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Dave- excellent! Thank you.

Very nice. Elegant, understated. Question- Is the carcass mitered? (Hard to tell from this photo) And I guess becuase the legs are attached only to the edge of the carcass and the top, and there are no side rails, wood movement isn't an issue?

bduffin: thanks. All the frame parts (legs, rails, and the lid frame) are mesquite. A great wood, though hard, prone to imperfections (cracks, checks), but beautiful. I did cut the veneer myself, from some boards an old shopmate of mine left(forgot?) in our shop when he left. It was the first time I worked with it- though I much prefer its color and character to plainer maples.
The curved side panels are 3/8" bender board, I pretty much bent it to its minimum radius at the top part of the curve. A little springback, but I was able to wrestle it into its grooves. The front panels are MDF. The panels on the lid are solid wood, as are the two bubinga pieces.

thanks guys. I originally built it as a spec piece, but became quite fond of it during the process. It may just live at the foot of my bed...

thanks! actually, the design came first- wanted the doors to be sort of "sexy", like a neckline. Got lucky with some beautiful walnut from Hearne

I agree that it's good and necessary to "think outside the box." However, sometimes being different, or unique, or "weird", for it's own sake simply leads to a lot of junk. With all the references to Krenov recently, remember what he said about "design"? If I may loosely paraphrase, that one doesn't have to be all that inventive- it's more about caring and doing it well... I'm not trying to bash the above idea about innovation- but, in my opinion, it should be tempered by an appreciation of quality and caring.

I've been fooling around with this on some small boxes and have run into some difficulties. Does anyone know if there is a minimum "overall length" that the plugin will accept? On my boxes (3 1/8" tall) the layout that is produced is too big

(I apologize for the multiple posts, not sure what happened!)

Hi Dave- nice video, thanks. I have a question. How would you handle the situation where you want to save a component in your library for future use that has its axes different from the global axes, but you still will want to be able to flip along an axis? For example, in your 1st video you have the angled wall cupboard- suppose that were an angled table leg with joinery included,and you wanted to pull in 3 more and place them around a table. Would you then have to realign the coponents axis to match the global axis for the copying procedure, and then change it back yet again (before running CutList for example)?
Does that make sense? Thanks for your attention,
Michael

Hi Dave- nice video, thanks. I have a question. How would you handle the situation where you want to save a component in your library for future use that has its axes different from the global axes, but you still will want to be able to flip along an axis? For example, in your 1st video you have the angled wall cupboard- suppose that were an angled table leg with joinery included,and you wanted to pull in 3 more and place them around a table. Would you then have to realign the coponents axis to match the global axis for the copying procedure, and then change it back yet again (before running CutList for example)?

Hi Dave- nice video, thanks. I have a question. How would you handle the situation where you want to save a component in your library for future use that has its axes different from the global axes, but you still will want to be able to flip along an axis? For example, in your 1st video you have the angled wall cupboard- suppose that were an angled table leg with joinery included,and you wanted to pull in 3 more and place them around a table. Would you then have to realign the coponents axis to match the global axis for the copying procedure, and then change it back yet again (before running CutList for example)?

actually, she owns a Ducati, but we both appreciate the Asian aesthetic...But thanks for the remark!