My idea is for a standard looking upright jewelry cabinet and when you open it there are drawers in the main case and also smaller drawers in the doors themselves, this idea pulls on GaryK’s 1 box of drawers project:

except my doors will not be as deep as the main case, and will be taller then it is wide.

I sketched out my initial designs on some paper today:

From moms box

The inner cabinet will be 20” high plus the thickness of the top and bottom, 13” wide and 9” deep.

When you open the cabinet up all of the drawers will line up with each other from the main case to the door cases.

wood choices: I’m thinking about using mahogany for the main case maple for all of the drawer internals and spalted maple for the drawer fronts, I hope to re-saw the spalted maple and book match it and then make sure the length of all the drawer fronts (left door, main case, right door) all come from the same piece so that when the doors are open the grain matches up all the way across.

Next weekend I plan to put together a prototype of the main case, doors, and a few of the drawers out of mdf, I’ll let you guys know how it ends up.

This year has really flown by, My woodworking this year has been dedicated to two main items
1) Learning!
2) growing my shop space.

I have learned A LOT over the past year, and I have A LOT more to learn! I have sat up at night reading until i could read no more, surfing until I have run out of sites to surf, waiting and anticipating my favorite blogs, videos , and podcasts; and of course browsing LumberJocks!

I’ve spent quite a few hours in the shop with scrap pieces of wood, learning different techniques for cutting them, and learning to take my time and pay attention to details; I have some growing to do in the area of patience, and I’m sure that if wood working does not teach me this when I have kids it will be forced upon me :)

The shop has really grown; I’ve updated my shop profile with new pictures, and you can see a before and after slide show here:

April 2008
March 2009

Changes to the shop
out feed / assembly table
storage shelves along the back wall
rolling cabinet / planer stand
more lighting

New Tools
router table extension for the table saw
delta 13” 2 speed planer
porta cable pancake compressor and 3 nail gun set
ridgid spindal sander
ridgid shop vac
cabinet scrapers, rasps and files, router bits

Biggest Accomplishment this year?
my first finished project!

Well that about wraps it up for this years entry, thanks to all of the friends I have made here so far for encouragement, advise, and the lumberjocks addiction!

I planed the top down to just over 1/2” thick and cut it down to size and finished up the assembly:

From Valances

My miters were not perfect, so some wood epoxy and wood filler for the nail wholes did the trick.

From Valances

After giving everything a good sanding it was time for a few coats of paint, 3 coats of a spray on primer, 2 coats of white gloss enamel, and 2 coats of a gloss clear enamel

From Valances

From Valances

I still need to build one more of these, once I get that one finished and both are hung I’ll post the finished project.

I found a picture similar to what we were looking for:

The couple that I am going to build will be painted white. Normally i would start with rough lumber and process it, but because this is a painted project i went to my local box store to pick up some yellow pine as well as some molding.

It took me a while but I finally found 3 mostly straight boards in the pile, I didn’t find a crown cove modeling that i liked but i did find a piece of crown that should do the job.

First step was a quick check to make sure my table saw was setup correctly to cut down the front and side pieces, I just picked up an 8” wixey digital protractor on sale at rocker and I am loving it!

After getting these cut to size I set the saw blade to 45 deg bevel (outside bevel of 135 deg):

pieces cut to proper length and mitered:

Next was the glue up; I’m sure several of you have seen this tip before but for those who haven’t here it is; lay the pieces to glue up (inside face down) an but the mites together, then put tap on the seem, next flip the piece over and glue it as normal and bring the pieces together, the tap will act as as clamp to hold the front edge closed.

Next, I moved on to cutting the moldings for the bottom:

Thats all the time I had today, so I’ll have to finish this up next weekend.

Problems I ran into:
Even though I made sure the blade was set to 45 deg (picture above) my corners still did not come out clean, in order to get the corner joint to be 90 deg the front of the miter had a gap, luckily this is a painted project and I filled it in, but if any one has any tips they can offer me on how to get these perfect I would love to know.

The miters on the bottom modeling that I cut by putting the blade at 90 deg and using the miter gage at 45 deg came out perfect though.

Well I joined 54 days ago, so I figured it was about time I introduced myself and maybe even post a few items.

Thanks to everyone of the warm welcome!

Short Bio

I was born in Houston, Texas march of 1981—I am still in Houston(Katy) today, with the LOML.
I am currently working for BP (British Petroleum) as a software developer.

Like I pointed out on my main page I am brand-new to woodworking. Being a programmer I sit in front of a computer all day long and have little interest to mess with computers or anything else electronic for that matter by the time I get home; so I have been looking for a hobby were I can get away from it all and do something else creative—and I think I have found it.

Wait, here I am sitting in front of the computer again – ah well, I guess you can never get away from it completely!

This is a great site, with great members, I have had a lot of fun thus far looking at everyone’s projects, workshops, and blog entree’s, thanks again for the welcome!