On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 02:10:14 GMT, Rudy Fichtenbaum
<[email protected]> Crawled out of the shop and said. . .:
>I am making a corner cabinet out of solid maple. I am trying to decide
>how to make the back. The back is about 12-14 inches wide. I am a
>little concerned about expansion and contraction of the back if I make
>it all one piece. Any suggestions?
>
>Rudy
use plywood.
no more problem
Traves
I am in the middle of making a repro corner cabinet, however it is a two
piece unit .
The lower cabinet has ply wood backs . The upper cabinet has double glazed
doors so the back is visable .so the back will be done in thin solid walnut
boards tongue and grooved. I will probably do a small quarter round at the
point where the boards meet so that expansion and contraction is not
noticable......mjh
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"Rudy Fichtenbaum" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I am making a corner cabinet out of solid maple. I am trying to decide
> how to make the back. The back is about 12-14 inches wide. I am a
> little concerned about expansion and contraction of the back if I make
> it all one piece. Any suggestions?
>
> Rudy
>
How about getting out the tongue and groove planes (you do have a set of old
beechwood T&G planes, or perhaps a nice Stanley 45?) and making random width
T&G panels about 3 - 5 inches wide? That was common before plywood came
around, I recall. You could probably use pine or poplar and paint.
Brian
"Phisherman" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 02:10:14 GMT, Rudy Fichtenbaum
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >I am making a corner cabinet out of solid maple. I am trying to decide
> >how to make the back. The back is about 12-14 inches wide. I am a
> >little concerned about expansion and contraction of the back if I make
> >it all one piece. Any suggestions?
> >
> >Rudy
>
>
> Plywood is commonly used for the backs of cabinets. I used ply for a
> couple large bookcases and it worked fine. Rabet the sides 1/16"
> deeper than the ply thickness--of cours in this case there will be
> some strange angles and bevels.
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 02:10:14 GMT, Rudy Fichtenbaum
<[email protected]> wrote:
>I am making a corner cabinet out of solid maple. I am trying to decide
>how to make the back. The back is about 12-14 inches wide. I am a
>little concerned about expansion and contraction of the back if I make
>it all one piece. Any suggestions?
>
>Rudy
Plywood is commonly used for the backs of cabinets. I used ply for a
couple large bookcases and it worked fine. Rabet the sides 1/16"
deeper than the ply thickness--of cours in this case there will be
some strange angles and bevels.