A SHAVING CABINET

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22371, 7 April 1938, Page 3 (Supplement)

A SHAVING CABINET

Fig. 1 shows a new shaving cabinet. While the shaver is using the glass he. can open the. swing shelves on either side and. put his shaving mug and razor on them. As the -cabinet is for the bathroom it should have an enamelled finish, so a soft wood may be used for making it up—say, redwood or pine, which is easy to work. The cabinet consists of three main parts; these are the carcase and he two swinging doors. The carcase is made first from Jin thick timber, one backboard, size 17Jin by llin, one front piece 14Jin by lOin, the top llin by 6Jin, and the bottom llin by 6Jin. Two brackets r-re needed, measuring s|in by Sin by 2in.

Grooved and tongued joints are shown in the drawings for assembling the carcase, but not for the bottom, which is fastened to the back by an ordinary groove. The groove and tongue joints are similar to the bare-faced tenon, the tongues and grooves being Jin wide or half the thickness of the wood. All the joints should be stopped at least Jin from their extremities. The front piece is set in Jin as shown in the drawing. A fine chisel and a small rout, or “old woman’s tooth” plane, are used for removing the grooves. Two stopped grooves are also cut in the back and are extended Sin up from the bottom. These are Sin wide and take the brackets, a notch Sin long and jin wide is cut in from the bottom edges of the back piece as shown in the drawings. Two brackets underneath the carcase give extra support. A mirror of suitable size is fitted to the front of the cabinet: it is 9Jin by 6in by Jin. The flat type of mirror is preferable to the bevel-edged type.

Use either picture frame moulding or work out one as shown from Jin by Jin strips of wood with iin deep rebate to take the glass. The frame is mitred at .the corners and is then screwed on through the back. The mirror is fitted in its place before the carcase is glued up. , The Swinging Shelves The two swinging shelf pieces are cut from fin wood, four pieces' 14in by 4Jin are needed. Both corner pieces are made from lin square wood, and they should be grooved to take the tongues of the side pieces, which are rounded off afterwards to a gin radius curve for the purpose of pivoting.

■ Four shelves are needed, each 4|in by 4gin by gin. They are joined to the sides with slotted groove joints, each groove being gin ■wide and jin deep; the shelves are cut round the lin by lin uprights. The dowels, gin in diameter for pivoting the shelves, are N lin long. The holes should be bored gin from either side of the back of each upright, as shown, and all four holes should be gin deep. The other holes in the carcase itself are placed so that the outer side of the shelf portions are at right angles, and flush with the front of the main carcase when it is closed. See that all are square and fitted before finally gluing up and pinning the job. The swinging shelves should ba glued up first and put aside to set. Then the carcase, when all is hard, should be cleaned off with scraper and glasspaper. Give the cabinet a coat of flat white paint before adding enamel. Two small handles should be attached to the shelf pieces with which to open them.