The Horseshoe Project

[mbcabinetmaker]

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]

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.:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Mark

[dusty]

Why the holes that have been cut in the gussets?

[a1gutterman]

Why the holes that have been cut in the gussets?To let the water drain out of course!!! :rolleyes:

[JPG40504]

To let the water drain out of course!!! :rolleyes:
He said wire chase. To run wires through.

[dusty]

He said wire chase. To run wires through.

Thank you. I need to read those footnotes better.

[Gene Howe]

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.

[JPG40504]

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