The Horseshoe Project

mbcabinetmaker · Post by **mbcabinetmaker** » Thu May 07, 2009 8:25 pm

Before we begin this next project I would like to invite all those visitors to join in on the fun. I myself have really just started participating after joining way back in 2006. I blame my poor computer skills for the slow start, but with the help of mickyd and Others here I am now practically an expert. Well not really but I have learned a lot and am having fun doing so.

This project is a retail service/check out area consisting of a series of cabinets at 45 degrees to each other connected with a pie shaped filler and a large U or horse shoe shaped counter top. The cabinets themselves are not curved. We are working with black melamine and black Wilsonart laminate.
Four of the cabinets will have glass fronts and mirror sliding doors in the back similar to commercial show cases.

We will start with the pie shaped fillers. First step is to make a template of the gussets and then transfer it to a piece of 1/2 inch Baltic birch. This is a jig for running the pieces through the router and I have attached a handle made from a push block that came with my Mark 5. I then cut the parts slightly over size on the table and band saw then screw them to the template and clean them up on the router table. Here we are using MDF.

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Next notching for the upright supports and drilling a hole for a wire chase.

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Mark

mbcabinetmaker · Post by **mbcabinetmaker** » Thu May 07, 2009 8:39 pm

Now we have a finished gusset and the frame work for the four fillers. Tomorrow we will cover these with bender board also known as bending plywood and then laminate with black laminate.

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I know that I said this would not be as detailed as my last thread but it is hard to explain things without a lot of pictures.

Mark

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Thu May 07, 2009 9:03 pm

Why the holes that have been cut in the gussets?

a1gutterman · Post by **a1gutterman** » Fri May 08, 2009 12:20 am

dusty wrote:Why the holes that have been cut in the gussets?

To let the water drain out of course!!!

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Fri May 08, 2009 1:58 am

a1gutterman wrote:To let the water drain out of course!!!

He said wire chase. To run wires through.

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Fri May 08, 2009 8:25 am

JPG40504 wrote:He said wire chase. To run wires through.

Thank you. I need to read those footnotes better.

Gene Howe · Post by **Gene Howe** » Fri May 08, 2009 11:01 am

Thanks for posting, Mark. Please keep us in the loop. I love seeing progress pictures and I'd really like to see the project when finished.

PS. You do good work.

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Fri May 08, 2009 1:20 pm

dusty wrote:Thank you. I need to read those footnotes better.

It would have been More apparent had the chase information been located nearer the pix showing the holes being drilled. Overlooking understandable!
In this case it was a 'head note'!:D

john · Post by **john** » Fri May 08, 2009 4:54 pm

Nice work Mark!

Always good to see someones work.

John

mbcabinetmaker · Post by **mbcabinetmaker** » Fri May 08, 2009 7:36 pm

Well not much accomplished on the project today. I had a breaker go bad so spent most of the day replacing it and running a couple of dedicated circuits to my two shop vacs. It was one of those that caused the problem. I didn't realize they pull 10 amps, and I use them for dust collection and clean up. That along with about any other tool on a circuit exceeds the 20 amp service.

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This picture is why I am a cabinetmaker and not an electrician. Fried my new case muskrat.

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I did manage to get a little done this is a picture of a 4 x 8 sheet of the bending plywood.

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This is one of 2 layers of bender board clamped up. I have learned that in radius work to use lots of glue and clamps.

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Laminate comes in rolled up. I like to let it lay flat and relax before cutting. It will be there Monday. Tomorrow I have to ride all the way down to the famous Dillard House restaurant in Dillard Ga with the motorcycle group. I sure do dread it.

And I do pay attention. I switched from head notes to foot notes. It does make for a better read.

Mark