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# 115 |
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Rick Gorman |
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Petaluma, CA |
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| Dimensions
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Width:
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12 |
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Height:
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29 |
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Depth:
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8 |
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Claro walnut, maple drawer sides and backs, nutmeg drawer bottoms, wild cherry drawer pulls and shelf pins |
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My wall cabinet is named "Standing on the Edge of Goodbye" and was made to hold a special items. It was designed to utilize two special pieces of walnut that were locally harvested here in Northern California. The first was a beautiful thick plank that had fantastic grain of orange, purple, blue and aqua. I resawed and book matched it to make up the case. The second was an amazing piece that included a cross section of a graft. I used this piece for the panel in the door.
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The joinery I utilized for the case of the cabinet was hand cut dovetails. The door is a frame and panel construction. The frame is mortised and tenoned together while the solid walnut panel floats in a groove in the frame. The fixed shelf inside the cabinet is secured with through wedged tenons. The drawers are constructed with walnut fronts, maple sides, and back and nutmeg bottom. They are held together with half blind dovetails in front and through dovetail in back. The divider for the drawers is a sliding dovetail.
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I hand carved the handle for the door and the knobs for the drawers and the shelf pins from wild cherry. I also carved a small spring loaded catch for the door. The back of the cabinet is ship lapped poplar. Inside the rabbets of the four pieces that make up the back of the cabinet I wrote the story of the piece including who, what where, and why it was constructed. I finished the cabinet with tung oil. The piece is hung on the wall with hand made brass keyhole hangers.
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