Woodworker's Journal 2009-33-4, страница 19

This easy-to-build corner cabinet adds a bit of storage to a small space with a touch of style!

are well-equipped while using the smallest room. The piece is triangular and is made of American red oak with a simple frame-and-panel door.

Getting Started

The basis of the framework is the three main frame stiles (pieces 1). Find all of the dimensions for these parts in the Material List on the next page. On two of these stiles use a 45° bearing-guided router bit to put a chamfer on one long edge. Set the chamfer depth to leave a 3/8" flat plane on the edge. On the third stile, this chamfer should be put on two matching edges, as shown in the photo below.

Each of these chamfered edges now needs a centered groove plowed along its entire length. This is difficult to do freehand, so 1 moved to the router table. I took about four passes of increasing depth to mill each groove using the built-in depth stop of my router. Rout the grooves 3/8" deep.

Next, make the four side rails that connect the three stiles together (pieces 2). Looking to the Drawings, plow grooves that will later accept the side panels (pieces 4). It is vitally important that this groove is centered, so I used an offcut to set up the router table. It took three passes to cut the grooves to depth, turning the components end for end with each pass. This actually made the slots a few thousandths of an inch oversize but, as the panels are a loose fit, it isn't problematic.

Simple Corner Cabinet

By Don Phillips

Our guest bathroom is not over-generous, but as our Spanish house has brick walls inside and out, we cannot change its size without major alterations. With space so restricted, the only spot available to place a small cabinet was in a corner of the room by the shower entrance. This cabinet, while not large, at least gives us somewhere to store soaps, shampoos, shower gels and paper, so that guests

Three frame stiles with chamfered edges are the core of this cabinet's "skeleton." Many of the frame pieces are made from 1 "-thick stock.

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August 2009 Woodworker's Journal