Not fine woodwork really, just a simple half lapped frame, some MDF cladding and some frame and panel doors, but it's a project...
This is for our front hall. The electricity meter and distribution board are rather obtrusive and the space below tends to accumulate junk, so we decided to put a little cupboard there. First thought was a corner cupboard like the one I made recently for the loo, but sketches suggested it didnt look right there, so we settled on a face frame fitted to what will look like a part of the wall when all is finished. The face frame and doors will be painted to match the internal doors.
Here's the basic structure in half lapped pine.
The face frame overlaps the side to cover the edge of the mdf panel and so avoid an mdf outside corner. Bit of tricky cutting there bacause the front door aperture is not square to the door. Like all the stone built houses around here, the aperture is tapered at about 15°. That meant that the side frame had to have its edges chamfered off at 15° too. Made it all square before thinking of that, so ended up running the whole assembly through the bandsaw with the table angled at 15°. Lots of improvised supports, but it worked well enough.
Started the doors yesterday, I thought about using my cope and stick spindle moulder set, but felt that the resulting very short "tenons" might be a bit feeble for such a large door (1m70 by 55 for the bottom one) and settled on a channel for the panel at 12mm deep, and then increased the channel depth to 30mm at the ends of the stiles to give room for bigger tenons. Grooves cut with three passes on the TS (6mm mdf panels) and the blade simply raised for the ends.
Tenons made by cutting shoulders on the TS using a cross-cut sled and stop block, then the sides cut on the bandsaw. Made a test piece in some scrap to dial in the bandsaw fence. Works fine.
Did a dry assembly to test and to run the router around the inside front to add a bit of decorative profile - had to do that before fitting the panel as there is not enough room for the router cutter bearing once the panel is fitted.
Hope to assemble the doors tomorrow.