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GIZMOGAMES:
theres no real way to counter the tear at the end unless both pieces sides are clamped to a surface :) if you use 2x2 blocks to support left and right side of yr cut that helps other than that use the jigsaw and cut a few inches from the oposite side first :) then cut from the correct side altho again gravity will still try to tear the 2 apart either way with support both sides of the cut neither tears :)
hope that helps the angle cuts are also more proffesional can be achived with chopsaw and setting the angle you require :) also remember the thickness of the cutting blade so cut outside the line :)
apart from that your doing great :and at worst you can work the angle out with a protractor  ..

walterg74:
@jammin0 / @gizmogames

Thanks for the tips! sounds logical, and kinda what I had figured. I guess I need to find at least a small workbench to hold these better for next time!

As far as the angling goes, I sort of figured it out and managed to fit the pieces pretty well... Been working yesterday and will get some more things done today and then post the results tonight.

L8r!  8)

walterg74:
Ok, back to the show!!

Here's what I managed to do during the weekend + some today:

Ok, so last advance post, I had managed to get most of the interior moldings, but quite a few were missing (plus I had ran out of wood!). Got the final pieces cut,  and installed, same method as the previous ones, and this is what came out:



And as far as the angling of the pieces, I went ahead and tried to copy the same angle that the moldings that support the front had, and cutit like that for the botton plate and the front plate as well:





I did have a problem here, since to start my bottom panel having copied the plans exactly, was too long, and had to be cut down. When I did, to follow the way the VertiCade had assembled the pieces, I made the mistake of measuring up the point where the front piece started, but not to add it's width, andso my piece was now too short  :angry:

I had two options: make a new bottom panel, or make a "higher" front panel, and change the assembly from the plans, in a way that the front piece is the only piece seen from the front, instead of following the original plans where that piece is mounted on top of the bottom piece.

I decided to pick the latter, since it was easier to make the smaller piece and also because I saw no reason or sense for having the two pieces seen from the front, as having just the one seems cleaner.

So anyway, here's how the pieces looked and the assembly part:







And adding the other side panel...





And rise frank err.. cabinet!



Wasn't perfect, but nothing that can't be perfected and made prettier with filler.. here is some details with the front only presented to check it out:









Next up.. Going off to the back...  ;)

walterg74:
Ok, so back to the err.. back I guess...

One more comment, on the above pictures, the front piece seems like it has a lot of space to the moldings, and it did, but some sanding was done later to make it fit better.

Anyway, for the back, I presented the pieces to see what it would look like, and while they fit more or less ok:





I wasn't too happy with it, or with the amount of filler Koenigs *seems* to have used there.  I decided to go ahead and try to angle the borders to see what I could get...
something like so:



Angling bot the top piece and the angled top piece,  and presenting showed this:





That was all I could do for the day, so I called it quits, but then got an urge to do something more, whatever I could, inside. So I decided to do some of the top. Played around with the top and angled top pieces, to see the correct placing for the top moldings which I hadn't yet installed. After a while, I ended up attaching them like so:





Once that was dry, I said "what the hell", and decided to continue with the top piece and the "under marquee" piece, and here it is:





Of course my noobines made that the whoe thing was definitely not straight, and so, I only got 3 out of the 4 corners to align, and so opted for the best choice (in my nooby judgement) and chose the 3 I thought were the best, and so, at the front left one, where there was space left, I filled it up with some wood putty/filler I had bought. The results were not pretty, but dried up perfectly and will be sanded exactly as needed for priming/painintg later on (and it won't even be seen, so not a problem. this is the "raw" or "just applied shot:



And that, was Sunday!

Ah... but luckily, today I managed to do some more work... So there's a BONUS post! Say tuned ;)

Vidiot:
Looks like you're really making some progress! I really like the shape of this one. Looks kinda like my little bartop. I love all the pics. Thanks for sharing 'em. I look forward to your progress.   8)

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