Shaker Wall Cabinet in Cherry

This is such a nice project and it looks like great craftsmanship!

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

This is another beautiful project -

It also looks a bit aged…how long has it been finished?

Does the Minwax finish you used have a stain component? Is that the “antique” part of the mix?

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

Dorje: The cabinet was built in the spring of 2006, but I didn’t get any finish on it until this spring. It spent most of the time in my basement shop, so any aging is just normal cherry oxidation and not from sun exposure. Minwax Antique Oil finish is basically a tung oil/varnish/thinner mix and doesn’t have any stain or dye that I know of. It’s hard to come by now (not exactly sure why) and I’ll probably just mix my own in the future.

Thanks for the follow-up…

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

This is a beautiful piece! I like the simple clean design and crisp craftsmanship. Cherry is one of my favorite woods!

How cool to spend some time with Glenn for a class!

David

-- http://foldingrule.blogspot.com

Very nice piece. It would be nice to take a class from Glen. I really like his work.

-- Thos. Angle

My my, that cherry looks fantastic. Nice job.

-- Stevethepeeve -- I'm no rocket surgeon

Beautiful piece!

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

Very nicely done! I’m surprised that nails were used with the shiplapping. I thought that the purpose of the shiplapping was to allow for wood movement without there being any gaps. A dado cut in the top, bottom and sides to accomodate the thickness of the lapped boards would have allowed them to float and the use of nails would have not been needed. Please, let me know if I am wrong in my thinking, because I don’t have the benefit of a class, just articles in woodworking magazines and books. It is a beautiful piece! How did you cut the raised panels?

-- Jesus is Lord!

Another great piece. The craftsmanship puts it over the top. Just wonderful.

-- Better to say nothing and be thought the fool... then to speak and erase all doubt.

oscorner: the back boards are just lying in a 1/2” deep rabbet, if there were more depth to the cabinet, I guess we could have just trapped the boards in a dado, but the depth is only about 6” overall. The outer boards are only nailed near the middle of the board allowing both edges to float. I probably should have cut the center board in half instead of leaving it whole, but I didn’t have any more width left to do that. If it does eventually split due to the cut nails, I’ll pull them and replace it with a two board replacement.

The raised panel was done on the tablesaw. I believe it was a 12 degree angle on the bevel. We then cleaned up the edges of the raised portion with another pass flat over the saw with the blade up just 1/8”

Nice shaker cabinet. Change the first sentence in your project description. You call this a clock.

I like the grain on the two boards on the left the sap wood that follows the same curve.

Nice chest. Great job.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Karson: thanks for noting the typo, I’d copied from the clock project to get the link and stuff and missed that part.

The sapwood curve was a happy accident, but it does look nice.

Great old classic design, this turned out very well.

-- Bob A in NJ

Very nice. I especially like the knob as lock detail.

-- Chelle http://artsgranddaughter.blogspot.com

gotmarko – thought you might like to see Karson’s version which popped into mind:

here it is

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA