Finished SWMBO's Easter present

[gad5264]

Last night while watching tv with my wife she said she would like to have a new cabinet for her bathroom to replace the cheap Sauder cabinet that she currently has. She uses the cabinet to house a CD player, CD's, wash cloths and bath lotions. So since I had a half a day of vacation today, and she is not going to be home until late I decided to stop and get a piece of oak plywood and see what I could do before tomorrow. This is the result of an afternoon in the garage with no interuptions. She is going shopping with her mom on Saturday so I will finish it and apply the back of the cabinet and hopefully the Easter bunny will get a nice big smile on Sunday morning.



Stained with 2 coats of Minwax "Golden Oak" and 2 coats of wipe on poly

 

[Canuck]

Re: SWMBO's Easter present

All that done in less than a full day!!!!! I just managed to saw and put together the carcase for my TV stand today. :eusa_doh: Still have to make a run to pick up some oak for the top, faceframe and trim! Your LOYL will be putting yours to use before I even start finishing mine. (Well.....us old retired guys do work sort of slow. Especially here in the south!:slap: )

By the way Grant, in another thread I was asking about attaching face frames and/or solid wood banding to 3/4" ply. It sounds like the easiest method for me would be biscuits. Do you mind me asking you how you did your faceframe on this cabinet?

Great work and progress you got there!

Wayne

 

[gad5264]

Re: SWMBO's Easter present

Canuck, the vertical stiles on my cabinet are pocket holed to the sides. If you look inside of the cabinet you can see the pocket holes which will be filled in and sanded down. The rails are just glued and brad nailed on this piece. On other pieces I normally use an edge banding router bit to cap the plywood.

 

[Canuck]

Re: SWMBO's Easter present

Thanks Grant.

I never even considered pocket holes! :eusa_doh: I will have to keep that in mind as an option.

(The guys here also mentioned the edge banding router bit set to me last nite.)

Thanks for the reply and I will have to play catchup tomorrow....after I cut grass and clean up the yard. NC springtime has me pulling out the lawn gear twice weekly now!:BangHead:

Wayne

 

[JohnsonMBrandon]

Re: SWMBO's Easter present

Not bad at all. I could never get that much work done in one day. Maybe one of these days. Nice cabinet!

 

[Wilmingtonian]

Re: SWMBO's Easter present

Another remarkable piece, Bravo:eusa_clap

 

[michaelgarner]

Re: SWMBO's Easter present

nice work bro,,

 

[D L Ames]

Re: SWMBO's Easter present

Nice looking cabinet Grant, I like your design. What finish are you going to use on it?

D L

 

[cpowell]

Re: SWMBO's Easter present

Grant, You are a work machine! I spent all afternoon in the shop and only managed to dimension and cut the stock for my next project.

I can't compete, there is no way I could work that fast without suffering a major screwup (suffered a minor one today working slow). :lol: :lol:

Guess you got your work cut out for you tomorrow, huh?

Finished project pics are anticipated!

Chuck

 

[MarkW]

Re: SWMBO's Easter present

Excellent work ! I wish I could turn out that kind of work half as fast as you do.