Curved kitchen units

[Doctor]

This week I made these

I have done curved doors before but first time I have made curved drawers, quite interesting.

The curves were rough cut with a bandsaw and then shaped on the spindle moulder using templates.

This is 2 of the high line units stacked on top of each other, radius is 575mm

The drawer pack is 1220mm across with a 800mm radius
The drawer boxes are oak, drawer fronts are tulip wood to be painted

 

[ramp34]

they look really good, can you describe in more detail how you made them?

 

[Max Power]

Top job Doc , must have made an interesting change to doing flat doors

 

[Paul Chapman]

Lovely work, Bob.

Cheers :wink:

Paul

 

[AndyT]

That really says "custom made" - lovely!

 

[toysandboats]

Absolutely lovely - so smooth looking. I'd also like to know a bit more detail of how you made them.

David

 

[joiner_sim]

I like this alot! I think when i come to buid my own workshop/ showroom in the future, i'll include something like that.

 

[mailee]

Yeah come on Doc, spill the beans give us some more detail on the drawers. How are the fronts joined to the sides? Great looking piece indeed.

 

[Doctor]

I'll post more when time permits, but the drawer box fronts are curved as well, then the painted drawer front is screwed on as per a normal drawer box.
The curved horizontal rails are rough cut on a bandsaw and then shaped on the spindle moulder using a 80mm high rebate block with a bearing.
By attaching curved templates to the top and bottom of the rough cut piece of work it then means the piece can be flipped over to cut with the grain.
Once all the pieces are cut, assemble like a normal door and hand shape the vertical rails to match the curve.

 

[Mr T]

Lovely work Bob. How have you jointed the drawer carcase front, is it dovetailed or otherwise.

Chris

 

[Doctor]

Drawer boxes are dovetailed at the rear and screwed and plugged at the front, with the sides running through to meet the painted drawer front.
Dovetailing the fronts would add a huge amount of work,the customer was made aware that the fronts would not be dovetailed.

 

[Einari Rystykaemmen]

Refreshing drawer design, I like it a lot!

Very nicely done. 8)

 

[Dal123]

They are lovely, so did you cut the curve from an existing far bigger piece, or did you bend these round somehow?
The bigger pieces of the cupboards , are they from some sort of bendy plywood or from the same sort of stuff; sorry for silly questions don't know anything about furniture carpentry but very interested - they look real nice.

 

[Doctor]

They are lovely, so did you cut the curve from an existing far bigger piece, or did you bend these round somehow?
The bigger pieces of the cupboards , are they from some sort of bendy plywood or from the same sort of stuff; sorry for silly questions don't know anything about furniture carpentry but very interested - they look real nice.

All the curved pieces are cut from large lumps of 3" tulipwood, if carefully managed there isn't too much waste. So no bending just cutting and shaping

 

[Dal123]

Ah I see, thanks for sharing .