Making Cabinets out of air dried Sitka Spruce and Alder
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I am planning on making some cabinets at a camp I work at in Alaska, we have a sawmill on site and plenty of Sitka Spruce and Alder. We have never kiln dried anything, just air dried. We have a lift of 1×8 spruce that was left over from another project and I was going to make the cabinet bodies out of spruce and the doors and face frames out of Alder. Do you think it would be wise to rip the 1x8s of spruce in half and glue back together since they are just air dried? The Alder we have used in past tends to bow and warp fast when it gets planed down, it has been setting on stickers for 2 years now and I think I will rip the alder down to 3 or 4 inch wide pieces and glue back up. Do you think that is necessary.
Thanks in advance!
Ryan
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You have a lot of work ahead of you making solid wood cabinets. The more you rip them down and glue them back up it will make them more stable. If wood movement is a big issue you might want to make your case sides frame and panel style to combat wood movement. Also you’ll want to think about how the carcasses will go together. Dados and oversized screw holes.
Jesse
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