Tom Norman, American Style Display Cabinet (Student Awards 2019)

A display cabinet inspired by American liquor cabinets and using American woods: American walnut (Juglans nigra) for the carcase, American white oak (Quercus alba) for the base, American rock maple (Acer saccharum) for feature joints. All solid wood, except for American walnut veneered back. Showcases a variety of woodworking skills and techniques such as bent lamination, fractal burning, hand made dowel, and wide variety of joints, including dowelled mortise and tenon, dowelled mitred finger joint, half blind dovetail joint, sliding dovetail, dowelled rebate, dowelled domino joint, stopped tongue and groove, cross halving joint, stopped through housing, wooden drawer runners. Designed to be for generic display (not specific), so that items can be changed or moved around. So there is versatile shelving in the interior for small items, large items, highlighted items. Drawer for special items to be kept out of plain sight, with fractal burned interior as feature. Glass rebated doors. A contemporary and functional piece of furniture designed to hold childhood memories and special pieces as I move out of home. I wanted to stretch myself with a whole lot of new and different skills, but make sure that the finished piece had features without being disjointed or distracting. The size of the cabinet is 1800mm tall, 700mm wide and 450mm deep. It was made February to August 2019. Year 12, St George Christian School. Teacher: Joel Garlato Photos: Daniel Le

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