Home Office Storage Cabinet (with display to come)

[Bill Arnold]

In other posts, I've made mention of an office cabinet with display that I've been working on for a while now. The base storage unit is complete, except for loading more items into it, but this is where we are as of today.

Basic construction is solid cherry with maple plywood door and end panel inserts. I used a stain on the panels to make them resemble cherry. The top is 3/4" plywood with rotary cut bubinga veneer. The finish process was a coat of EM1000 sealer, two coats of EM6000 gloss, and one coat of EM6000 semigloss. Actually, I put three coats of EM6000 gloss on the top panel.




Here's the overall plan from SketchUp:



And a couple of interim photos:
You can never have too many clamps!


Thanks for viewing!

 

[Rennie Heuer]

Wow - good looking cabinet! Love the upper rails on the doors.

 

[Darren Wright]

Nice design and execution Bill.

 

[Tom Niemi]

Good looking base cabinet Bill, as Rennie said, upper rails are kool! Nothing better than an office cabinet filled like that

 

[Rennie Heuer]

Didn't realize till just now that the one thing my office is lacking is a slicer for cold cuts. Amazon here I come!

 

[Vaughn McMillan]

Looks very nice, Bill! Looking forward to seeing the rest of the project, too.

Didn't realize till just now that the one thing my office is lacking is a slicer for cold cuts. Amazon here I come!

Well, that and the bottle of Triple Sec.

 

[Bill Arnold]

Didn't realize till just now that the one thing my office is lacking is a slicer for cold cuts. Amazon here I come!

At the time we were looking for a slicer back in January, the best price was at Walmart. Amazon now has an un-branded version of what looks like the same slicer. Webstaurant Store is another place I look for choice items.

I've used our slicer mostly for home made Canadian bacon. Tried slicing raw beef roast for jerky, but that didn't work so well.

 

[Bill Arnold]

Looks very nice, Bill! Looking forward to seeing the rest of the project, too.

Well, that and the bottle of Triple Sec.

The Cuervo is still in a kitchen cabinet (haven't moved it yet) and the mixer is in the fridge.

 

[Leo Voisine]

WOW - that looks nice.

I sure could use a nice slicer like that too.

 

[Don Baer]

At the time we were looking for a slicer back in January, the best price was at Walmart. Amazon now has an un-branded version of what looks like the same slicer. Webstaurant Store is another place I look for choice items.

I've used our slicer mostly for home made Canadian bacon. Tried slicing raw beef roast for jerky, but that didn't work so well.

put the meat in the freezer before you slice it for jerky.

 

[larry merlau]

looks great bill. and yu can cut meat for jerky on them is you get the meat stiffened up some

 

[fred hargis]

Really nice. How did you do that edge treatment on the top of the doors?

 

[Bill Arnold]

Really nice. How did you do that edge treatment on the top of the doors?

I printed a full-size pattern from SketchUp and used it as a guide to bandsaw a template in 1/2" plywood. Then, I used the template to mark each of the cherry pieces and bandsawed them within 1/16" of the line. The final step was to put a bottom bearing pattern bit in my router table, used double-sided tape to attach the pattern to each piece and finished the shaping. A little sanding completed the process.

 

[Bill Arnold]

put the meat in the freezer before you slice it for jerky.

looks great bill. and yu can cut meat for jerky on them is you get the meat stiffened up some

I'll definitely try that method the next time I make jerky.

 

[Bob Gibson]

Beautiful work !!

 

[David Johnson]

Beautiful cabinet. Unique door design.
David

 

[Bill Arnold]

Beautiful cabinet. Unique door design.
David

OK, I've got to give credit where it's due. A few months ago, I was watching a series of old Wood Whisperer episodes. In one of them, Marc built a cabinet with doors of a similar design. Since my cabinet is a simple design, I thought I'd borrow from him to dress it up a bit.