Cabinet

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roger lance

Wow....that's a very attractive cabinet......it shows an advanced level of skill in it's making.....congratulations....well done.

A suggestion on the fragile, slim dovetail bits.....try routing with a thin straight bit first to remove the bulk of the waste; then, route with the dovetail bit. This should help reduce the strain on the dovetail bit.

A tour de force!

Ellis Walentine

Nice work, Svante. I've been puzzling over how you went about creating the relief in the doors and drawer fronts. What a fine mystery. I can't imagine routing and chiseling all those reliefs. Would you mind explaining? And what sort of ash is that?

Also, I was curious to note that you used the Woodrat. I met with Martin Godfrey, the inventor of the Woodrat, when he first launched his new invention. We test drove it in our shop at American Woodworker and were duly impressed with how accurate and versatile it is. Regarding those fragile bits, sometimes the best approach to using bits like those is to first remove as much material as possible with a straight bit, and then follow up with the dovetail to clear out the angled corners.

Great work. Thanks for sharing.

Ellis Walentine, Host

Re: A tour de force!

Svante Nilsson

Thanks a lot.

The doors are cut to be book matched. Each bord is ripped with bandsaw into 7/8 thinner strips with different width. The strips are jointed and then routed to three different thicknesses, sanded (that is tricky) and glued together. Although the ash has a wivid grain it is difficult to see that they are glued strips.

The drawers has similar approach, but they come all from one board.

I do not use the Wood rat jig only their router bits. I have made a jig similar to the incra but have insted a linear digital scale to position the cuts.

The ash is from Sweden. The last 25 years I have been searching for very old ash trees that have a darker core. I dont know if its true, but I have been told that ash growing in sandy soil develop this color/grain (sometimes called olive ash) when they stop growing, when they are 100 years or so....

Forgot to mention that the cabinet is untreated.

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Clint Searl

A most handsome piece that elevates (pun intended) an otherwise mundane box from the boring ordinary by the inclusion of texture in the matched doors, proud dovetails, and ebony wedges. Outstanding design. A pleasure to view.

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Virgil Johnson

Very nice work.

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Howard Pollack

Beautiful and imaginative! -Howard

Several great design elements here!

Chuck Nickerson

I don't like directly copying designs but I'm saving photos anyway, at least for inspiration.

Since I live on the lip of a canyon, dusting *all* those small horizontal edges would be brutal.