A ‘Mulberry’ Corner Cabinet – Gallery
You can also read about the making of this cabinet by clicking the links below.
A ‘Mulberry’ Corner Cabinet – Part One
A ‘Mulberry’ Corner Cabinet – Part Two
A ‘Mulberry’ Corner Cabinet – Part Three
A ‘Mulberry’ Corner Cabinet – Part Four
A ‘Mulberry’ Corner Cabinet – Part Five
A ‘Mulberry’ Corner Cabinet – Part Six
A ‘Mulberry’ Corner Cabinet – Part Seven
A ‘Mulberry’ Corner Cabinet – Part Eight
A ‘Mulberry’ Corner Cabinet – Part Nine
A ‘Mulberry’ Corner Cabinet – Part Ten
A ‘Mulberry’ Corner Cabinet – Part Eleven
A ‘Mulberry’ Corner Cabinet – Part Twelve
A ‘Mulberry’ Corner Cabinet – Part Thirteen
A ‘Mulberry’ Corner Cabinet – Part Fourteen
A ‘Mulberry’ Corner Cabinet – Part Fourteen… and a half
The sawn Ash veneer.
Curl, fiddleback and burr figuring.
Extravagantly cut Pine end boards.
One half of each board is free floating.
I think I’ve nailed it.
Alcohol-free rusty nails.
The glue-up for the lower section of the composite surbase moulding.
The two-section composite surbase moulding.
The veneered and moulded plinth.
The completed lower carcass.
The various Ash blocks are rubbed onto Pine boards.
The ground of the ogee section was bevelled before gluing on the Ash blocks…
…and then moulded using ‘hollow’ and ’round’ moulding planes.
The built-up cross-grained cornice moulding.
The front facings assembled.
The front right facing.
The carcasses are now complete.
The transition break.
The cornice.
The first three steps in preparing the lower door stuff.
Lower door moulding and panel groove.
Preparing a Masons’ Mitre on the end of a stile.
A Masons’ Mitre.
Stile veneer mitred and frame ready for gluing up.
Test fitting mitred veneer on one of the upper doors.
Bare upper door frame.
Routed spine.
Finished glazing bar…
… and corresponding door moulding.
The internal spine helps keep the moulding together.
Blind mortices provide neat, positive location for the glazing bars.
Mitred intersections accentuate the moulding profile.
One door ready for glazing.
Shelf edge moulding.
The supports were cut to length and nailed in place.
The single lower shelf in position.
The pull-out slide retracted under the base.
Two blocks rubbed onto the baseboard act as stops.
One of the lower doors stained with aqua fortis.
The black oil highlights the wild grain.
Two bolts, before and after filing.
Two of the buffed door bolts.
The brasses ready for antiquing…
… and after they’d spent a few hours in the Bucket of Wrath.
The completed ‘Mulberry’ corner cabinet.
The pull-out slide.
The upper doors and cornice.
Glazing bars.
The lower doors.
Brass escutcheons and new key.
Some bruscum and molluscum.
It fits… I’ll take it!
Cabinetmaker’s glazing compound.
All locked up and secure.
Anyone for tea?
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