Logan Cabinet Shoppe

So now that I have the doors for the built-in designed, I need to get the case completed. It's been almost there since the end of September, however, I haven't had much time to work on it the last several weeks. October is always a busy month in my family. So this weekend, I rough cut and planed the lower face frame parts, but that's about all I was able to accomplish.

Here's a picture of the case in it's current state. It got too big to keep it in the shop any longer so I had to move it to it's permanent home. The rest of the assembly will be done there. As you can see, there are no face frames yet. I'm working on those now, as mentioned above. The two doors will go on the bottom. The top will remain open shelves. The final case will be painted to match the trim in our house and the built-in effect will be accomplished by wrapping the room's baseboard and crown molding around the case.

This is by far the largest piece I've built to date. It stands almost 8' tall and is about 32" wide. The case and shelves (and the face frames and doors to follow) are solid poplar, all about 7/8" thick. It was all prepared by hand from rough sawn 4/4 stock. The back boards are beaded tongue and groove pine. These were purchased planed from the home center. The case is heavy and I certainly don't want to move it from where it is now that it is all assembled.

Once the face frames are installed, I'll scribe the case to the wall so it fits into the corner seamlessly. The pine back boards are set into an extra deep rabbet to make this possible. The face frame will overhand the case slightly on the right side for similar reasons. Then, it's on to the doors. I'm looking forward to that part. The detail work like the doors is my favorite part.

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