Spice Chest

I would LOVE to know more about the process used to create that effect on the door! My grandfather had something like this (maybe just like this) that he picked up in his travels via the USN. I thought it was pretty cool. Do you mind sharing and/or writing up a blog on it? I’m sure others share my interest…

-- Derrek L.

Now that’s the way to spice things up.good job Paul

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

bravo
oh how I’d love a beautiful cabinet like this for my spices.

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Very nice…great way to utilize the space. Nice job. Now you just need to put a hook on the door to hange those bananas on. :-)

-- Wayne - Plymouth MN

Great job , I need a spice cabinet too !

-- John in Belgrave ,(Slideshow http://cid-69bce320c6d8b119.spaces.live.com/ (Website) http://www.extremebirdhouse.com

Derek,

Making the serpentine spindles is time consuming, but not too difficult. For the spice chest, I used a ¾” oak board and a ¾” set of stacked dado set at ¼” deep.

First step was to cut across the board leaving 1 ½” between the notches. Since the spindles would be going into ¼” mortises, I ripped the board into 3/8” strips.

Now the fun part. First I cut a angle on the band saw to nock off the corners and then used a oscillating spindle sander to round of the rest of the corners. Final stage is to cut the spindles into two sets so that by alternating the valleys the spindles appear solid from the side. Then trim and cut tenon on the table saw.

For the Asian Print stand, since the spindles show from both sides, I used 1 ½” oak and cut the profile into both sides, but alternated the cut so that the finished spindles just need to be rotated 180 deg.to give the affect.

If you use straight grained and rift sawn, the exposed grain on the valleys will show a interesting pattern and slight curve.

-- Paul from New England "No man is a failure who is enjoying life". William Feather

Nice very nice kindest regards Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

Figured I might as well use up my 6 allotted pictures so I just cropped and sized a couple of pictures to show a bit more of the door detail for anyone interested in trying this.

-- Paul from New England "No man is a failure who is enjoying life". William Feather

Very nice, thanks for sharing.

-- masrol, kuala lumpur, MY.

Very nice. Showed the LOML and now it is on the project list.

-- Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens. -Jung