Fun with these doors!

I have just finished making these kitchen cabinet doors for a customer. The brief was two 300mm doors and drawer fronts and one 600mm door and drawer front to match the ones he already had. It took a lot of work to get there having to use a lot of different router cutters both hand held and in the table but I think it was worth it.

These are the finished articles:

And in this next shot the original doors are on the left:

I couldn't get an exact match on the colour but hte customer understood this anyway. Glad to see the back of them though.

You've done well there Mailee, I should imagine a lot of these draw/door fronts are made with custom cutters.

 

Bill.

Lovely job Mailee. Colour matching can be a real pain, even on a small article, so I think the job you've done there is excellent.

 

Simon

once again a lovely job Mailee. I am sure your client will be delighted with them. As Tony said, I can't see any decernable difference in the colour either. well done.

cheers Ian

Thanks guys. Today I rang the customer and asked which side he wanted the hinges. It appears his wife had given me the wrong instructions and I should have made a 500mm door and drawer front instead off the 600! He said he had kicked his dear wifes A*se and asked me if I could make another door and front 500mm wide. He is going to take the 600 set as well and use them for an end panel. He is paying me more too of course. Anyway After he had paid me a visit to look at the doors I had already made he was delighted with them. So this afternoon I got started again on the 'extra' door. I firstly made that difficult top moulding to get it out of the way.

As you can see the top of the rail is longer than the scribe, hence the reason I had to add the top moulding after scribing the rail. Anyway by the end of the day I had completed the door frame:

I ran out of Oak for the panel so will have to buy some more tomorrow. In the meantime I got the drawer front finished and ready for staining. Not a bad days work really.

So in a round about sort of way you are grateful for his wife's mistake, more money in the pocket.

Bill.

hi mailee beutiful set of doors, can,t believe how quick you work that replacement door would of taken me ages are doors your speciality?. the match looks excellant on photo i know how hard it is to colour match.

regards mike shields