Saturday, December 16, 2006

Radius Top Cabinets

Radiused work is quite challenging in comparison to typical woodwork, requiring a different type of math that many woodworkers, at least in Tampa, aren't used to using.

Not shown in the photo are the six glass panel doors conforming to the radius in the upper cabinet and of course the doors and drawers in the lower cabinets. The lower cabinet doors were relatively simple to make, with all the joints meeting at 90 degrees to one another. The radius top doors were another story, for at the top every joint was a different angle, hence the different math. I had to work with a part of a circle instead of a straight line and then connect parts of that circle to straight lines.

Well, I completed the joinery, stained it and put all the hardware on. I'm over at the people's house installing it now.

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