo when it's 100% completed.

As usual I found me another job with installing this one. Notice the return air grill on the bottom left of the picture is falling off the wall. 

That looks beautiful in there! The color of the maple goes really well with the existing colors.

Richard McComas said:

We got the display in place this week. We took the main case, face frame and toe kick to the job site as individual pieces.  laid the case in front of the alcove where I pocket sewed the face frame and toe kick to the case and slide it into the alcove. Worked out fine. Couldn't get it through  the door in one piece thus the 3 pieces. Still have a few details to finish up and then the glass people can come do their thing.  I'll post the finial photo when it's 100% completed.

As usual I found me another job with installing this one. Notice the return air grill on the bottom left of the picture is falling off the wall. 

Wow Richard, that turned out great. Perfect fit, but I would expect anything less from you.

So what kind of return cover you going to do?

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John Moody
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Thanks John and Lew. The return cover will just be a matter of replacing the screws the kid have removed from the cover. Maybe some touch up work on the tile if the grill doesn't cover everything. 

John Moody said:

Wow Richard, that turned out great. Perfect fit, but I would expect anything less from you.

So what kind of return cover you going to do?

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John Moody
Site Administrator


John Moody Woodworks
http://www.johnmoodywoodworks.com

Richard,

What a great piece!  Impressive workmanship! 

SQ

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