Door and Paint
2014.04.22
Initially I planned to leave the cabinet open, but it seemed better to have a door to keep sawdust out and for a more tidy appearance. So I ripped some rails and stiles from pine and joined them with mortises and tenons.
I bought a piece of allegedly 1/4″ plywood — which is really closer to 3/16″ — and cut it down for the door panel. I plowed grooves in the rails and stiles to receive it, then glued the frame together.
2014.05.04
I was not sure I would have enough blue milk paint for two coats, so I used green for the first coat. The blue was left over from the tool chest and the green from the six-board chest. In the end, it turned out I had more than enough blue powder, so I could have just used that for both coats.
As the blue paint went on over the green, the project took on a sickly blue-green hue that was rather disconcerting.
Once the second coat was dry, however, the end result was the expected powdery blue, with a few hints of green below here and there. On the tool chest, I followed the milk paint with some oil, which gave it a darker, somewhat more even tone. I don’t have any of the polymerized tung oil left, so I’m just leaving the milk paint as-is for this project.
With the painting complete, I mortised and installed two hinges, ebonized and attached a knob, and fit two cup magnets to hold the door closed.
Drill Press Cabinet