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   troys | Jan 16, 2009 03:47am | #1

   Neat credenza, I would use knife hinges for the hardware. For the construction I think gluing up multiple pieces of wood that you have cut the cove shape on a router table or shaper would be the way to go. You can also cut coves on a table saw as well. Getting the grain to match could be a bit of work though.

   Have fun.

   Troy

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   ring | Jan 16, 2009 07:50am | #2

   I'd use the shaper to create the profile, then cut lengths and stack them together to get the look of the door. But there must be some frame or lumbercore sheet behind the facade, which is the actual functioning door. You're going to get too much expansion and contraction issues if you build only the stacked panel. The knife hinges will not tolerate that much play. So the profiled members need to be individually glued to the backing frame in a way that their expansion doesn't accumulate - some reveal or overlap between each piece.

   David Ring

   http://www.touchwood.co.il/?id=1&lang=e

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   SteveSchoene | Jan 16, 2009 08:53am | #3

   What do you know about the originals?  At the resolution of the monitor image, those doors look suspiciously like painted fiberglass corregated roofing.  That material has wood "filler" strips the match the corrugations.  Now, that not be at all what you have in mind so that even if that's how the originals were done, you might look for alternatives. 

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   joinerswork | Jan 16, 2009 07:17pm | #6

   Steve,

   That's exactly what I thought.  Redneck credenza!

   Maybe the poster could nail the corrugated material like siding, using those lead-headed nails, onto a T-111 door, then vacuum -veneer the thing with 20# tarpaper.  The top could be covered with a length of rolled roofing. 20 yr guarantee.

   Ray, just having fun

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   SteveSchoene | Jan 16, 2009 09:30pm | #7

   My problem is invisioning why there would be a call to make more of them, even if veneered with something more handsome than the tar paper. 

   Edited 1/16/2009 1:33 pm ET by SteveSchoene

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   joinerswork | Jan 16, 2009 10:12pm | #8

   Steve,

   Abe Lincoln's expression comes to mind:

   "It's the sort of thing that, people who like that sort of thing would really like."

   Or words to that effect. 

    As my brother puts it, "It's a real good example of what it is."

   Ray

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   bones | Jan 17, 2009 05:38pm | #9

   "That's exactly what I thought.  Redneck credenza!"

   Hey! I have a guite a few redneck friends and I would never see that around them!Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

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   josan | Jan 16, 2009 09:17am | #4

   I just have the photo to work with. But I am assured it is a wood finish
   Perhaps veneer under high pressure? But the top has the same profile
   also. I just love designers, they leave me to scratch my head and still want a reasonable quotation.
   As for expansion issues this just seems like a large scale mockup
   of want we want to avoid.

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   YesMaam27577 | Jan 16, 2009 04:54pm | #5

   >>"...I just love designers, they leave me to scratch my head and ......"Absolutely true. And in the case of the piece in the picture, it is evident that the designer has never had to clean his/her own house.Just the normal dusting task for that one would make most people cringe.And you say that the top has the same profile? Has this designer commissioned a glassblower to make a vase with a matching base?

   Politics is the antithesis of problem solving.