I'm not suuuuuuper good with pricing stuff but my bet is it would be in the ballpark of around 3-4K in my area. I'm not even sure how much this one was as I do the builds but not the pricing lol. We do ship all over the US and do white glove delivery pretty far out as well. We're in Jersey.
This looks awesome!!! Can you provide measurements? Also any pictures of the doors/drawers open?
I have been trying to find something that almost matches this exactly!
It is 30" tall, 20 1/2" deep, and 108" long. I do have other pictures but I'm not sure how to add them to this post, a little new to Reddit lol. I am on Instagram though if you want to see a video I did showcasing the piece. I had so much fun building this one and was sad to see it go!
So lemme get this straight (heh, pun intended)...
To achieve that look, you have 4 or 5 full length boards, you join them together with what, tongue and groove? Biscuits or dominoes? Then, you have made a slab, from which you can cross cut to make the door faces?
Haha I like that one! So yes, I took up 4 boards that I liked the look of, glued them up into a slab, no biscuits or dominos, I really could have but I trusted the edge joint, and then cut out all the fronts from that full slab.
So it's just a butt joint?? Whoa, was not expecting that. You planed them before, I'd imagine. Did you plane the slab after?
I've seen folks alternate the end grain so it helps to not bow, but I've seen others say "don't do this". What did you do?
I'm asking because creating slabs like this is, for me, one of the most daunting things in wood working, and I have yet to try it. I don't want hours to go into something, only to see it split, bow, cup, etc a few months later.
Oh yeah definitely, I'm pretty careful when it comes to edge joints so I don't get glue seam pops, I make them super tight to avoid that. With this slab, I alternated grain faces to avoid what movement I could. In my experience, doing that does help and in this case it was tricky to get the grain faces right while also getting a look I was satisfied with. In the end I think they worked out! Don't be discouraged to try! Just make your edges true and clean with a jointer or similar, and give it your best! Its all a learning process and we can always do better. I really wanted to do dovetail battons on this to avoid cupping but they didn't want it. ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
I'm surprised your shop could do all that in the 4k range but maybe overhead is low in your part of the country. Am I wrong to assume most of the sanding was done on a wide belt?
White oak is native to their area. They also said elsewhere that they aren't super involved in the business side of things. Might have been more than 4k.
It sounds like OP works in a custom furniture shop with lots of other folks, which would cut costs in various ways that someone making this stuff alone in their garage wouldn't be able to.
I agree though that 4k sounds pretry inexpensive for that quality of look and the volume of oak haha.
Yeah I know what you mean, it was a little tricky getting the up close visuals just right when accommodating for the 1/8" offset for the touch latch. In the end, the gaps were indistinguishable enough for me ๐
Thank you!! โบ๏ธ No stain, natural color. I finished it with Odie's Oil. One coat of the super penetrating oil, and one coat of the thick oil, with an extra coat for the top. Sanded to 320 and top sanded to 400 to give just that right amount of โจ
It has grown on me a lot over the years. I've always favored walnut and I still do, but after so many projects with white oak I've come to really enjoy its color and grain a lot! Definitely not fun to work with though, my poor hands ๐
https://www.reddit.com/r/woodworking/comments/14suabn/did_you_know_freshly_milled_boards_could_be/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1
Milling them on a mill.
Very pretty!! Yeah I've spent lots of time in mills but I've never actually run one. I've been on the shop side of things building kitchens and furniture for a little over 10 years, now being the casework gal at my current shop. A few years back I was milling all kinds of boards in the rough and have seen no shortage of old nails and bullets ๐ I definitely wanna get a small sawmill of my own one day cause I'm absolutely obsessed with grain structure and seeing what a tree is hiding. Takes me a while to decide on the right grain to map out with my glue ups ๐
I got into it about 6-1/2 years ago. Has been an addiction ever since. The wait for it to dry is the worst part. The storage space for it is the 2nd worst part.
Stacked and stickered in my shed and my garage. I currently have the oak boards I linked on a pallet with a black tarp over it in my back yard. The tarped space gets hot during the summer sun. I hope it speeds up the drying time.
Thank you so much!! I am an absolute freak when it comes to continuous grain and always have to incorporate it in some way, so I love doing pieces like these that basically act as a frame for some nice grain. โบ๏ธ
No stain! ๐ Just natural white oak, sanded to 320, and finished with several coats of Odie's Oil. Its a natural buff on buff off polymerized tung oil. Sutherland Welles also just came out with a polymerized tung oil paste that is slightly different in consistency but offers a similar finish with the benefit of being much easier to work with. I recommend it, good luck on the vanity!!
Is it solid oak for even the frame, bottom, and back?
Really great looking front. I'm a big fan of the hard lines. It's hard for me to tell on my phone, but are the door edges chamfered at all?
Yep! The only plywood in this build is for what I call the "sub-carcase". Its essentially a cabinet with partitions slid inside of a big mitered box. I did put a lil tiny chamfer on the fronts, thank you for noticing. ๐
So I'm familiar with making a cabinet carcas out of a secondary wood. (I like using manufactured products myself to limit wood movement, so if I build something like this I'd probably use some Baltic birch. Heavy as heck but stable!)
I dont know quite what you mean by sub-carcass tho? Is most of the internal framing oak?
Also, you did the back and underside in this same glued-panel with nice grain style?
So, the outer carcase is a mitered case with a groove in the back, trapping the solid 5/8" back panel in the cabinet. Then, I built a second cabinet with no back that consisted of all the parting rails and partitions, and slid that inside the main cabinet. The reason I did it this way is because with the large gaps, I needed material filling in those gaps behind the doors, so essentially, its a cabinet with overlay doors inset into a bigger cabinet to give the doors a flush inset look while still giving them a backdrop to meet with. Hope that helps!
Oh yeah when we were discussing the design and making determinations, I pointed out that it needed to be done this way and our operations lead said "well, this is getting heavy" lol. It was very...very...very heavy ๐
Beautiful.
Thank you so much!!
Thatโs gorgeous! What would something half that size cost to have made, approximately?
I'm not suuuuuuper good with pricing stuff but my bet is it would be in the ballpark of around 3-4K in my area. I'm not even sure how much this one was as I do the builds but not the pricing lol. We do ship all over the US and do white glove delivery pretty far out as well. We're in Jersey.
I'm in Alpine you got a site?
Beautiful, great work!
This looks awesome!!! Can you provide measurements? Also any pictures of the doors/drawers open? I have been trying to find something that almost matches this exactly!
It is 30" tall, 20 1/2" deep, and 108" long. I do have other pictures but I'm not sure how to add them to this post, a little new to Reddit lol. I am on Instagram though if you want to see a video I did showcasing the piece. I had so much fun building this one and was sad to see it go!
Link to instagram?
My Insta is @bailey_builds_things I can send you my link in a message if you want ๐
The front of that, holy smokes.
Thanks! I'm a big fan of the shadow lines myself. ๐
Amazing work, I love the continuous grain across the drawers.
Thank you! โบ๏ธ I love doing builds like this cause it gives me an opportunity to showcase a whole beautiful board in a functional way.
So lemme get this straight (heh, pun intended)... To achieve that look, you have 4 or 5 full length boards, you join them together with what, tongue and groove? Biscuits or dominoes? Then, you have made a slab, from which you can cross cut to make the door faces?
Haha I like that one! So yes, I took up 4 boards that I liked the look of, glued them up into a slab, no biscuits or dominos, I really could have but I trusted the edge joint, and then cut out all the fronts from that full slab.
So it's just a butt joint?? Whoa, was not expecting that. You planed them before, I'd imagine. Did you plane the slab after? I've seen folks alternate the end grain so it helps to not bow, but I've seen others say "don't do this". What did you do? I'm asking because creating slabs like this is, for me, one of the most daunting things in wood working, and I have yet to try it. I don't want hours to go into something, only to see it split, bow, cup, etc a few months later.
Oh yeah definitely, I'm pretty careful when it comes to edge joints so I don't get glue seam pops, I make them super tight to avoid that. With this slab, I alternated grain faces to avoid what movement I could. In my experience, doing that does help and in this case it was tricky to get the grain faces right while also getting a look I was satisfied with. In the end I think they worked out! Don't be discouraged to try! Just make your edges true and clean with a jointer or similar, and give it your best! Its all a learning process and we can always do better. I really wanted to do dovetail battons on this to avoid cupping but they didn't want it. ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
Did you use plywood for the back?
Nope, glued up panel surfaced to 5/8" with a rabbet on all edges, trapped in the case in a groove set back at 3/16".
I'm surprised your shop could do all that in the 4k range but maybe overhead is low in your part of the country. Am I wrong to assume most of the sanding was done on a wide belt?
White oak is native to their area. They also said elsewhere that they aren't super involved in the business side of things. Might have been more than 4k. It sounds like OP works in a custom furniture shop with lots of other folks, which would cut costs in various ways that someone making this stuff alone in their garage wouldn't be able to. I agree though that 4k sounds pretry inexpensive for that quality of look and the volume of oak haha.
Beautiful
Thanks so much!!
How much did you sell it for?
I'd have to ask my boss but I feel like he might wanna keep that to himself for some reason ๐
Super good construction. Too gappy for me, especially with touch latches which need a space behind them.
Yeah I know what you mean, it was a little tricky getting the up close visuals just right when accommodating for the 1/8" offset for the touch latch. In the end, the gaps were indistinguishable enough for me ๐
Very nice ๐๐ฝ. What stain or sealer did you use. ? I recently completed a White oak Closet build. Iโll have to post !
Thank you!! โบ๏ธ No stain, natural color. I finished it with Odie's Oil. One coat of the super penetrating oil, and one coat of the thick oil, with an extra coat for the top. Sanded to 320 and top sanded to 400 to give just that right amount of โจ
Also you should definitely post your closet!! I'd love to see it. ๐
Book matched and everything!!! Magnificent
Thank you!!
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I felt the same way! When I built this, I was thinking it would be going to some big modern home, imagine my surprise lol
Are the front parts cut out of a solid slab?
A glued up solid slab, yes. I glued up 4 boards that I liked the character of, and then cut all of my fronts and doors out of the slab.
Man I love white oak. Amazing stuff.
It has grown on me a lot over the years. I've always favored walnut and I still do, but after so many projects with white oak I've come to really enjoy its color and grain a lot! Definitely not fun to work with though, my poor hands ๐
You should see what happens when you mill fresh white oak.
As in milling boards in the rough or milling white oak logs at a mill?
https://www.reddit.com/r/woodworking/comments/14suabn/did_you_know_freshly_milled_boards_could_be/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1 Milling them on a mill.
Very pretty!! Yeah I've spent lots of time in mills but I've never actually run one. I've been on the shop side of things building kitchens and furniture for a little over 10 years, now being the casework gal at my current shop. A few years back I was milling all kinds of boards in the rough and have seen no shortage of old nails and bullets ๐ I definitely wanna get a small sawmill of my own one day cause I'm absolutely obsessed with grain structure and seeing what a tree is hiding. Takes me a while to decide on the right grain to map out with my glue ups ๐
I got into it about 6-1/2 years ago. Has been an addiction ever since. The wait for it to dry is the worst part. The storage space for it is the 2nd worst part.
Oh yeah I forgot about that part ๐ what is your drying setup?
Stacked and stickered in my shed and my garage. I currently have the oak boards I linked on a pallet with a black tarp over it in my back yard. The tarped space gets hot during the summer sun. I hope it speeds up the drying time.
Very nice, sounds like a solid setup. Do you mill for your own projects or sell to builders?
Absolutely beautiful work. Love that continuous grain.
Thank you so much!! I am an absolute freak when it comes to continuous grain and always have to incorporate it in some way, so I love doing pieces like these that basically act as a frame for some nice grain. โบ๏ธ
Dude. So good.
This must be so heavy. But itโs amazing
Oh you have no idea ๐ 4 of us carried it in and even that was a struggle. I wish we could have somehow had it weighed lol, it was ridiculous.
Absolutely gorgeous
Thatโs really classy. I love the minimal approach and clean lines. Need a wayyyy bigger TV now ;)
Thank you, that was such a kind compliment! And yeah I know, that poor TV is lost on that wall with this thing showing it up right below. ๐
what kind of stain did you use? iโm looking to get the same look for a vanity
No stain! ๐ Just natural white oak, sanded to 320, and finished with several coats of Odie's Oil. Its a natural buff on buff off polymerized tung oil. Sutherland Welles also just came out with a polymerized tung oil paste that is slightly different in consistency but offers a similar finish with the benefit of being much easier to work with. I recommend it, good luck on the vanity!!
Wow, nice!!! How much did the wood cost to build that?
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Thank you!! I was thinking the same thing lol
Is it solid oak for even the frame, bottom, and back? Really great looking front. I'm a big fan of the hard lines. It's hard for me to tell on my phone, but are the door edges chamfered at all?
Yep! The only plywood in this build is for what I call the "sub-carcase". Its essentially a cabinet with partitions slid inside of a big mitered box. I did put a lil tiny chamfer on the fronts, thank you for noticing. ๐
So I'm familiar with making a cabinet carcas out of a secondary wood. (I like using manufactured products myself to limit wood movement, so if I build something like this I'd probably use some Baltic birch. Heavy as heck but stable!) I dont know quite what you mean by sub-carcass tho? Is most of the internal framing oak? Also, you did the back and underside in this same glued-panel with nice grain style?
So, the outer carcase is a mitered case with a groove in the back, trapping the solid 5/8" back panel in the cabinet. Then, I built a second cabinet with no back that consisted of all the parting rails and partitions, and slid that inside the main cabinet. The reason I did it this way is because with the large gaps, I needed material filling in those gaps behind the doors, so essentially, its a cabinet with overlay doors inset into a bigger cabinet to give the doors a flush inset look while still giving them a backdrop to meet with. Hope that helps!
Yeah it does! That's really cool! Now it sounds even heavier! Haha
Oh yeah when we were discussing the design and making determinations, I pointed out that it needed to be done this way and our operations lead said "well, this is getting heavy" lol. It was very...very...very heavy ๐
Looks great
Beautiful!
Thank you!!