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My first hanging wall cabinet - that isn't shop furniture. I emulated a couple different plans I found from FWW. Here's some specs:

23.5"h, 11"w, 7"d
- knotty cherry, walnut pulls, beetle kill pine for back and drawer bottoms
- federal blue milk paint with dewaxed shellac on top
- Watco Danish Oil - 3 coats
- dewaxed shellac for all interior parts
- hidden cleat in back for hanging

Plenty of firsts for me on this project, which I always like:
- first time using milk paint - I love it and plan to add color to more of my projects in the future
- first time making solid wood drawer bottoms - these drawers are small and I made the bottom thicker than it needed to be - next time I will scale it down
- first time making a bridle joint for the doors
- first time using only an oil finish - so easy to apply - we'll see how she holds up, should be alright as this will only see light touches
- first time using a gouge to carve out the finger recess for the drawer pull - now I need to learn how to sharpen them!!

Thanks for looking!

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Seriously love everything about this cabinet, inspiring.
 

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Looks great. Even the blue fits in good.
 

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Great looking cabinet, nice use of some cool wood, the blue works.
 

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Nice work taking some risks and venturing into new things. The exterior wood looks great. I like what you did with the vertical pull on the interior drawer. Thanks for showing the layout lines and how you did that.
 

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Really beautiful! You got all the details right. Bet if feels good to have learned all those new things. Great project. I really like the knotty cherry… Kind of inspires me. I'm so used to thinking of knotty stuff as junk, but I guess that's just not true! I have some knotty cherry in my pile of cherry, come to think of it!
 

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Very nice looking piece sir
 

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You did everything right in this project. The dovetails, draws and the ever difficult inset door. Great work. Keep them coming.
 
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