Well its been a couple a weeks since I posted any progress on the tool cabinet, I've not been idle it has just taken me this amount of time to do the draw fronts.
There's been a few challenges on the way, but these have all been overcome.
This shows all the draws in place.
The only finish I have put on the cabinet is a coat of shellac, its on the birds eye mapel for the process of popping the grain and on the rose wood as a method of sealing it.
I have to say the cock beading was a real challenge, the main problem was getting to the stick to the mapel without using any pins etc, especially on the end grain.
On of the main reasons for using splines here is that it will add to the adhesion of the corners. Even though it's not a common thing to do I think the splines look OK.
Now that the lower cabinet is nearly finished I need to clear a space for it, I've decided that it will go on nthe wall behind the bench, this will put it in easy reach when doing bench work.
This is a a pic of the top cabinet carcass, its nearly ready to start assembling, but as I'm off on hols in a couple of weeks I'm not really sure that I'll get around to it., so stage two will have to wait until the middle of March.
Hope you all enjoy the progress to date, look forward to comments positive and negative.