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Sunday, January 17, 2010

Cupboard Doors Underway

At long last I've made a start on the cupboard doors.  All of the overhead ones are done at least to the point where they now need to be sanded stained and varnished.  Sometime ago on this blog,  I said that it was my intention to have side hinged cupboards because they're easier to hold open.  Well once again Murphy has intervened and I find that I have not left enough room on the rear overhead cupboards for them to open sideways.  There you go, another plan foiled.  So, all of the overhead cupboards with the exception of the front one over the cab now open from the bottom.  Here are some pics of the construction and completed doors.


This is the frame for one of the front cupboards.  As you can see the trusty Kreg pocket hole jig has been used here again.  I don't know if it really needs two holes on each joint because its being held together with ply as well.




These are the doors which I have obviously completed the frames of and covered in plywood.  I used at least one straight edge of the sheet and didn't worry too much about the ply being oversize.  After I'd glued and used 15mm brads to fix the ply to the frame, I used the router (trimmer) bit to cut all of the plywood to size.




This is one of the ply being sized with the trimmer router bit.  I then used the decorative bit which  cuts a curved edge and cuts away the ply and into the the pine.  The doors all came out pretty good considering.  They are light and strong.



The pic above shows the finished doors.  I just have to sand them off.  You can see where Ive used filler to cover the brad holes.  They look quite chunky but of course are very light.





This pic is the one and only door for the kitchen cupboard that I've finished.  I ran out of ply so the rest will have to wait.  The bits of wood on the bottom are just holding it up off the floor to show how it  will sit on the cupboard.  I'm beginning to think that maybe the doors look a bit plain.  I'll have a think about how I can dress them up a bit.  Maybe some trim or a router groove on the face.  Not sure.  Thanks for reading.