Enclosed Cherry Raised Panel Bench #5: New top and skirt!

I love Cherry. Is there any other wood that looks so crisp and neat?

Good looking cabinet.

-- Failure does not stop me, it makes me try harder..... because I'm crazy.

I agree Russ… For me hard maple cuts a super nice edge too.

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The cove molding is a nice addition and the cove profile on the top is a good match.

-- Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from poor judgement.

I must get some maple, my sawyer has been a bit lazy lately, I’ll have to get on him. He owes me a 4 inch walnut slab, and a 4 inch box elder slab for blanks. Before all that I told him I wanted him to cut me up a maple tree, which is still laying in his front yard.

-- Failure does not stop me, it makes me try harder..... because I'm crazy.

Beautiful! Good call on the cove for the top. The oak strips should stouten it up. Is it going to have feet or will that molding be on the floor?

-- " I'll try to be nicer, if you'll try to be smarter" gfadvm

I was planning on it being on the floor gfadvm. If I find it uneven I could always add some small feet underneath maybe 1/4”.

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it looks beautiful, i have to agree on the comments on the cherry, its a beautiful wood to work with and its just beautiful, i thank god all the time for such a variety of woods to work with…any decisions on the red cedar for the bottom…just tell it to me gently, im a little fragile these days..;)........grizz

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I asked that because I would have run the oak all the way to the floor so they would bear the weight rather than the trim. Or add some feet that extend 1/4” past your trim to protect it.

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Ah… good idea.. I just had some strips of oak from a long time ago that look like they’d be about the right size trimmed up a bit. Scraps you shouldn’t save and never use but I managed to find a spot for them.

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Nice job, miters and skirt. Looking really good… How fun working with Cherry!!!!

Ok I’m caught up now :>)

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Nice work and nice wood. I haven’t got much experience with cherry, but they say it burns easy while being worked with table saws and routers. It doesn’t look like you had that problem though.

-- Mike, American in Norway

Even a small router bit like the one I did the cove cut in the top with. You drop your router speed to 1-2 or as low as you need to the burning will stop. Fast turning bits are the reason for burning. You have to go slower to give it time to cut but I keep cutting down the speed until I get no burn. Now I’ve done it enough so that I can pretty much guess the speed by looking at the wood and the size of the bit. This one was set at 1 1/2 on my bosch router and it cut without burning. The bit is small and can easily handle a speed of 3 (out of 5 max) but slower stops the burn.
A table saw.. well that’s another story. At least it’s a flat cut to sand and I can always put the edge through a light pass of the jointer or use my jointer plane to remove the burn stains.

I recently finished about 30 raised panel oak doors. I’ll be posting this kitchen project when it’s finished. I used the same router bit as shown above in the first picture. That big bit has to run slow anyway because of its size, but by cutting the speed from 1 to about 3/4 I had to push it through more slowly but it eliminated burn. Sanding the burn marks out of curves surfaces that large on 30+ cabinet doors would have been an all day chore. Slowing down a bit takes longer but save tons of time in the long run.

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wow dan, just totally ignore me and my question…ok…i guess that was as gentle as it comes…well its still a beauty of a box..

-- GRIZZMAN ...[''''']

I’m not ignoring you Grizz… It’s just that the question is so important and deep that I decided to write it down in front of me and stare at it for at least one hour a day to let it sink in. I figure I’ll have a better chance of making the right decision after that.

The answer to date: I dunno yet!

;-)

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Dan, If you think cherry burns easily, try some mulberry! It burns if you even look hard at it! I found that mineral spirits makes it easier to sand out the burn marks. I’ve always heard that high sugar content is what makes wood burn easily.

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