Necklace Cabinet
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I made a cabinet for my sister. I haven’t given it to her yet but I figured I could show you guys.
It is based on the wall clock, with the major difference being that the rails and panels have been moved to the back and there’s a door on the front.
Wood is the local stores version of Mahogany, so I think it is Sapele. I ripped up some maple to form a bookmatched panel in the back.
The top and bottom panels have a very slight curve along the length. It may be hard to see.
The door panel was mortise and tenoned with 1/4″ mortise in the 3/4″ stiles. I watched the toolchest videos lots of times while doing this. It was very hard to get everything aligned.
The glass pane in the front is held in with 1/4″ x 3/16″ strips. The door itself is sized small for the given opening to give a shadow effect. I put a magnet catch inside the cabinet and routed out for a small metal plate to serve as the latch. I didn’t put an handle on the door. Instead I chiseled out a recess at the top left of the door and on the side of the cabinet for a finger pull.
Finish is about four coats of thinned out shellac. Thankfully this time I had no runs. Topped it off with some wax
I hope to put up some pictures I took along the way and some more detailed shots.
Thanks for reading.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.21 November 2014 at 2:44 pm #121297Jude, i’m sure she will love it ,just goes to show how these projects we do can be swapped to me our individual needs, great job
I want to share some more photos of how this cabinet went together. So, here’s a play by play.
I started off by making some mock-ups.
First up was to get a rough size of the cabinet. The idea was to make it tall enough on the inside to take a 20″ chain folded in half, so about 12″ or so.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.I found then that the cross rails just got in the way of hanging a chain so I chose to do away with them and just fill up the space on the front with a full-height door.
On the back I decided to put some cross rails and a panel, like we are shown in the clock making project.Attachments:
You must be logged in to view attached files.I didn’t know if I would use a sheet of plywood or not for the back as I had a piece of 3/4″ maple left over.
I set about ripping it up to make it bookmatched. I started the cut with a table saw and finished it off with a rip hand saw.
I then planed the edges down so that it would slide into a groove in the cross rails.
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