Guess how long this took.

Karl Brogger

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I hate building these. I don't do them often enough to get good at it, so I spend a bulk of my time bashing my head against the wall trying to make all of the angles work out. Not including the finishing, (cause I don't do that), I've got about 20hrs in it.

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I hadn't done a curved raised panel like that in a long time either. Forgot how terrifying those little fella's are going through the panel raiser.
 
Looks fantastic, that will really liven up someone's kitchen :thumb:

Twenty hours is a lot of work, but boy, I'd spend that much time just trying to figure it out!

Pics of the installation would be great!
 
Twenty hours is a lot of work, but boy, I'd spend that much time just trying to figure it out!

Pics of the installation would be great!

No joke, at least 5 hours of that 20 is scratching my head. I ended up building a model of it so I could measure all of the legs. I couldn't wrap my head around getting all of the lengths.

It goes with a kitchen, Laundry, and master bath remodel that I should be installing Wensday, so I should have pics by the end of the week.

Shop full of cabinets:

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Forgot how terrifying those little fella's are going through the panel raiser.

Boy, I GUESS - especially the one that goes UPGRAIN into the cutter!

I do hope you're temporarily attaching those to a larger board to give 'em some inertia & not getting your fingers that close to big spinning carbide... not even taking into consideration the fact that on the 2nd edge there's nearly no support left.
 
May have taken some major head-scratching, but it sure came out looking nice. I'm looking forward to seeing the whole installation.
 
Boy, I GUESS - especially the one that goes UPGRAIN into the cutter!

I do hope you're temporarily attaching those to a larger board to give 'em some inertia & not getting your fingers that close to big spinning carbide... not even taking into consideration the fact that on the 2nd edge there's nearly no support left.

I did all four sides while they were still square. The end grain I used a T-square. Going with the grain isn't too bad and I just did that by pushing it through. I've got a really sweet insert cutter head that the cutters do not stick past the edge of. I'd still get mauled by the three bolts on the edge, but nothing like getting butchered by the actual cutters.

After all four edges have been run, I mark out the backside with a template that I make off of just marking once the frame is loosely assembled, and adding whatever I need to make it go into the groove.

I did screw it to a piece of 1/2" baltic birch to cut the cove on the curved portion though. First one I ran through by hand........ correction, tried to run through by hand. It exploded. Not really but it dug in and wasn't usable. Actually, I think I made 5 of those panels. The next two came out perfect, but there was very little panel left, so I had to recut them and make them larger than what was actually needed, then trim a 1/4" off of each edge so there was something left of the raised part.
 
Got everything pretty much wrapped up. Ran out of crown, and the rope moulding that goes in it, made one drawer front the wrong size, and missing a couple of shelves. Still a mess in the house, and the master bath isn't ready to go yet, but I'll get some more/better pictures once everything is finished up and cleaned up.

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Walnut laundry room.
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ooooh, exciting, roll outs....
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Penninsula back with corbels.
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That's just great-looking work. There's a lot of good inspiration right there for a bunch of us weekend warriors. Thanks for the extra pics, Karl. :thumb:
 
Wow Karl, that is going to be on impressive looking kitchen, what are they doing with the counter tops? I ask as I've seen more than one impressive cabinet job screwed up by a really bad choice of counter top :doh:

Sure is looking good now! :clap:
 
Wow Karl, that is going to be on impressive looking kitchen, what are they doing with the counter tops? I ask as I've seen more than one impressive cabinet job screwed up by a really bad choice of counter top :doh:

Sure is looking good now! :clap:

Tradgically they are re-using the old countertops. They're a white-ish solid surface top. An almost solid black stone counter top would look very nice in there. It wasn't a money thing either, home owner likes the old tops.:huh:

(edit)-This may sound flat out odd, but more often than not I recomend laminate countertops. My thinking on this is that an easy way to dramatically change a kitchen, say 5 years down the road, is to replace the tops. For a kitchen like this you've got less than $2k in the tops if you go with laminate, where as stone will generally cost you about three or four times that amount. If I ever get around to tearing the crappy box cabinets out of my own house, (which haunt me to no end), I'll probably attempt to make concrete countertops myself. I've seen some that were really cool and others that were, well, something to cover the gaping holes in the top of the cabinets.
 
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