Spring Harvest Fine Woodworking
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Spring Harvest Fine Woodworking
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Chimney Cupboard
This piece has the unmistakably simple moldings and beautiful proportions associated with shaker design. This cupboard features pinned mortise and tenon joints and coped door moldings used in the construction of the door (see photo of an unassembled joint above). Unlike modern cabinet doors, there is no glue holding this door together! The pins are not decorative, they are used to pull the tenon into the mortise. This method is known as drawbored mortise and tenon joinery. The coped door moldings allow the door to grow and shrink with humidity and the passage of time without ever showing a gap where the moldings meet. The finish for the cupboard pictured is wax, boiled linseed oil and milk paint over eastern white pine. Students will build their cupboard out of furniture grade plywood and poplar. This advanced project employs some modern power tool methods demonstrated by the instructor. In this project emphasis will be placed on:
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