The cup board cup-board

The evolution of the cupboard started from a cup board, literally a plank on trestles at the side of the hall or living room, on which you placed your cup. This then developed into several tiers of planks seperated by stiles and rails, often carved/turned, to make a court cup-board. From this came the livery cupboard; a court cup-board with an enclosed, canted storage with door, on the upper tier. And further to a press cupboard, with storage on all tiers, finally growing in height, with taller doors; a modern cupboard we would recognise today.

So, the livery cupboard cupboard. The framing for the canted cupboard needs mouldings. For this I am using a scratch stock; a metal plate with the cross-section of the moulding cut into it, held in a timber stock. No moulding plane on this one.

This is then pulled/pushed along the edge of the timber to form the moulding. The moulding can be run out to nothing, which you can't do with a moulding plane, but not on this piece.

The front canted stiles...

are carved.

And the cup board cup-board, or is it cup-board cupboard, is joined and assembled.

I have some keys for the door. I just need to make a lock, but that's another story.