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Scappoose, Oregon, 26 Sep 2007—Every woodworker has fun building for the shop, but my first project of real furniture had a truly useful function inside the house.

We had just moved from California and left our computer setup with our home buyers there. My wife Sue was in desperate need of four major pieces of furniture: a lateral file cabinet, a china display cabinet, a document cabinet, and a computer desk.

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Document Cabinet

This was a bear, another design from scratch, with dimensions driven by the actual sizes of Sue's collection of antique magazines.

First, an image showing a scale drawing I worked up in Image Composer. This was about the fourth generation of such plans. I built basically from this diagram after adding penciled dimensions.

That's solid maple door frames and base, maple plywood top, sides and inner shelves all edged in 3/4" hard maple. Finished with one coat of BLO and three coats of satin urethane. Nice figure in the top that's hard to see here.

Here's what required so much custom design. The magazines were published monthly from about 1898 into the 1920s, but her interest covers only to 1917.Each of the upper right sections contains magazines for a particular year. The rest is storage for shipping and handling the china and mazagines she sells at auction. Pin-supported shelves on left are adjustable for height.

Another view.

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