Curvy Oak Kitchen

[JonnyD]

Hi all I have just got around to photographing an Oak kitchen I finished a few months ago. The frames and doors are all in solid european oak apart from the panels of the curved units which are oak veneer on 4 layers of 1.5mm birch ply. Carcasing is Winchester Oak MFC egger board.

Views of kitchen

Close up details. The kitchen has beaded face frames and the doors hung on butt hinges. The handles are solid pewter.

Close up of curved unit. Drawers are on Blum tandem soft close runners.

Over the other side is a larder/booze storage unit

The kitchen took about 8 weeks to make including installation.

Cheers

Jon

 

[Doctor]

Top notch, I'm impressed :lol:

 

[Karl]

Very nice Jon. 8 weeks looks like good going for that job.

I've used those handles before - did you find that they all had to be re-shaped slightly? On the ones I used, each handle had very slightly differing centres for the screws. Thankfully, Pewter is easily manipulated by hand, so it was just a case of tweaking each one.

Cheers

Karl

 

[chris_d]

Beautiful - you should be very proud!

 

[wizer]

mmmmmm I do love curves

Very pro job there. Love it.

 

[Paul Chapman]

Lovely work, Jon =D>

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[Russ]

That is a very nice kitchen... The build and finish look excellent.

 

[Sawdust]

Very nice job. I really like it.

Mike

 

[richburrow]

Real Quality work.
Nice one
Rich

 

[woodchip]

Absolutely fan-bloody-tastic.

Unfortunately SWMBO thinks so too!

Lovely work.

 

[JonnyD]

Thanks for the comments guys much appreciated.

Karl some of the handles were a little misshaped but as you say they are easy to give a tweak to pull them into line.

Jon

 

[big soft moose]

very nice work - i'll have to hide it from swimbo or get a lot better at woodwork than i am now

 

[OPJ]

Superb, Jonny!

 

[BradNaylor]

Excellent work Jonny.

The rate at which you're knocking this stuff out is awesome. I thought I was quick!

Do you work alone or have you got a team of elves there with you?

Very impressive.

Cheers
Brad

 

[Ross K]

Eight weeks is an amazing turnaround time for a kitchen like that. How many of you worked on it? I did a far lesser kitchen recently and shared the time with another cabinet maker and it took longer than eight weeks. If you say you did it on your own I won't believe you! :wink:

 

[JonnyD]

Hi Brad / Ross my Dad helps me out in the workshop when required which is pretty much full time :wink:

Jon

 

[CWatters]

Very nice work. Particularly like the bead (wrong term?) around the door openings.

 

[John C]

Jonny D beautiful work can i ask did the internal curved doors cause any problems i cant work out how that door clears the frame. cheers john c

 

[JonnyD]

Jonny D beautiful work can i ask did the internal curved doors cause any problems i cant work out how that door clears the frame. cheers john c

Hi John the internal doors are a bit of a pain to fit. The external ones arent too bad. To get the door to clear the frame you have to put a large sloping edge on the door as in this pic.

I generally get the top and bottom to fit and then keep planing the edge away until it clears the frame using the jointer and final finishing with a handplane.

Colin I usually call it a bead not sure whether this is technically correct or not.

Jon

 

[Jake]

Smart work Jonny. How did you do the curved bull-nose along the top - solid spindle-work?