Corner Unit - WIP

[Chems]

To complete the bedroom set I've been working on over the past few years I designed this corner unit to fit in some unused space. Made to look in the same style as the Vanity Press made a few years back and to match the finish of the Bedside table and King bed. The only difference being that this time I sprayed it with acrylic lacquer rather than melamine. So may not look exactly the same colour but would be hard to match the vanity as its colour has changed nicely over the years.










The unit is finished and I will get some pictures up once its fully assembled. The best bit about it was I made it this weekend in 2 days.

 

[mailee]

Hey, that looks really good Chems. I do like corner units they are challenging. Last one I built was before I had a biscuit jointer and I made a wedge for my router to use with a biscuit cutter on the edge joints, it worked a treat. Looks like the Domino certainly speeds things up. That is some accomplishment over a weekend, well done mate.

 

[CroppyBoy1798]

Nice one! Making a pine corner unit and corner shelf unit myself at the mo', must get some pics up.

 

[flounder]

Hi Chems, I have never tried cutting a fielded panel on the TS before, although I have seen Tommy Mac cut the field in one of his videos, but that wasn't raised as yours is. To get the raised part do you trench/dado cut the raised lines first then cut the field to the inside corner of the raised panel (if you follow me!)

 

[Chems]

The first time I did it I copied TMacs video exactly, and I think I've produce the same sort of panels as he did for the blanket chest?

To do it you raise the blade to the required amount then tilt it over at around 12-15degrees. The distance from the fence to the blade will be the width of the panel edge that will go in the rebate. Then with some test cuts you can get the right height and tilt so that the teeth of the blade just nick the upper surface of the panel almost cutting through. A little clean up and its done.

I also ran the panel through the saw face down to trim a little of the angled edge off so it wasn't to wedged in the door rebate if that makes sense as I'd left the fence just a little to far from the blade.

There is a better pictorial show halfway down this page from the first time: vanity-press-finished-t30785-15.html

 

[Chems]

Handles arrived today, so fitted them to declare it almost complete. The finish is the same as the vanity next to it but the difference in using a water based vs acrylic lacquer is noticeable plus the vanity has mellowed in colour over the 2 years. Needs a coat of wax or two to equal the shine of the other unit.

Next the mirror is off to a friendly CNC machine to have a rose etched into it.

 

[OPJ]

Nice work, James. Glad to see you're now using water-based lacquers. Good progress.

 

[Chems]

TY Olly, I much prefer using the Waterbased less smells.

 

[joiner_sim]

You've done well on this one, nice finish and looks smart.

 

[OPJ]

Good also to see that you're still using you workshop and, that you're managing very well with such a 'limited' range of tools after your grand sale a few months ago...! ;-)

 

[Chems]

Yeah I've basically got not means to work with hardwoods or much routing capacity anymore. I kept the domino and table saw and my smallest router and those are the only tools I used combined with a drill.