Cabinet maker suggestions - rift cut walnut, grain matched slab doors
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Comments (14)Rockybird - I think it depends on how wild the graining in the wood is. The wilder the grainer, the more apparent a deliberate mismatch is. Sochi's lovely cabs (I think) are plain-sawn walnut, and so the graining is pretty wild. I think for Sochi's application, it would be visually distracting to have an intentional visual break since the pattern is so swirly and unique. If you are going with plain-sawn walnut, my guess is that any mismatch on slab fronts will be instantly noticeable by the eye. My kitchen cabs below are quarter-sawn walnut, and so the graining is more subtle. Because the graining is more subtle, the deliberate break in the graining with the trash-pullout (which goes vertically instead of horizontally) is more muted and less apparent. I have some cabs in another part of the house which use plain-sawn walnut, so the pattern is a bit more swirly than the quarter-sawn walnut in the kitchen. (alas our plain-sawn walnut is unfortunately not as heroic and drama filled as the veneers in Sochi's kitchen!) For cost reasons, we decided not to try and match up all the grains. So, in order to visually distract the eye from seeing the mismatch in grain, out design called for horizontal kerfs to be milled into the drawer faces, which you can see below overpowers any visual sense of grain mismatch....See MoreCabinetry brand for rift oak slab cabinets
Comments (44)@carii thank you for sharing your lovely kitchen, I would never have found Space.Theory without this thread! We're now getting a quote from them, too. I am also in Marin County and we're going through this same process of pricing out all our options for a very similar look to your kitchen. Would you mind sharing the information of the custom cabinet maker you got your quote from with the Shinnoki veneers? Thank you! Jess...See MoreHow to accentuate the natural grain of walnut cabinets?
Comments (16)A woodworker and carpenter still is not a cabinet maker. A cabinet maker has mastered finishing in their shop. With modern dyes, and modern 2K finishes. Having that crappalicious terrible quality piece as a goal should be pretty low down on the list of goals. It used “rustic” rejects as a feature, instead of putting them in the scrap heap. LOL... cabinet making is fairly remedial for a woodworker and probably for a finish carpenter, if that carpenter has the necessary tools. An amateur level woodworker could produce cabinets that are just as well made as any cabinet shop. They will not produce them as quickly and they will not produce them as efficiently, but their quality will be as good or better. You are comparing a painter to an artist and claiming that experience in painting a house equates to a better understanding of color. It doesn't. You could probably make a legit claim that a cabinet maker will have the edge on a woodworker for paints, but that reverses for wood grains. I don't know any woodworker who would struggle to get walnut to pop. If I had time I would just go old school and pop it with LSO. If I had less time I would do an LSO and Poly mix. If I needed the grain to pop and had labor but no time, I would hit it with a dark dye and light sand-off. If I had no time I would just hit it with an orange dye. It is finishing that way because it was kiln dried rather than air dried and there are a thousand ways that experienced woodworkers fix kiln dried before finishing, but all experienced woodworkers fix kiln dried. ETA: You are not going to get the cathedral effect from quarter sawn Walnut, but that is either a picture taken with a softening filter active on the camera or kiln dried Walnut that no one thought to fix....See MoreWalnut cabinet grain
Comments (16)@labellenina - I am an experienced woodworker and if someone said "matching slabs" on my slab cabinet order I would think that meant sequentially matched slabs (which is what you are looking for). Despite what people are telling you, you have bookmatched veneer slabs. You can clearly see th bookmatched grain. What you don't have is bookmatched sequential slabs. Cabinetmakers may charge for sequencing slabs, but it is not a great deal more expensive to get a few 96" x 48" sequenced veneer sheets. If I call my veneer supplier today and asked for a couple of good sequenced walnut veneers, someone is going to go out and manually check a couple of sheets (which will likely sequence anyway). I am going to pay extra for 96 x 48 (rather than 48 x 96) but I am going to get two sheets with a decent sequence match at no extra charge. I think they are a remake at your cabinetmaker's expense. However, your cabinetmaker may disagree....See MoreMinardi
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