Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
More cabinet progress
jim_reed@marietta
>Here is the Ky cabinet base with a light oiling before finish. Sorry the picture does not do justice to the bookmatched birdseye panels. Fitted them with an Ulmia shoulder plane. Others did not like the birdseye grain. The hinges were good quality brass, but not tight enough. Hinge stores are closed on the 4th, so I gave all of them a trip to Mr. Vise. Now they are real tight.
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Don Thompson - South of Miami
>Looking good! What are you going to put on over the oil? What did you use for catches?
Dumb furniture question: What features make it a "Kentucky" cabinet? (I tried Googling this...)
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Jim in Burlington Ontario
>I like it. For some reason figured wood seems to be washed out with in the picture too much or to little light?. I'm also curious about the "kentucky" name.
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Moses Yoder in White Pigeon, MI
>That is a neat cabinet, looks like you have done quite a bit of hand work on it. The pics look fine, although I think if you were to shine a fairly bright light at an angle to the cabinet and then take a picture, trying it with and without the flash to see which brings out the best pic, you would get a lot more figure showing in your pic. This would only really matter if you were trying to sell the piece with pictures.
Some answers
jim_reed@marietta
>Thanks for the questions. I like maple oiled with boiled linseed/turp. A coat or two will mellow it out and enhance the grain. I then use spray poly. As for the catches, I think I will use some rare earth magnets. The plan calls for wooden pulls, but I am going to use brass buttons because I think they will look better with the maple. The plan is in a Best Of FWW book. It is called a KY cabinet because the designer is from Berea Ky and he adapted an old Kentucky style.
Kentucky Style
Christopher Schwarz
>We've published plans for a couple "Kentucky Style" pieces in the magazine from Warren May, a very good cabinetmaker and dulcimer maker in Berea.
The basic idea behind the style, if I have this right, is that it's a vernacular style. Kentucky 18th century cabinetmakers took city styles and simplified them in some ways (like many vernacular or so-called "country" styles). And they livened them up a bit with inlay.
In fact, May told me that the most identifiable hallmark of the style is a simple bit of inlay. He showed me a half-dozen original pieces he's collected and I think it's fair to say that the inlay is indeed the common thread that runs through them.
Also the shape of the base in Jim's piece resembles closely a lot of the touches that May adds to his pieces.
Chris
Warren May is correct
jim_reed@marietta
>What a sharp eye! This is indeed a Warren May piece. The comments about inlay intrigues me. Maybe I can find some place for such an adornment.
Another Warren May piece *LINK*
jim_reed@marietta
>Here is a link to another Warren May piece, a neat little sideboard with inlay.
Warren May sideboard
Fixed the link
Dan Donaldson
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