Consoles & Door Panels

Well now, what to do while some oiling is going on with the carcass? Door panels.
I finally decided to make the door panels veneered. Here are the substrates. If you haven't guessed why I have four substrates, you'll see in a bit.

Veneer is made and selected. Here I'm shooting an edge for gluing pieces of veneer together.
After they are joined, back to the press they go.

The carcass is still being patient with oil and the door panels are being pressed. I can do consoles in the meantime.
Consoles can also be called shelf supports. I tried a little different set-up for making these little guys and it seemed to work out nicely. I milled some stock wide enough to get two "rows" and to final thickness. Cut that to a length to get two "columns" so that there would be four consoles able to come from one work-piece at this stage. Bored a hole in the middle of that bit as can be seen above. The round hole will become part of the profile of the console.
Then ripped that piece a little less than half on both sides. I like a console that is a bit longer than tall and for the rounded profile to not come to "90 degrees" vertical.

Cut the shoulders on the table saw. The little square "tenons" will become round pegs to go into the holes drilled into the cabinet sides previously.

Cleaning such small shoulders is pretty difficult just referencing off a shoulder. I came to this conclusion a while ago and have been happy with the results/workability. Make a hole in a piece of ply-wood that just fits the small work piece. Put the work piece in a vise on the bench, in this case I use my tail vise. Put the ply-wood over the work piece and adjust the work piece to the desired depth of cut and angle. Then just use a plane iron on the ply-wood to take that thin cleaning shave.
Not fool proof, but it works well with care.

Add a little shaping with a knife and file. Hey presto! A console. Well it did take a number of hours to complete all of them. I need four for the one adjustable shelf in the cabinet, but I like to make extra in case any should get lost.

Alright, fast forward to some door panel fitting here. I have the frames clamped vertically and shot the height of the door panels to fit with a small amount of friction.

Some more finessing, doweling, and yet more finessing the doors will look something like this. Yes, there is certainly more finessing to come.
This is where those four substrates come in. Two panels per door with thin vertical gaps between them and the door frames.

That's all for now, till next time.