Corner cupboard underway
Bill Tindall, E.Tn.
I emptied 5 lumber bays, accumulated all the cherry in one place and picked largely rift cut boards for the face framing, and quartered poplar for the triangular internal parts. This archeology expedition took a whole day but now much of the lumber rack looks tidy.
Candidate lumber is equilibrating in the shop. Triangular tops, middles and in-betweens are glued.
I got many practical suggestions on how to cut an exact replicate triangular top, bottom and middle. Considering the options I did not see that pattern cutting was quicker or more reliable when the parts involve all straight cuts that can be easily trimmed and smoothed with a plane.
I decided to temporarily glue the three parts together with a dab of glue in 3 places and the pieces separated at the glue with newspaper (makes release easy). I can kiss a line with a band saw so that seemed an easy and safe way to saw. But what blade to use?
Like many situations, the "best" blade is whatever is in the saw, unless shown to be a failure. I had not anticipate how well the 1 1/4" resaw blade would track (same blade as used on portable band saw mills). Once started it was going to go in that direction. In less than 5 min I had the parts sawed except for the "ears".
These got sawed with a hand saw. Now I am working on the vertical mitered posts. Never done an assembly like this one so there is more thinking and fretting than doing at this point.