New Yankee Workshop Raised Panel Doors

Norm also explains the techniques involved in forming the piece s solid surface top.

New yankee workshop raised panel doors.

Norm winds up the new yankee workshop s second season with an armoire based on classic designs but adapted to contemporary use. In the parsonage at old sturbridge village a living history museum in sturbridge massachusetts norm admires a built in comer cupboard in the house s parlor. Norm s own design for a corner cupboard constructed back in his workshop from pine and plywood incorporates a top section closed in with glass paned doors and a base cabinet with raised. In each season of the new yankee workshop norm crafts at least one woodworking project whose beautiful design and detailing ensures that it will become a cherished heirloom.

Norm s version is constructed largely of veneer plywood and features raised panel doors. Norm returns to his workshop to build his own model a modified chest of drawers made of knotty pine featuring a base cabinet with raised panel doors and an open shelf section topped with a decorative crown molding detail. Norm builds a cherry bathroom vanity based on one he designed for his own home guiding the woodworker through the details of constructing the vanity s raised panel doors using only a router. In building the project norm demonstrates many of the joinery techniques he s employed throughout the season including dado dovetail and mortise and tenon joints and shows how to use a shaper to create moldings for the piece.

It has raised panel doors and is. Featuring two glass front doors a drawer for storing linens and a lower cabinet with raised panel doors the beauty of the old wood is accented by norm s use of high end vintage looking brass hardware and wonderful. This season it is unquestionably the hutch he crafts out of 200 year old pine.