We were encouraged to come up with an application for the cabinet for this project and then design and build around that application. This prevents you having a 4 cubic feet drawer to house a few paperclips---for example. The only thing I needed to store in a cabinet is compact discs.
This cabinet has eight shelves and should house between 200 and 250 discs.
I wanted to try two different techniques in this cabinet. I wanted a coopered door (curved like a barrel) and I wanted to explore traditional frame-and-panel joinery. I also wanted a solid wood only cabinet (the drawer bottom is plywood).
The door is four feet long and has six staves that have been shaped to a smooth curve. The wood for the door is something called castello boxwood. I walked past this particular board four or five times at Exotic Woods in Burlington, ON. I finally "saw" the board leaning against a wall. I measured it and found it to be exactly as large as I needed it to be.
(Maple, castello boxwood, oak, walnut, aspen, luan plywood; 60" H x 11-1/4" W x 11" D; 2003-04)
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