Workshop cabinet

[mouppe]

Hello,

Today I put the finishing touches to a rolling cabinet for the workshop. The dimensions are identical to a rolling sysport I built a few months ago, so I can put the two cabinets end to end and use the TS55 on it. I experimented with a few things, such as domidrawers and I used the domino to laminate some oak panels for a sliding top shelf. It was also the first time I had built some frame and panel doors. I used Blum hinges but I did not realise that with these, the doors do not open flush with the inside of the cabinet so I cannot pull out the sliding shelf that I had put in! So I will have to add a small filler block to the cabinet insides and reattach the drawer slides. Annoying but a useful lesson learnt.

The top is 3/4" MDF sitting in a rebate which I intend to be sacrificial. However I may replace it with something more attractive in keeping with the rest of the piece. I can keep the MDF to one side if I have to use the TS55.

I was using wood left over from other projects, so the carcass is painted plywood, the doors are oak panels in maple frames, and the drawer fronts are ash. To harmonise the colour, I used a cherry gel stain over shellac base. I am going to do one more coat of gel stain leaving out the door panels.

Just a note on using festools to edge join panels. First I cut a perfect straight edge on the two oak panels with the ts55. The I used the domino to edge join them. Finally the ro125 to sand them baby-bottom smooth and the OF1400 to route a groove round the edge. I can barely spot the edge line.

Richard.

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[Rob-GB]

Lovely job Richard. [thumbs up]

I like the way the grain pattern in the drawers flows from left to right, makes this, not just practical but beautiful too.

Rob.

 

[image132]

Awesome job Richard. It's when I see stuff like this that I feel embarrassed about what I do.  [embarassed] I'm sure you saved a lot of money doing that, I know my mastercraft equivalent cost a bit.

Mind if I ask how long that took? Oh and is that carpeting in your workshop I see?

 

[mouppe]

Hi thanks for the comments. I cut the drawer fronts from the same piece of ash so that the grain would be continuous. I would say the whole piece took six weeks or so but I was only working on it from time to time.

Yes it is carpet and I hate it. But it is a 500 square foot unit in a good building owned by my wife's cousin for which I pay no rent so I can't really complain! 

Richard.

 

[ajones]

Awesome job Richard. It's when I see stuff like this that I feel embarrassed about what I do.  [embarassed] I'm sure you saved a lot of money doing that, I know my mastercraft equivalent cost a bit.

Chris When I look back at some of the work I have done many years ago, I think what was I doing?? so dont be embarassed its all part of the learning curve.
and nobody died... [big grin]

 

[DavidCBaker]

Nice work, Richard! I could see adapting that to build a flat file I have in mind.

 

[junk731]

Richard

I hate to admit that I made the same hinge / shelf mistake but I also found that Blum make hinge for the problem. It got me out of a real jam with a customer. Let me know if you want the part number.

John

 

[mouppe]

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I replaced the MDF top with a proper cherry one. I wish I had photographed the ugly knotted warped piece of cr*p that turned into the finished top thanks to a planer, a ts55, a domino, an of1400 and above all a RO 125.

When a friend of mine saw the top, he insisted on applying the shellac finish himself because it had turned out so nicely. He wanted to be a part of the project.

Richard.