Entry Details

Judges Comments

RJ : Cleanly made with interesting use of wood, especially in the back panels. It would have been a bonus to find a similar book matching for the door panels, but nature and wood doesn't always play fair! Here's another example where the extended top and bottom rails of the doors are used to good effect creating a visual horizontal top and bottom border to the piece.
LG : The inside of your cabinet looks great because of the bookmatching. It's a pity the door panels are not book matched. The slight inward lean of the grain direction in the door panels detracts from the appearance for me. Lacking the opportunity to bookmatch the door panels it would have helped to orient the grain in a more vertical line. It's a lovely cabinet nonetheless.
EW : I would concur about the disparate grain match and verticality of the door panels, and I would also express some reservations about the shape of the door pulls, but overall, the effect is very Krenov-esque and therefore intriguing.
AJH : I'm going to disagree with my fellow judges here a bit -- I enjoy bookmatched door panels very much, but I find the two different grainings in the door panels here to be quite interesting. I do agree completely with Lee, though, that the door graining would benefit from being more vertical. Is it just me, or does the bookmatched back panel on the inside kinda look like Yosemite Sam?