My wife owns and is the controller of the upstairs in our house. It is
dedicated to her quilt making.
We have decided to get those rooms in order after almost being in the
new house for 3 years. We are starting with the "long arm" sewing
machine lower cabinets. For those not familiar the long arm sewing
machine has a foot print of approximately 48" x 132". I have designed
two lower cabinets, each 60" long for this large tool to set on. There
will be a 12" gap between the two cabinets. The base of the long arm
machine base is 16" long front to back and has arms that support the
quilt front, back, and center padding extend approximately 30" total
front and back. Anyway the cabinets are going to be 22.5" deep, 30"
tall and 60" long. The machine is currently setting on top of a 72" and
a 60" fold up lunch room style tables.
I picked up materials on Thursday last week and this morning began the
glue up of the carcases. Once again I am using my double face frame
construction with no screws or nails, all dado's, lap joints, domino
floating tenons, and glue construction for this stage.
The cabinets will have a maple plywood body with poplar for the hard
wood parts. The exterior will be painted a light mint green color with
oil based alkyd paint. Interior coated with varnish.
This first picture shows the 5 dado's in the back face frame. The
cabinet bottom outer sides and inner panels will engage the face frame
via those dado's.
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This picture shows the bottom of the cabinet sitting in the back face
frame bottom rail and one of the end panels leaning up against it. The
end panels engage the face frame outer stile dado and the bottom panel
engages the side panel dado.
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Next is basically the same with both outer panels engaged with the back
face frame and outer bottom panel. You can see where the inner panels
will engage the bottom panel dado's and the back face frame inner stile
dado's
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Next a more close up view
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Next, a shot of all panels and the back face frame. There are 9 dado's
that have been filled at this point.
The face frames were glued up with out the aid of the panels and their
dado's. Often I will dry fit the panels and assemble and glue the face
frames on top of the edges of the panels to insure accurate placement of
the center stiles. I used waxed paper between the dry fit panels and
the face frame to keep them from sticking together from the glue squeeze
out. In this case and on the TV console project I took a leap of faith
and assembled the face frames and the panels according to my drawings.
Basically 14 dado's and 7 different sections have to come together
perfectly on 7 different planes. Unfortunately with using this method a
mistake can mean the need to rebuild the face frames and or panel
sections if the fit is not perfect on the dry fit. The up side is that
if every thing is perfect, the assembly goes much more quickly. This is
the 20th and 21st cabinets that I have built with the front and back
face frame method in the past 3 years and so far all has gone well with
out a problem. I may have said this before, ;!), I could not do this as
quickly or as accurately as I do with out the aid of Sketchup and the
Cutlist 4.x component import program that accurately takes the drawings
measurements of it's components and imports them into CutList Plus.
This import program eliminates the possibility of entering component
data incorrectly into CutList Plus.
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Next the complete assembly with the "front face frame added to the top
of the assembly. FWIW the back face frame and front face frame are not
identical, because of the lap and floating tennon joinery I use on the
back face frame the back rails and inner stiles are 1" longer than the
ones on the front. This just adds to the complexity of the assembly.
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Lastly, inside of one of the compartments as seen from the top looking
down to the bottom. All joints are dadoed.
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