Poplar Painted Cabinet

[FrederickH]

Admire the Stanley 45 work/use(as well as everything else). Excellent project.

[Gerald]

That is looking fine. Are you now going to have a contest with @steven newman on how fast you can do a build?

[1fizgig]

Looking good John. Funny, I was on Pinterest last night and came across massive cabinets for crafts storage and was joking with my wife about them.

 

Look forward to seeing the finished product.

[John Morris]

23 hours ago, FrederickH said:

Admire the Stanley 45 work/use(as well as everything else). Excellent project.

Thanks Frederick!

[John Morris]

16 hours ago, Gerald said:

That is looking fine. Are you now going to have a contest with @steven newman on how fast you can do a build?

Not how fast (I got a day job, he's retired), but how clean? Bring it on!

[John Morris]

13 hours ago, 1fizgig said:

Look forward to seeing the finished product.

Thanks Fiz, I'll make more progress this weekend!

[John Morris]

Spent a little time yesterday on our poplar cabinet, I finished grooving two doors worth of rail and stile's for the raised panel doors.

 

 

I took the glued up smaller panels and joined them, and glued them up to form two larger panels.

 

I joined two edges together at the same time, you'll see two shavings coming from my jointer. This way, even if my iron is slightly off, and the edges are not square, it won't matter, all I do is flip one board 180 for the glue up, and the boards will join straight.

 

 

Two panels below, for two doors, top and bottom doors of the cabinet.

 

 

I moved on to the door frames now, I am doing haunched tenons on the rails, with the mortise on the stiles. I marked everything out first.

 

 

A little trick I learned recently, knife cut the cut lines, and chisel some waste out, before cutting the tenon.

 

 

Another trick I picked up along the way a few years back, can't remember where, perhaps on the Lie Nielsen website where I purchased the saw from, but as you cut, you can keep your eye on the mirrored reflection, if the reflection is angled, so is your cut, if the reflection is straight, so is your cut.

 

Your cut is angled right.

 

Your cut is angled left.

 

Your cut is straight.

 

With the tenons cut,

 

 

I marked out the mortises in the stiles and went to chopping with my 1/4" mortiser.

 

 

That's it for now folks! Thanks for following along!

[PostalTom]

On 3/16/2021 at 6:39 AM, John Morris said:

I am off the prednisone (Thank God!)

John, be wary of the prednisone.  My wife ended up bone on bone in both knees, and the orthopedic surgeon said it was because of the prednisone she had taken over the years for her asthma.  She wound up in a wheelchair full time before she passed.  He said it had been well known for years to cause degradation of the cartilage of the knees. Nobody told us that at the time.

[John Morris]

On 3/23/2021 at 9:01 AM, PostalTom said:

John, be wary of the prednisone.  My wife ended up bone on bone in both knees, and the orthopedic surgeon said it was because of the prednisone she had taken over the years for her asthma.  She wound up in a wheelchair full time before she passed.  He said it had been well known for years to cause degradation of the cartilage of the knees. Nobody told us that at the time.

10-4 brother, fortunately have not been on pred for sometime now, thank God! It was nasty, but in reality, it saved my life.

[John Morris]

I was building single doors, mama thought I was building double doors. 

Guess who won on that design change?

 

Grooving out four more stiles.

[kmealy]

I think now you can officially called a "galoot"   (history of this was an e-mail group 25+ years ago.  Some of the members started calling hand tool enthusiasts "neanderthals."   We wore that name with pride and eventually spun off an "Oldtools" group)

[John Morris]

2 hours ago, kmealy said:

I think now you can officially called a "galoot"   (history of this was an e-mail group 25+ years ago.  Some of the members started calling hand tool enthusiasts "neanderthals."   We wore that name with pride and eventually spun off an "Oldtools" group)

 

Gee thanks Keith!

 

galoot

NOUN

NORTH AMERICAN

SCOTTISH

informal

a clumsy or oafish person (often as a term of abuse).

synonyms:

idiot · arse · halfwit · nincompoop · blockhead · buffoon · dunce · dolt · ignoramus · cretin · imbecile · dullard · moron · simpleton · clod · dope · ninny · chump · dimwit · nitwit · goon · dumbo · dummy · dum-dum · dumbbell · loon · jackass · bonehead ·

[more]

[p_toad]

I have to laugh as that term was used by my grandfather on more then one occasion (sometimes about me).

[Cal]

Well John, I got to side with mama on this one.  I was thinking double doors all along...

[Larry Buskirk]

10 hours ago, John Morris said:

idiot · arse · halfwit · nincompoop · blockhead · buffoon · dunce · dolt · ignoramus · cretin · imbecile · dullard · moron · simpleton · clod · dope · ninny · chump · dimwit · nitwit · goon · dumbo · dummy · dum-dum · dumbbell · loon · jackass · bonehead ·

 

[PostalTom]

John, did you change your profile picture?

[John Morris]

17 minutes ago, PostalTom said:

John, did you change your profile picture?

No?

[kmealy]

But galoot was taken as a badge of honor.  See #9 https://swingleydev.com/archive/faq.html

 

So, you'll be using Dominos to join the rails and stiles????

 

 

Ted Cassidy was a fellow acromegliac. I had surgery for that two years ago this month.

Edited April 5, 2021 by kmealy

[John Morris]

2 hours ago, kmealy said:

So, you'll be using Dominos to join the rails and stiles????

Ha! Surely you jest! Mortise and tenons, the old fashioned way!

[Gene Howe]

10 hours ago, John Morris said:

Ha! Surely you jest! Mortise and tenons, the old fashioned way!

But, but, but........?