Some picture of my personal kitchen
Edited 3/13/2008 11:13 am ET by gofigure57
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Edited 3/13/2008 11:13 am ET by gofigure57
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beautiful.
it must feel good everytime you walk into your kitchen just to look around.
i once did a kitchen with similar details. it was fun to do something out of the
ordinary.
eef
Very nice indeed.
Better life through Zoodles and poutine...
Congratulations on increasing your homes value by $40,000.... beautiful work!
Definately a "woodworkers kitchen". I like the work. I can imagine how proud you and your's are. How did you cut the dovetails?
Mike
Pardon my spelling,
Mike
Make sure that your next project is beyond your skill and requires tools you don't have. You won't regret it.
Not by hand for sure, i would have never finisned. I used a omnijig, theres approximately 26 drawers. Thanks for the compliments heres a few more shots , These are 5 year old pictures, i need to get some new ones with a better camera. There a pic or two of dinette table in kitchen and some shop shots
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I don't see kitchens like that in 7 million dollar homes.
Outstanding!! But aren’t the dovetails oriented opposite the normal way?
Napie, If I was normal, I would not do this, this I know. So far myself or my family have not been able to pull the tails from the pins, within the past five years. From a decorative standpoint I liked the way they looked, From the mechanical standpoint, I have had lesser joints hold up in harsher conditions. The drawer sides and backs are african mahoghoany, the faces are for the most part flame birch. The frames are alder and the raised panels flame birch as well . The uppers are curly cherry, Birch interiors. Thankyou for your compliments.
Napie,
My grand father built a desk, with the drawer's dovetails oriented the same way. He was trained as a CARRIAGEMAKER, not a cabinetmaker (that was his excuse), yet 100-plus years later, the drawer still is together, never repaired.
Go figure. Glue is good stuff, ain't it?
Ray
What would we do without it? Just to set the record straight I enjoy handcutting and appreciate the skill involved in doing so. Anyone can plug in a router/ battle with setting up the jigs and end up with perfect dovetails. Two Saturdays ago I spent a whole day hand cutting variable spaced through dovetails, on a poplar case for the house, my Idea of a great day. Let me throw this out there, as I have placed pins out front of the draws for design reasons , do the joints loss all of their integrity? Dose the locking side of the joint not help to keep my larger draw sides from one piece of stock from, cupping or twisting on the sides of the draws that for functional reasons must remain parallel and straight throughout its application. In my case African mahogany, beautiful wide boards with that twisted grain.
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Thomas, most outstanding-bound to be an ongoing source of satisfaction. I hope the domestic management aspires to similar standards of culinary output (:)
How did you work the moulding in picture 1141?Philip Marcou
Philip, yes it is a source of inspiration. It never gets old. As for the cove mouldings. Its from 8/4 Curly birch. It was made on the table saw with a blade I had previously called a fluting blade, I believe it is made by LRH . It is approx 6" to 8" in diameter with four 3/4" radius carbide cutters. The smaller diameter allowed me to clamp my guides to the table saw at an angle to the blade that let more of the radius into the wood while making multiple passes, raising the blade a little each time. I hope that is not confusing. I later found out the correct name for the blade is a cove blade. My original goal was to create a moulding that wood allow a shadow line between the ceiling and the trim, as I have never cared for the top of the cabinet trim being scribed to the ceiling . The funny thing is I was using a blade for its intended use and always thought it was for making flutes for trim. The radius cutters leave a reasonably clean surface for cleanup. Thank you, Thomas Love .
Apparently you don't have small children.... :) My 4 year old would go through there like Sherman through Atlanta.
It is beautiful work, I especially admire your stock selection.
Just when I started feeling good about my work I had to look at your work..
Thanks alot!!
Great work. Thanks for sharing.
I know the feeling , Every time I get a new issue of FWW.
Simply wonderful. Please--some more details: type of woods, finish, how long did this take, etc.?
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Thankyou, How long, God knows. I am a remodeler by trade, so I did most of the work myself. At the time I thought It would never end , No regrets non the less. I now get to, as well as my family, enjoy it every day.
Absolutely gorgeous! The creativity, work and detail you used make it not only spectacular to look at, but so unique. It would be a pleasure to walk into at any point.
Very nice. I'll bet the wife loves it. Isn't it great what you can do when you choose the lumber yourself for aesthetics. You won't find anything remotely like that at any mass produced cabinet shop for under $50K. Alls you'd find are a bunch of doors made up of 3" wide glueups that weren't chosen for color match.
Great job.
Jeff
Eh, gofigure57 is a woman. I'll bet the hubby loves it. :-)
Better life through Zoodles and poutine...
Peter, thanks for pointing that out, My profile was incorrect, I am now a man again and not in entertainment , although I been known to make people laugh pretty hard.
Fortunately I had purchased about 550 bdft of the Birch aproxx 4/4 in the rough. This allowed me to have some selection over the width of the boards for placement throughout the kitchen. There is not 550 bdft in the kitchen, I also built two bedroom sets for my two boys and still have about a hundred bdft left . The cherry I acquired over a period of time from the pallets of regular cherry at the yard. The birch was the real deal though. The draft I purchased came into the yard with a whole truckload of red and yellow birch in the rough. The bar code tags on all the drafts showe it all to be plain red and yellow. One of the yard guys pointed this out to me as well as showing me where someone at the mill had marked on a few boards curly select and better. After closer inspection I found the whole pile to be quite figured. He suggested that since they paid for it as red and yellow like the rest of the truckload that I should ask the yard manager if I could purchase it as marked on the bar code tag . He said no problem ,on my trailer it went for 1500$.
He suggested that since they paid for it as red and yellow like the rest of the truckload that I should ask the yard manager if I could purchase it as marked on the bar code tag . He said no problem ,on my trailer it went for 1500$.
So, how many times did you have to stop to wipe off the drool!? Flame birch is to kill for. I have just a cuople of boards. How was it to plane?
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Edited 3/14/2008 2:24 pm ET by KiddervilleAcres
Bob , As far as surfaceing , I used a wide belt to dimension panels and draw faces. This stuff wanted nothing to do with my planer. I have a decent planer , some boards would go through just fine , others not so fine, Sander was more consistent. I have a couple of 6 inch jointers, so I rely more on the sander for flattening draw and door panels. My next purchase will be a larger jointer. Flame birch is one of my favorites as well. Thanks ,Thomas Love
I looked at the posts earlier and did not have a chance to respond. One boardmembers post has since been removed. His statement was rite on about how the drawer slides were made to work, using an applied bead . great observation. His qestion was about determining the spacing of the joinery, as he was in the process of a similar application. I'm sorry your post was removed. I've noticied on this site that when you view a post, it gets marked as read, I was not being rude. So if you get this post, I apologize. Your profile said you where an engineer/ none computer reated which explains the great observation. To answer your qestion on the spacing, It boils down to is dividing the 3/4 " dovetail bit by the height of the combined draw faces and frames so the pins look evenly spaced , as the draws vary in size, this is no exact science , more of an illusion. The even spacing created a nice pattern in this case . Thanks for the reply. Thomas Love.
That was me. I thought my post could have been interpreted as rude myself, thats why I deleted. I am thinking about a similar kitchen design and have been trying to visualize the overall appearance with the quantity of exposed joints. Not something that can be shown in pictures more a feel when one enters.
Great work
Brad
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No problem Brad, I was impressed with your observation on the drawer details. Thanks. Thomas Love.
some beautiful work. what types of wood did you use
Thankyou, gwoodcarver, If you click on the in reply number in top rite corner you can navigate back into the thread.
T.L. , this is the most stunning "personal kitchen" that I have ever seen, we just run out of proper words to commend the wood selection, match, color, figure, grain, construction, balance and twenty other factors meaning "beautiful. Congratulations.
I do have a few items.
1- did you provide cardiac and marriage counseling teams for your lady's girl friends, church group, moms club when they came over for coffee/tea?
2- did you have to hire personal protection after their husbands/mates were informed about this kitchen?
3- does that wood manager know what you did with his wood and has he asked for some professional favors?
4-GET THOSE PICS OFF THIS SITE AND REFUSE TO PUBLISH THEM ANYWHERE!!! BEFORE THEY ARE SEEN BY OUR WIVES, LADY FRIENDS OR DAUGHTERS(I have two of those that I think even crawl the internet in their sleep) We will hunt you down, the Murphia never sleeps .
Sincere congratulations, Paddy
Btw, serious--have you considered increasing your house insurance??
Your compliments are humbling, I did not expect this sort of responce . Thakyou, Much. Thomas Love.
Gorgeous woodwork! Thanks for posting. We are all talking about it on Cooks Talk. I just love the look of the visible dovetails on the front of the cabinet. I can't believe how gorgeous that detail is. The wood you choose is also amazing. Great job!
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