Please critique my design concept, shown in the attached two files.
The isometric pic shows the shelf-and-garage unit, which abuts a run of frameless wallcabs on one side, and an endwall on the other. The pic doesn’t show the tambour door unit, but I believe I have allowed enough room for a kit to be installed.
The unit is faceframed with 2-3/8-width members to match size of stiles and rails on adjacent doors. The top view pic shows in section, the faceframe brought out to be flush with doors. For mounting the tambour unit, there is 1-1/8″ of side width inside, and 1-5/8″ at top.
Since the back and sides of the unit come down to sit on the countertop, and are thus unsupported by any frame or backing, I was figuring them as 3/4″ plywood.
Adjoining the wallcab, we will block with 1/2″ thickness, and the 1/2″ overhang on the wall side should give us some scribe-to-fit capability.
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Greetings Stinger,
This post, in response to your question, will bump the thread through the 'recent discussion' listing again.
Perhaps it will catch someones attention that can help you with advice.
If you can repost your diagrams without using Adobe it will be easier timewise for dialups to view them.
Cheers
sleeps till noon but before it's dark...
Jeez, Rez, ya gotta get a faster computer! If you have problems with 2K & 3K files I don't know how you're gonna handle those huge 25K jpegs <grin>.
I'm guessing that the slowness you are experiencing is a slow load of Acrobat Reader from your local disk. I noticed a bit of a dely as well, and I have a high speed link.
Ya, wondered what was the deal with that small file.
I'm on high speed here and it took quite a while so I figured it'd be a killer on a dialup.
sleeps till noon but before it's dark...
Stinger,
I totally understand what you are working through. I just put the first coat of finish on my appliance garage. Using frameless as well.
My design has all end units "framed" with a 3/4" trim piece flush with the front edge of the doors/drawers. So, I followed the same approach for the appliance garage. It is under the only section of shallow (12") overheads. One end is against the oven/microwave cabinet and the other end is a finish end.
I ended up triming out the tambour doors with 3/4" square material (actually 13/16" to allow for door thickness plus 1/16" door bumpers). The horizontal piece was made from a piece of scrap 1-1/4" x 1-1/2" that is relieved in the back at a 45 degree angle to allow for the curve of the tambour door while giving me something to screw into the shelf above.
I will also be putting in 1/4" panel along the back wall and both sides so I don't need to look at the back side of the tambour door and the track flange when it's open.
I realize I'm not explaining this too well so here are some pics. I'll post some better pics tomorrow once it is finished and back in place.
FYI, the door and rails came from http://www.woodworkershardware.com - great folks, great service, very good prices and an amazing variety - the hard copy catalog is 392 pages!
Wayne