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When my wife asked for a couple of small linen cabinets for our bathrooms she would have settled for a basic square box with a door. I wanted to experiment with bent lamination’s and veneer. After envisioning what I wanted to build she mentioned she wanted a open shelf and towel bar. So this is what evolved.
The cabinets are twins and feature quarter sawn white oak, walnut and tiger anigre veneer.
The doors are a bent lamination using Italian bending poplar. This project was made before I had a vacuum press. I made a male and female bending form and lots of clamps. The bent lamination is veneered then cut square at the table saw using a shop made cradle type sled, then ripped in half using the same sled. The doors are then edged with walnut and carefully flushed using a flush trim bit at the router table as well as some hand tool finessing. Once the doors are made the cabinet is built to fit the doors. The top and bottom hardwood edges of the doors where made with a little extra thickness that is carefully shaved away to finesse the fit and achieve the proper spacing for the knife hinges. The case is assembled with biscuit joinery. The cabinets hang by 4 keyhole slots on heavy duty drywall anchors and or screws.
-- Express creativity with wood, Dewayne. Vacaville CA.
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22 comments so far
oscorner
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posted 422 days ago
Very nice!
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Douglas Bordner
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posted 422 days ago
Exceptional! Doors are very sweet with all the curl in the anigre. What really sets these off for me (besides the doors and nice hardware echoing the curves) are the curved tops and the edge treatment on the shelves. Everything has a sense of delicacy. Bravo!
I better show these to the wife! Instant excuse for the Roar-rocket lamination kit and other unknown and expensive tooling.
-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.
cajunpen
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posted 422 days ago
Speechless – just beautiful cabinets.
-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/
mikeH
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posted 422 days ago
beautiful peices. anigre is a real nice veneer to work with i like it alot. you mentioned bending poplar, i never heard of it, is it a plywood or solid? very very nice work
-- mjhaines
MsDebbieP
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posted 422 days ago
gorgeous. And now are you building more cabinets to match?
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dewoodwork
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posted 422 days ago
Thanks for the comments folks. Bending poplar is a very flexible 1/4” plywood. I do plan to build more bath cabinets but not necessarily matching. I like to make each piece with its own character. The future cabinets will be mirrored vanities.
-- Express creativity with wood, Dewayne. Vacaville CA.
Karson
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posted 422 days ago
Very nice cabinets. The Anigre is some great looking veneer. I’m never glued any of mine up yet.
-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com
Gary
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posted 422 days ago
Really stunning. Very nice design and execution.
Damian Penney
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posted 422 days ago
Nicely done, I love me some curves :)
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Ken
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posted 422 days ago
Handles make it!
RickInTexas
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posted 422 days ago
Very nice cabinets Dewayne. I have to agree with Ken, the curved handles accent the piece well.
-- Rick - Spring, TX
PanamaJack
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posted 422 days ago
Very, very Beautiful woodworking shown here Dewayne. Fantastic.
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wwnovice
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You do great work, Dewayne. They’re really beautiful.
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Dano
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posted 422 days ago
Very nice in deed! All of the elements complement each other and truly make for woodworkers “eye candy”
-- Dan in Central Oklahoma, Able to turn good wood into saw dust in the blink of an eye!
Thos. Angle
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posted 420 days ago
That’s some real wood work, DeWayne. Great job.
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mot
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Really amazing work! Just first class!
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Dorje
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posted 420 days ago
Wow Dewayne – really pretty set of cabinets – just gorgeous.
-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA
Mark A. DeCou
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posted 390 days ago
wonderful, too good for a bathroom though, ha.
You snuck in on me while I wasn’t paying attention. I discovered your work this morning, and I am quite impressed. Glad you are here, and sharing your passion and ideas.
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sonicchicken
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Dang, those are sweet!
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Jeff
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Very attractiv elooking peaces the curve of the door and entire box is cool looking, and they both look to be very useful.
-- Jeff B.
trifern
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posted 94 days ago
Great linen cabinets. I love the design and choice of material.
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kolwdwrkr
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posted 47 days ago
very nice indeed!
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