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So with starting back to work on my normal job, I havent spent a ton of time this last week on the media cabinet, just a little bit here and there. I was able to do some work on it today. During the week I was able to work on getting the base glued up. Below you can see where I am gluing up the long stretchers. As you can see, I dont have any clamps long enough for this so I had to improvise.

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So today I decided to do some more work on the doors; specifically the two outer doors. These doors are 26" tall by 13" wide. As I mentioned in my last post, the center panel is one solid piece of wood. What I worked on today was to mill up the rails and stiles. I am using 2" rails and stiles so once I got them cut and planed I used my matched rail and stile bit to rout the pieces. Here are the individual pieces.

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And here they are loosely put together.

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Here is one door dry fit, without the center panel obviously.

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Next, I took the two center panels and used one of my new vertical raised panel bits and routed the panel profile. Here is a glimpse at the profile.

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Here is one door dry fit. Note the chalk marks, this is how I keep track of where each piece goes and how they should be oriented.

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Straight on look.

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Also note that the I kept the stiles about 1" longer; this is on purpose so I can lay the door flat, make sure the panel is centered for glue up and then trim it to exact length. Here are both doors together.

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Well, that is all I was able to get done today really. Next I need to finish gluing the bottom together and then I need to do a little trick to them to re-enforce the mortise and tenon joint. Next, I am also going to turn my attention to the bottom panel and take my card scraper to it to get all the glue off from the glue up and work on flattening any unevenness. Hopefully more on that tomorrow!

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I started the workbench build back at the beginning of the year by cutting all the 2x4s down to length.  My wife bought me a dado stack for christmas so I was good to go on the workbench.  It turns out that the dado stck will not fit with the standard insert on my tablesaw.  I was kind of expecting that but I was unable to find any other inserts for my saw on the Skil site so I decided to make my own.  I have been putting if off in favor of other projects but I finally got it done and was able to start using my dado stack.  Correction, I was able to start using 1/2" of my new dado stack.  It turns out that the arbor on my saw will only safely hold 1/2".  Its better than using a sungle blade and I was excited to finally get to use it.  I got all the dados and rabbits for the base frame cut and plan on pre-drilling, screwing, and glueing the base together tomorrow.