Entry Details

Wall Cabinet Contest
March 1, 2005

Entry Details

# 86

Robert Hart

Boise, ID

Dimensions (inches):
	Width:	15 1/4
	Height:	36
	Depth:	7 5/8
Materials:		The case is doweled together and is made from black cherry. The floating door panels are made from bandsawn, book-matched black limba. The back is of vacuum pressed maple, the shelves are made of solid cedar of Lebanon, and the pulls are of Madagascar ebony. The small solid brass knife hinges are from Woodcraft. The finish is Daly's Profin (3 coats) and the wax is Claphams lavender bees wax.

The solid cherry case is doweled together. The frame and panel doors are made using offset through mortise and tenon joints. The raised floating panel is made from Black Limba and was raised using a hand-altered straight cutting router bit. The top and bottom case pieces have a docorative dado that was made with a 7 3/8' skillsaw blade in the tablesaw - this reduced the visual "weight" of the piece.

I designed this wall-hanging cabinet to hold DVD's. The shelves sit delicatly on wooden pins so that they can be removed if the future requires a different use for the cabinet. It holds about 88 DVD's. It hangs on the wall with a dovetailed cleat that runs along the top back of the piece.

The doors are hung with small brass straigh knife hinges. The door stops are hade from cherry dowels. The top and bottom edges of the doors have corresponding concave hollws so that when the doors are shut there is a wooden "click" as the doors fit into thier respective stops.

The pulls are made from hand-carved Ebony. They are mirror images of each other, and are inset into the door edges. I then placed very small brass screws to hold them in place. I needed something that I could replace - as the kids are still living at home.

The cabinet is small and clean. The stripped greenish door panels sort of lighten the visual weight of the piece, and is looking even better now that the cherry has had a little time to darken up.

Judges Comments

AJH : Clean design and excellent workmanship. I'm not at all familiar with limba, but I like how it complements the cherry; and effect that will improve even more, I think, as the cherry darkens. Judging from how full the cabinet is, I'm guessing you'll be making a companion for it soon --- your simple design will work especially well when there are two of these side-by-side.
EW : I really like your approach and your execution on this piece. I've used limba and black limba in the past, and apart from the odd aroma of the wood, the grain and color can definitely be used to advantage. Your hinging, pulls and finish appear to have been done exquisitely. Good job!
LG : Very simple lines and clean workmanship, this is a nice cabinet.
RJ : Understated, elegant, and clean lines. I like the subtlety of the grey panels in limba, a wood I've not seen used before.