The plan is to make some nice bookcases out of it. The one I'm working on now will have a cabinet on the bottom and then some shelves on top of it. So far the casework for the bottom is coming together nicely:
This is only a dry fit...gaps between joints will be closed during the glue up.
The interior contains a single shelf:
The top is joined to the sides with hidden (full-blind) dovetails:
This is the first time I've tried this joint and I'm pretty pleased with it. The great thing is that it only has to be functional...the tails and sockets don't actually have to look good because they'll never be seen.
The frame for the doors has a tongue running around the outside of it:
The tongues fits into a groove running around the inside of the case:
This method allows easy alignment of the frame within the case with a consistent offset from the front edge.
The bottom is also dovetailed to the sides, but very differently:
This is just a quick and simple joint that will keep the bottom from falling out if it's ever picked up. The exterior of the joint will eventually have a run of molding around it, so it won't be seen either.
The panels for the doors were resawn from a single board--resawn on a new bandsaw, but that will be another entry. I would've liked to have had the panels symmetrical (book-matched), but with book-matching the grain ends up running in opposite directions. This isn't normally a big deal but in this case the grain of the panels was somewhat iridescent and changed color at different angles. So had I book-matched them, they would've always been different colors. With one of them flipped vertically, the colors match.
The next steps will be ship-lapping some planks on the back, making some molding, and making feet for it. Should be some new techniques, so I'm looking forward to it.
