I started some cabinets over the Christmas break. I got their guts
done, now I need to put the outside on them... the part you see.
We have a big stack of "groove and groove" thick pine boards from
when Utica Mill was torn down in Seneca 15 or 20 years ago. They were
splined together, that's why they are groove and groove instead of tongue
and groove. When I post maintenance pictures, you see them in the background.
You can see a bunch of splines I have bundled together in this picture...
The boards are around 20 feet long, I took a couple of short pieces that were left over
from something else and processed them down to boards I might use on the cabinet.
I'll need more, and the next 20 foot board in the stack looks like a real good one, so I
might not use these at all, it is hard to tell how good it looks inside until you look
inside
...
First off, there's icky creosote tarry (carcinogenic probably) goo on one side of some of
the boards, that needs to go right away, so I resawed the icky side off, and also cut
off the grooves...
My circle saw at full depth of cut won't resaw the whole board through even by going
down each side, so I finished off the resaw with a sawzall...
Run what's left through the planer a few times to get them to the approximate
thickness needed for the cabinet front...
Voila, nice pumpkin colored old pine boards!
I won't use the knots in the cabinet front, it will be made from smaller pieces,
stiles and stuff like the store bought cabinets in the background of this picture...
-Mike
