Drawer front for shop cabinet

[bkharman]

I recently made a shop cabinet out of Dynasty Birch plywood which I will post when it is all wrapped up, but wanted to do something different for the single drawer that it has.  I ended up “making it up as I went along” and I think the result is really nice!  I took some of my offcuts and “sliced” them all down to 31mm using my Incra LS and table saw.

Glued, them all up… filled some of the larger voids…

After I trimmed and trued up my new panel, I cut a sliding dovetail for the drawer pull… again, I was making this up as I went along.  I had some Tigerwood left over and grabbed a nice piece for this project.

I also used a dovetail bit to route off an edge of the tigerwood in a bowtie fashion.  I sanded it all down nice and smooth and will put a drawer behind it for my CMS cabinet in my shop.

Thanks for looking!

Cheers.  Bryan.

 

[woodguy7]

Really like that look.  Look forward to seeing it finished.

 

[mike_aa]

Bryan,
That is really nice.  Well done - it look good and it's a great way to make use of the leftover plywood!

There was another thread here that had a cabinet with sides of a similar look.  The material they used comes in sheets and is called Plexwood.

Thanks for sharing!

Mike A.

 

[bkharman]

Put two coats of satin poly on it and the color in the tigerwood looks awesome. Pic is OK, but I really like the contrast in color, pattern and feel.

Cheers. Bryan.

 

[iamnothim]

That's Bad-A

Jory Brigham does that in some of his furniture consoles.

Love it!

 

[bkharman]

Thanks Luke!

I put another couple coats on and am going to build the drawer tonight.  Every time I look at it, I love the contrast more and more! 

I propped it up where it will belong to give it some definition. Can't wait to get a box behind it and promptly fill it with my CMS parts.  More to come on the finished project when it is ... Um... Finished.

Cheers. Bryan.