
The bedroom chest is finally finished. I seem to say that about every project. My first post was in January of 2017, so it took five years. This is the first time I made frame and panel doors, or sliding doors.















The bedroom chest is finally finished. I seem to say that about every project. My first post was in January of 2017, so it took five years. This is the first time I made frame and panel doors, or sliding doors.
“The weight of the door rests on the rabbet, not on the part of the door that fits into the track. The door does not touch the bottom of the track, so dust and crud in the track should not have much effect on the door’s movement.” If I understand clearly what you’ve written, between the tongue and the groove, there is a gap. I don’t see, however, how this alone reduces the problems of crud and accumulation in groove. For this arrangement, keeping the groove cleaned out occasionally is still necessary. Did you consider drilling a through hole to allow for any such accumulation to move easily drop out through normal opening and closing actions? I’ve pondered how to best implement a sliding door section and my main problem is that any new user would need to relearn how to maintain this mechanism properly. I really like your decision to orient the foor panels horizontally in this arrangement. Would you mind posting some images of the wheels and the skirt arrangements work and how you came up with such a design if it’s not too much of a hurdle
Yes, the tongue does not fill the groove, so there is a space at the bottom of the groove. Time will tell how well this works. It seems like a lot of crud will have to accumulate before it will affect the movement, and even then it will mainly affect closing at the ends. It also seems like the need for cleaning will be pretty obvious, and a pretty half-dash cleaning job will suffice to get it working again. If the tongue bottomed out in the groove it wouldn’t take much crud to degrade the delightful smooth motion of the doors, and the cleaning would have to be better done. The idea of drilling “drainage holes” did not occur to me. It seems like it would probably work, except for maybe hair? But I think it would look funny. I posted an underside shot showing the skirt and wheels. Are you asking how I came up with that idea? I wanted to hide the unsightly wheels. I have seen office furniture with invisible wheels, so the idea of putting wheels behind the skirt was obvious. But we needed to be able to access the brakes on the back wheels, so I had to leave a space for the back wheels outside the skirt.
All I can say is that it is beautiful and beyond my capacity to create.