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Butterfly Cabinet
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Design
This is the start of a blog series about my Butterfly Cabinet project. It started over a year ago with a request from my wife’s best friend for ...
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Materials
Initially, I planned to use sapele for the cabinet. Unfortunately, it’s 60% more expensive than maple, so I opted for the latter, knowing that I’d ...
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Building the Case
[04.00 Case - Details.jpg] Most of the case parts are between 12” and 13 1/2” wide and required two-board edge glue-ups. I don’t like having glue ...
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Testing Finishes and Pre-finishing the Case
I built the cabinet from maple to save money. Now it was time to try to darken it to the middle-toned mahogany finish our friend wanted. I knew I d...
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Assembling and Completing the Case
The glue-up was easier than it is for most projects. It involved gluing the sides and center assembly to the top and bottom panel. [08.00 Case - ...
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Building the Drawers
[10.00 Drawer Details.jpg] The drawer boxes were easy to build. I made them from 12 mm Baltic birch plywood. I prefinished the insides with poly, ...
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Adding Door Details
[11.00 Door Details.jpg] Earlier, I had cut the doors to size and drilled the hinge cup holes. Before I could apply finish and add the brass disk...
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Blog Post 8: Completing the Doors (and the Project)
Now it was time to work on the brass disk wing disks. Each disk would fit into a shallow (about 0.04” deep) 5/8” diameter well. Before proceeding,...
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