Armoire retrofit humidor project

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To this point, I have built all my panels and have installed them. Now, to confess to a woodworking sin. I didn't use oak for my panels. I used maple. I had a lot of 4/4 maple in house already so I decided I would resaw this and glue up some panels. Both panels will be completely hidden. Sacrilege, I know.



Funny, I cut down all my lumber to about 3/8" thickness. Then, I started looking around for clamps. I don't exactly have a lot of >40" clamps around.

Then, I started resawing spanish cedar. You can see here that I have glued up a lot of the spanish cedar in the top section of the cabinet.





I ran into a couple of problems with the actual glueup of the spanish cedar. First, I cut the spanish cedar down into 1/4" thickness by 3 or 4" wide slats, depending on the section. When glueing in the cedar, I noticed the pieces started to cup up a little. This shouldn't be too big of a deal and only I will probably notice it. I could sand it down, but probably wont. Next time, I will probably use less glue, instead of rolling glue on the entire surface. Second, because of the slight swelling, getting some of the pre-cut/pre-fit pieces to fit in the back didn't work out exactly. Not sure there is much to learn here other than to plan for it.

This is as far as I have made it. I hope to finish the bottom section as well as cut the wood for the doors. I will also buy the rails for the shelves and start more precisely plan the layout.

Thanks for any feedback.