A riff on the faceted glass door

Synopsis: This bay-window sort cupboard door has a sophisticated construction of angled rails, made up of a solid-wood core with shopsawn going through. This construction, which eliminates the necessity for brief tenons becoming a member of angled items, incorporates numerous angles and aspects, and a few fascinating clamping challenges.

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Throughout my second yr as a pupil in James Krenov’s Effective Woodworking class, in 1984, my siblings requested me to create a present for our dad and mom’ anniversary. Missing time and confidence, I drew inspiration from Krenov’s V-door show cupboard, featured in his ebook The Impractical Cabinetmaker (Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. 1979, Linden Publishing, 1999). That cupboard had a single door, however I noticed that Krenov had tailored the tactic to double-doored cupboards. The formal bay-­windowed look of a two-doored cupboard appealed to me, and I questioned if I might specific the identical feeling with a single door. My door owes its existence to the strategies Jim developed.

With a fancy door like this one, I feel it’s best to make the door first and construct the cupboard to match. Right here I’ll clarify tips on how to construct the door. For a have a look at the cupboard building, see my article “The Dowel Joint,” in FWW #287.

The rail core

Every of the door’s angled rails is sawn from a single thick piece of stable wooden. This avoids the brief, weak tenons that will consequence if the rail had been made by becoming a member of three items finish to finish. Nonetheless, until you employ quartersawn inventory, the grain sample revealed by the angled sawing isn’t pleasing. Jim’s resolution was to laminate facings (skinny inventory) onto a stable core.

Start with shaping the entrance of the double-V core inventory. Lay out and bandsaw away the waste on each rails. Clamp the 2 items aspect by aspect and aircraft the bandsawn surfaces.

Utilizing a marking gauge or mixture sq., lay out strains parallel to the entrance surfaces, then reduce to the strains on the bandsaw to take away the inside waste.

Begin the cleanup of the inside of the rails by working a rabbet aircraft crossgrain on the inside corners. Broaden the preliminary cleanup by cross-planing with a block aircraft. End the inside by planing towards the cross-planed surfaces. Use a hand scraper and sandpaper to refine the within corners.

Dealing with out

The joints of the facings are butted miters. Discover the miter angle by setting a bevel gauge to a line that connects the core’s exterior and inside vertices. Minimize the facings to that angle on a desk noticed. Refine one miter on the middle going through with a aircraft and taking pictures board.

Clamp one of many finish facings to the core, aligning the going through’s mitered finish with a vertex of the core. To find out the precise size of the middle going through, butt its cleaned miter to the clamped finish piece. Mark the opposite finish of the middle going through from the core’s second vertex. Minimize and shoot that miter.

Put the middle going through in place and push the second finish going through as much as it. There ought to be no hole between the within of the going through items and the skin of the core.

Clamp the middle going through and the second finish going through in place. Pinched between the 2 finish facings, the middle now has nowhere to go when being glued. Unclamp the middle going through and unfold glue on it, taking care to keep away from the miters; then clamp.

When the glue cures, flip to the tip facings. Shoot the miter of every going through once more, shimming as essential to match the mating miter of the middle going through. After you have passable joints, you’re prepared to connect up the aspect facings.

After a 30-year profession at The Krenov College, David Welter is having fun with retirement in his residence store.

Photographs, besides the place famous: Anissa Kapsales

From Effective Woodworking #306

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