Maple Krenov style meets ?

Very Nice cabinet. Its almost hard to believe that all came from one board. Sounds like a fun challenge.

-- Paul Sayre Creativity is a drug I cannot live without. Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)

Really amazing to see a photo of the board next to a photo of the finished piece, Fantastic!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

wow
very nice

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Impressive!
I agree w/tinnman65, it’s hard to believe all of this came from one board, excellent effort on your part.

From an overall design/aesthetics perspective – I know why you built it with the mirror attached (for the contest), but something about the way the mirror sinks into the main box . . . . Maybe it’s just the way the photos were taken but it looks somehow fat in the middle, if that makes any sense (?).

My first impression was – “wish the mirror, with it’s great carving, was separate from the great looking and well proportioned cabinet”. Maybe that’s what it is, the way the mirror sinks into the box – to my eye – seems to be somehow throwing off the balance or proportions of the cabinet. Or maybe if the top of the mirror, where the carving is was wider (?) I can somehow see it better as a separate cabinet, with awesome tapered and curved legs, supporting a well proportioned box – accompanied by an oval mirror with very nice floral relief carving, hung on the wall just a few inches above the cabinets top.

Truthfully, it might just be the photos. Its a great piece and maybe in person where one could step back and get a better “holistic” view of the proportions, none of what I just said above would mean a #$%@.

Okay, so I changed the first pic. (I had to change them all garsh darn it). I did this to give a picture of the overal cabinet. The main pic before was taken from a low angle to show the color change in the door. I didn’t have a good picture from a distance. The total height of this piece is around 6’ 6”. I could measure but that is a lot of work right now as my tape is in the garage and my butt is in a chair. So it’s quite possible that I could get measurements tomorrow at some point. One of the hard parts about this build was the size of the board I originally got. It was very heavy. I had to have help laying it down so I could cut it down to more manageable pieces. Running the larger pieces through the bandsaw to resaw them was tough because of their length and weight. Once Some of the weight was off it was easy going. Thanks for the comments.

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AH! Much better, this first picture truly does the piece justice. From this shot the proportions of the overall piece with the mirror don’t look distorted like in the other photo. Very nice!

Look forward to seeing it in FWW! Good luck with the contest. Make sure you send in the good pic’s. lol.

Unfortunately the contest was for last year. I got to a certain point on the piece and missed the deadline. So it just sat there unfinished until now. One of these days I’ll get something into the magazine. I think I need to work on my photography skills first. LOL.

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Hi Kolwdwkwr;

Great cabinet. Too bad you missed the deadline.

That color problem when book matching maple is irritating.

Even spraying a clear finish, the results differ enough to bother me.

There are a few woods where this is more obvious than others.

Looks good though.

Lee

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Impressive piece….......... that piece should have been in FWW magazine. I like the overall looks of this piece and I like the mirror. It doesn’t look like you could get that all out of one piece of lumber….....amazing.

-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps

that is a beautiful piece. just bearutiful

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Kolwdwkwr, It is a beauty, I cant see how you got that out of one board, I would need sever board and still would not get nothing like that out of them. very good build.

-- Mike, Bruce Mississippi = Jack of many trades master of none

Beautiful work, love the cabinet, especiallly the door handle, LOL.
Is it me, the camera or a design aspect, but does the mirror and upper arms bend to the right? I have been working long hours this past week and am pretty tired, so am not sure if my eyes are deceiving me or not.
Also, did you hand cut the dovetails?
Thanks for sharing.

-- "You get what you inspect, not what you expect"

Really nice! Clean and simple lines, beautiful!

-- mtnwild (Jack), It's not what you see, it's how you see it.

Excellent.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

really inspiring design and so unusual I like this very much God Bless Alistair

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