Livery cupboard assembly

So assembly of the livery cupboard can begin. There are a lot of small elements which can't be finalised until this stage. Wide boards to plane for the three different levels.

Mouldings to run and chop. Backgrounds to remove and punch.

 

There are mortice and tenons to drill and drawbore.

And more nails than you would expect.

There's a fair way to go yet. I had to start riving again, for the framing for the canted cupboard itself. Until the framing for the top deck was assembled, I wasn't sure exactly where the front of the cupboard would come to.

 

With all the oak we use, I reckon it's good to put something back. So we're in overdrive collecting and planting acorns. I won't be around to harvest them when they are grown, but the grandchildren might.