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I'd like to call on everyone's obvious knowledge of wood...
I'm part way through building a built-in set of painted cupboards and shelves. So far I have the frame and shelving installed. As this is all supported and fixed to the walls I haven't had to worry too much about the timber used, I've used bog standard pine for the face fames from my local builders merchant (not great but after a lot of sorting I ended up with pretty true, clean, pieces) and birch ply for the sides/shelves. I stacked these in the room for a number of weeks before starting.
Now all I have left to do is make the doors. I'm planning on making frame and panel (not raised) doors. As these will be approx 1800x500mm each I want to try to ensure they don't twist, and as it's almost impossible to find stock that doesn't start twisted from a BM I'm looking at sourcing it from a proper timber merchant (maybe even online - SL Hardwoods??).
So my question (finally) is what type of timber do you suggest for the frames? As it will end up painted I have no preference visually (as long as it takes a paint finish well) I have a planer/thicknesser so I can dimension my own stock (within reason) so sawn boards would be most economical. I was thinking of making the long frame sides about 25x80mm in cross section.
Any ideas, what about ash (just looking at SL Hardwoods for inspiration)?
Thanks,
David.
I'm part way through building a built-in set of painted cupboards and shelves. So far I have the frame and shelving installed. As this is all supported and fixed to the walls I haven't had to worry too much about the timber used, I've used bog standard pine for the face fames from my local builders merchant (not great but after a lot of sorting I ended up with pretty true, clean, pieces) and birch ply for the sides/shelves. I stacked these in the room for a number of weeks before starting.
Now all I have left to do is make the doors. I'm planning on making frame and panel (not raised) doors. As these will be approx 1800x500mm each I want to try to ensure they don't twist, and as it's almost impossible to find stock that doesn't start twisted from a BM I'm looking at sourcing it from a proper timber merchant (maybe even online - SL Hardwoods??).
So my question (finally) is what type of timber do you suggest for the frames? As it will end up painted I have no preference visually (as long as it takes a paint finish well) I have a planer/thicknesser so I can dimension my own stock (within reason) so sawn boards would be most economical. I was thinking of making the long frame sides about 25x80mm in cross section.
Any ideas, what about ash (just looking at SL Hardwoods for inspiration)?
Thanks,
David.