This spoon display cabinet is one of three I designed and built for my wife. I chose quarter sawn red oak for the case and door frame for its stability and local availability. All of the solid wood has been planed to 1/2" thick to make the piece look lighter and more aesthetically pleasing. The cabinet is purposely void of any ornamentation, my wife wanted something that would house and show off her collection of spoons, and not compete with them.
The finish is colonial maple stain with six coats of gloss Minwax polycrylic and a final coat of semi-gloss polycrylic.
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The case sides are joined to the top and bottom with 1/4" finger joints, and the spoon racks are joined to the sides with tenons and stopped dadoes, and to the back with brass screws in the center of each rack. The back is set in a 1/4" by 1/4" rabbet in the back of the case.
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The 1.5" wide door frames allow a nearly unobstructed view of the spoons in the case. The frames are joined using a miniature rail and stile bit set with a cove profile. The doors were originally made 1/16" oversize and then flush trimmed after being installed on the case.
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The three solid brass hinges are mortised into the case sides to provide enough material in the door frames to attach the door side of the hinges with brass screws.
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The half-mortise lock is mortised by hand into the right side of the case. The key hole was drilled from the outside of the case and finished with a small file.
The 87 T-slots per cabinet in the spoon racks are staggered from one row to the next so the spoons in the upper rows do not overlap the spoons in the rows below (this is a detail I have not seen in any mass produced spoon cabinets). Each of the T-slots is spaced 1.25" on center with the first cut produced on the table saw with a homemade jig. Then each slot was run through two passes over a T-slot bit in my router table, lowering the bit 1/8" before making the second pass on the router table to increase the depth of the T-slot.
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