WIP Bathroom cabinet completed

[Woodmonkey]

My better half has requested a bathroom cabinet, so a few hours on sketchup produced this:

Last time I was in Yandles I picked up some nice boards of Tulipwood, because a) never used it before, and more importantly b)they were cheap. Also I have seen Norm using it on new yankee (they call it poplar over there) and according to him it stains/ paints very well. Made a start today on the side panels and I have to say it cuts/ planes very nicely. Have all day in the workshop tomorrow so should make some progress.

 

[gasman]

I did not know that tulipwood had heartwood that colour - thought it was pale all the way through. That second photo it looks a bit like english walnut?? Looks nice grain though
Cheers
mark

 

[Grahamshed]

That is a nice looking plank. I also thought it was a pale wood.

 

[Woodmonkey]

Yes it looks darker in the photo than in real life, it has a greenish hue to it. I may decide not to stain it, I will have to do a few test pieces. That large board was only £20 it's 2.4 metres long and over 400mm wide.

 

[Woodmonkey]

Made a bit of progress today on this, trying to do three things at once so didn't get as far as I wanted, but managed to get the side sections glued up.

 

[Wouldchuk]

Looking good - keep it up.

I've found Poplar was great to work with - it's straight-grained and relatively soft, so easy to machine and sand etc. It sands up super smooth and takes paint really well - I made my kitchen cabinets and drawers from it and it finished really well - i'd worried it wouldnt be hard-wearing enough but It's holding up well.

The colour of poplar can vary from quite vivid green, purple, brown streaks - it's not so rich and in my opinion, while its quite interesting to look at, it looks a bit dirty - I'm not sure i'd go for a non-painted finish with it - although next time I come across one of those interesting multi-coloured planks I may experiment and see what its like once fully finished.

I've got a bloody huge stack of it having ordered it by the board from TimbMet thinking they weret 2m long boards, only to end up receiving (and sadly paying for) 3m lengths....!

Good luck with the build.

 

[Grahamshed]

looking good. Keep it up.

 

[Woodmonkey]

Thanks chaps.
Managed to get a couple of hours in yesterday, got rest of wood cut and planed and got the two slatted shelves ready to glue up.

Got called out to deal with this...

Got excited about making some boards from it, unfortunately most of it had the consistency of polystyrene

 

[markblue777]

Hi Woodmonkey,
Looks like it should turn out nice, how is the Tulipwood to work with?

Shame about the oak tree, looks like a fair size as well.
Cheers
Mark

 

[Woodmonkey]

Hi Mark
Its actually really nice to work with, cuts and planes easily with no tearout and sands up beautifully. Made a bit more progress today but didn't remember to take any photos, should get it glued up tomorrow and make a start on the doors.

 

[Woodmonkey]

made some more progress with this today.
Flattening the shelves (bit too wide for my thicknesser)

Used a glue joint router bit (not really necessary but never used it so wanted to try it out)

Got the main carcass glued up (man that was stressfull)

Got the doors machined up too. I'm new to the world of routing so well pleased how these came out.

 

[Scottlefley]

Excellent job, you would never guess you were new to routing looking at those doors, look fantastic...keep it up

 

[Woodmonkey]

Finally finished this, it got put on the back burner for a while due to lots of other stuff going on. The door handles weren't my choice! If the paint job looks a bit dodgy it's because it's been distressed.

 

[Wouldchuk]

A great project well finished. Although the heart sinks at the sound of those dreaded words: "How about a distressed paintwork finish" - in other words - spend ages planing, sanding, painting - to only sand a load of the edges off and throw it on the workshop floor a few times for that authentic look!!
(hammer)

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Really nice, clean joinery - it's a shame to paint it, really (imo). What was the glue? It must have needed a bit of open time. What is the plane? I don't recognise the cap.
Nice one.

 

[Woodmonkey]

The glue was ordinary PVA and the glue up was fairly stressful, didn't have enough clamps as usual. The plane says Falcon Pope on it, it was my dad's I don't know anything about it except I like using it!

 

[custard]

The glue was ordinary PVA and the glue up was fairly stressful

Bet that got the pulse racing! Nice job but to be honest you dodged a bullet using PVA, all your hard work could have been ruined if the glue had grabbed mid way through the glue up. Try Cascamite and take the pressure off with a one hour open time.

 

[Woodmonkey]

Yep lesson learned I will use cascamite next time.

 

[rafezetter]

The glue was ordinary PVA and the glue up was fairly stressful

Bet that got the pulse racing! Nice job but to be honest you dodged a bullet using PVA, all your hard work could have been ruined if the glue had grabbed mid way through the glue up. Try Cascamite and take the pressure off with a one hour open time.

Just read this WIP and saw this bit - could you elaborate please?

 

[Woodmonkey]

On a complex glue up by the time you've got it all together the first bits you glued might already have gone off before you've had a chance to get it all square and clamped