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Hand Crafted Arts And Crafts Wine Cabinet


I built this Wine Rack in the summer of 03. I built two and gave one away for a wedding present to a friend of mine. (Enjoy Dave and Robyn)


Materials

  • This was my first experience with White Oak.

  • I used quarter sawn stock for rails and stiles and rift sawn boards to fill panels.
  • The legs are a mixture of quarter sawn and rift sawn stock.


    • Construction:

  • Panels and doors: Mortice and tenon joinery holding bookmatched panels. Rails are joined to legs with mortice and tenon joinery. The Doors slide in slots milled in the bottom and top stretchers
  • Legs: 3/4 White oak joined with a lock miter. (I will never do it this way again. Wasted a lot of beautiful wood.)
  • Top: Breadboard ends held on with a split tenon pinned through with dowels. The tenons are visible on the back and front of the top.
  • Wine Stretcher: Joined to side stretchers with pinned through mortices. You can see the pins showing in the third pic second row. The pins are part of the wine holder stretcher and were quite a challenge for my skill set. The shape was achieved with template routing on the router table.
  • Front stretchers The top front stretcher was a challenge. It is joined to the legs with a dovetail joint dropped down from the top. The bottom one was also a challenge. It is let in with a dovetail joint slid in from the back. They both have slots that the doors ride in.


    • Finish:

  • The top was sanded smooth and scraped with a cabinet scraper
  • The piece was sanded to 220 grit garnet sand paper and then coated with several coats of natural Watco danish oil. I blew out the joinery with compressed air to get the excess out.


    •  How to compose a rift sawn panel. The cathedral points UP
    		 How not to compose a rift sawn panel The right door panel is a bullseye! YUK
    		 Shot from the left side
    		 Back
     The top. It is made with pinned breadboard ends.
    		 Another back view
    		 End view. You can see the breadboard ends in this shot You can also see the pinned wine rack stretchers. This is the best re-sawn panel on the peice.
    		 Top with ray's visible

    What I learned:

  • This was my first attempt at bookmatching. I learned something about composition. A simple lesson, choose nice cathedrals and point them UP!

  • I am not sure if I like the fact that the side panel hangs lower than the bottom front stretcher. I was designing around the space needs of the glasses and bottles. I think it is O.K. though.
  • This was my first attempt at sliding doors. They were a design challenge. Soon after I was done, FWW came out with an article on how to build them. I almost got it right.
  • This was my first attempt at anything with legs. Constructing the thick legs with 3/4 stock was a challenge. I will likely use a different technique next time. I have seen different techniques to get quarter sawn grain on all four sides using glued up stock and applying a quarter sawn insert (veneer) to cover the rift sides.
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