Swingman wrote:

This particular piece your were talking about above, the base is an
integral part of the bottom, and was actually built around, and
attached to, the bottom cabinet as it was applied.
-- Thank you for including that little morsal! In my mind, I had
been struggling to make the case fit the base.
Given what can go wrong at assembly, it seems like the dado groove for
the floor should be cut just a tad deep (less than 1/16" say), so that
the corners of the base can meet perfectly. Is that reasonable thinking?

On the first example in the previous post (Tansu stack-able cabinets),
the base and the bottom cabinets are separate units, to make it easy
to move around, and facilitate stacking the parts in different
configurations:

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Both bases are built with the same approach,
--- But the latter one just has a rebate to hold the carcase right?
Or did you add more wood to the base (like in the "belt w/suspenders"
approach?)
The hardware that you used in the corners of the first example appears
stronger than the 2 pieces of wood (which appear just butt-jointed
together) under the levelers in the 2nd example (which I assume have the
same reinforcing intent). Is anything else reinforcing the corners of
the base that I can't see, like biscuits?

Maybe you have a hunch what the next incarnation of my TV-Stand will
look like?

The only other new thing that occured to me is that for an inset cabinet
door, a hungarian hinge attaches to the inside wall, I believe.
Presently my "inside wall" is also the end of my case and will be a
about 2 inches away or so. I assume that there is a hinge for an inset
cabinet door that attaches to the back and edge of the faceframe. I
need to learn more about them. Classes resume Monday, so I can mostly
just think and draw for the time being anyway. A detailed SketchUp parts
diagram will be a reasonable short term goal. I won't comit to a design
until I locate my hinges! I feel like I made some big steps this week!

Cheers,
Bill


one that is certainly not my invention, but an old one which I
basically copied/picked up from a cabinetmaker I had to good fortune
to work with in England for a while, whose family had been in the
business for a few hundred years.