Tool cabinet for lathe
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I wanted to try making a pair of inset doors and needed a cabinet for lathe tools, so I built this. It is clear why people build with face mounted doors and six-way hinges. You can adjust out error with them, but the traditional method leaves little wiggle room. I’d like to see Paul extend his door series to explain how he’d handle small imperfections. I ended up with between 1/64 and 1/32 twist, which is visible in a pair of doors hung side by side, no post separating them.
The doors have junk 3/8-ish ply for the panels. They had furry stuff sticking up, voids, etc., but I handled that in the finishing step. I learned you can use Paul’s panel raising method on ply, but in this case it’s not to raise a field, but to fit the ply to the groove, which was 1/4″ in this case. The show face is flat and the bevel is toward the back and is developed until the panel fits the groove. I wouldn’t do this unless painting, probably.
The black shelf liner is impregnated with vapor corrosion inhibitor.
The hinges on the bottom panel are a bit atypical. I want to make some boxes to slide into that little shelf and don’t want the door to be in the way. In other words, if you hinged that door in the normal manner, then when fully open, the hinge knuckle would be above the bottom of the shelf, which I didn’t want.
The door fitting is fine enough that closing one door puffs out the other. When summer comes, I’ll likely need to take a shaving or three off the center stiles.
Oops…Just noticed from the photo that I forgot to trim the shims. Without the shims, the doors were a disaster. Good on the bench, a mess on the wall until the back of the cabinet was shimmed relative to the wall.
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