I have had a lot of fun fitting and testing the LED lights and mirrors for the new walnut drinks cabinet. The LED lights are so flexible, robust and most important of all, safe. There is very little heat coming from the bulbs which gives you so much more scope for concealed lighting. Should look great once the MDF is swapped for the finished walnut.
Door Shelves for the tumbler glasses are mitre cut and #jointed for the bottom of each door. The drinks cabinet will also accommodate three wine glasses in each door.
Walnut rails are removed from the press forma and planed and sanded into their final shape. The legs have a slight taper on the inside corner and the rails are jointed 80mm from the bottom of the tapered surface, curving inwards to meet each other. The pictures show the rail joining the two front legs.
The new drinks cabinet will have two curved leg rails, one jointed to the front legs and another to the back legs. Using a rod (a 1:1 scale drawing on a piece of board) I am easily able to check and re-check the dimensions and angles of the components and the accuracy of the joints.
The new drinks cabinet will have two curved leg rails, both peeling inwards from the front and back legs to meet in the centre, where they will be joined by a steel rod conduit. As well as joining and strengthening the legs, the rails are prominent decorative feature and must compliment the overall design so the curve must be as perfect possible. I hope to achieve this by creating a template and adjusting the shape by hand. This template will then be used to create a lamination forma that can bend and glue several straight strips of solid walnut together to make the curved form.
The main drawer for the drinks cabinet is now completed and ready for gluing up. The wild grain on the drawer front was a little too much even for the Veritas jack plane so out came the trusty cabinet scraper. The partition and sub partition are also completed and jointed to the drawer carcass.
The small internal wine rack sits at the bottom of the drinks cabinet carcass and will accommodate six bottles. The pleasing curves on the front of the walls echo the curved doors that will embrace the front of the cabinet. This detail also resembles sails and the Streamline Moderne period of Art Deco that the cabinet is influenced by.
