Now back to the garage (with a detour through the bathroom).
Our guest bathroom cabinet drawers and doors stink:
The hinges are loose, the doors are warped and dont shut flat, the drawers are crooked, and the knobs are all messed up. Ordinarily Id just slice up some plywood, paint it, and call it a day but my wife said shed let build some rail-and-stile door for our house if I practiced frame-and-panel construction on smaller stuff--so there you go.
I wanted nice stable wood for the project, but didnt want to spend much money on it. I think wood is like steak: you can spend a lot on it and not have to work very hard for good results or you can spend less, put some effort into it, and still get good results. I bought the metaphorical cube steak:
The above photo is from Chris Schwarzs blog. Chris has got to be the number one SYP advocate around, but even he concedes that you have to baby it.
I noticed something as I was walking around Home Depot the other day: a lot of the larger boards for sale are sectioned right through the pith (see three pictures up^^^). Now, I dont want the pith--nobody wants the pith--but on either side of the pith are prime pieces of wood, essentially quartersawn. I decided to just be selective and buy these underpriced boards and cut out the good stuff.
The boards were too big for me to safely handle by myself on the table saw so I busted out the old Skil 77: what a beast. Moses was, however, unimpressed: he being a bigger beast with a louder whine. You can see how wet the wood still is by how clumpy the sawdust is in the above photo. I suppose this is a good thing, as I dont really want all that stuff flying around everywhere.
Then I just ripped the nominal 2" boards in half and had some good-sized wood for the cabinetry:
You can tell how a board is going to warp by just thinking the rings want to be straight. So now you can understand how these radial cut minimize any cupping.
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