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Improving and Tuning After building the bath cabinet, I made a few changes and I will try to improve little things to really fine tune the quality. There were also some things I glazed over and are worth looking at more carefully. One is hinge placement and installation. Here is the router set up... the jig which I tested by trial and error on scrap until its dead on. The depth is also carefully set to flush with the base or top or door. A chisel of exactly the correct width squares the end.
The corner detail where the panels overlay, but do not physically join is worth noting.
Here I used a bowl bit on the router table and then rounded over with an 1/8" rad. bit. Then beveling with a small block plane. The seat of this joint was set by making a few strokes with a med shoulder plane. I changed from mortise and tenon to dowels for the carcass. It weakens the sides if the mortises are long and near the edge, the last one worked ok... this will be safer and stronger. There is something compelling about this type of cabinet. Maybe its the unforgiving nature of the process and how it poses a challenge. I don't know, but it won't be my last one.
Here the woods are the same. The fit is quite good now, but I was just off enough between my hinge template that I had to move a hinge at the top and add a filler to the carcass... the LN small chisel plane is a real friend sometimes. Many people may have let it go... the doors were about 1/16" out of plane. If you cross string it was perfect... somewhere I had a compounding error in the hinge centering and only on the doors. That is not the place to fix it. I move the upper hinge at the carcass and it is all invisible now... These things can happen even if you are careful. Maybe the door thickness was a tad different than the last cabinet...Next will be the doors and interior.
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