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I ground to a halt on my JK cabinet for the moment but wanted to try some proportions of JK legs and angles on a utility piece. I had a couple of unused kitchen cabinets so decided to make a 5 drawer tool chest which I need and test out the design theories.
No drawing - all out of the head as we went. I can hear the tut tuts!
The cabinets were 600 wide x 350 high and about 550 deep with the rear wings cut off.
I needed a total height of 1200mm so that I could see in the top drawer and put tools on the top so made a template for the JK leg with 25% reduction in width at 25% of the height. This is one of the issues as this only works for single side curves with the other left straight.
Here I made the first mistake as when I cleaned up the curve with the circular plane it ran into the nail holes
I reckon the top needs to be about 15% less than the foot.
For the first one I bandsawed off the waste but this was not necessary and I just did the others on the spindle with a bearing taking two cuts to cover the 70mm height with the spurs removed.
I cleaned up the legs with the circular plane again (great tool that) and tested a few angles for the legs. I ended up with 4deg incline which is less than it looks.
Screwed them up temp to take a look
I also tried to put some tension into the top of the legs by a compound angle lifting the outer corner by 4 deg.
I'll chamfer them up in the morning and stain them. I am going for 3 drawers in the top unit and two in the lower with some left over wenge MDF for fronts or I may discover something nicer in the oddments pile.
If I say it myself I am well pleased with the proportions - for once it has come out as I intended and has a bit of an animal look to it - certainly organic - getting there.
To be continued
No drawing - all out of the head as we went. I can hear the tut tuts!
The cabinets were 600 wide x 350 high and about 550 deep with the rear wings cut off.
I needed a total height of 1200mm so that I could see in the top drawer and put tools on the top so made a template for the JK leg with 25% reduction in width at 25% of the height. This is one of the issues as this only works for single side curves with the other left straight.
![001-5.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/794/79469aa6124b381c03f68d5570187bb3.jpg)
Here I made the first mistake as when I cleaned up the curve with the circular plane it ran into the nail holes
![005-1.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/646/64683cf2c5eb679da2058f2899e593f6.jpg)
I reckon the top needs to be about 15% less than the foot.
For the first one I bandsawed off the waste but this was not necessary and I just did the others on the spindle with a bearing taking two cuts to cover the 70mm height with the spurs removed.
![009-1.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/51d/51d7af3cd32acd046f799856635d9998.jpg)
![008-2.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/ef8/ef82ee5a5523cd84f56319b7e230ee49.jpg)
![011-1.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/93c/93c81db648bfc3fdc35964699b0d082f.jpg)
I cleaned up the legs with the circular plane again (great tool that) and tested a few angles for the legs. I ended up with 4deg incline which is less than it looks.
Screwed them up temp to take a look
![038.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/617/617c16ab087f3013b808db6d51885d00.jpg)
![025.jpg](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/cde/cde5eda0843a6ff26c46be4c6df5dfec.jpg)
I also tried to put some tension into the top of the legs by a compound angle lifting the outer corner by 4 deg.
I'll chamfer them up in the morning and stain them. I am going for 3 drawers in the top unit and two in the lower with some left over wenge MDF for fronts or I may discover something nicer in the oddments pile.
If I say it myself I am well pleased with the proportions - for once it has come out as I intended and has a bit of an animal look to it - certainly organic - getting there.
To be continued