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Soul of Bespoke Cabinet Furniture Artistry Benjamin works on both his own designs and client commissions.

Benjamin crafts unique cabinetry, furniture, jewellery, boxes, home wares and stand alone artworks in his small workshop studio in Healesville, Victoria, Australia.

More updates on the gold leaf and painters signwriting tool carry cases for Lance Corlett Planning out all the joinery s...
22/10/2026

More updates on the gold leaf and painters signwriting tool carry cases for Lance Corlett

Planning out all the joinery sections for the feet connections into the plinth sections.

A mix of connection rebates and exposed lock pins.

Checking my joinery tolerances so I dont have clash issues with the cabinet button housings plus floating tenon mortises plus exposed miter splines.

These joinery sections will get made when the plinth miters are cut. The feet will be glued into the housings with fish glue.

Once the miters are cut for the plinth parts I'll machine in the span rail mortises.

Still more work drawings / planning to be conducted before further machining happens.

Heaps going on but making more progress.

Stay tuned for further updates.

More updates on the gold leaf and painters signwriting tool carry cases for Lance Corlett Cabinet hole jig made up for d...
22/10/2026

More updates on the gold leaf and painters signwriting tool carry cases for Lance Corlett

Cabinet hole jig made up for drill press. All holes are now drilled into the cabinet buttons.

I also completed the jig to machine the magnet housings for the back drawer box laminated catches. So all the magnet housings are machined. I had to use a 10.5mm dia cutter though magnets were 10mm dia. My 10mm cutter was blunt as hell. Im just gluing in the magnets into the housings with super glue and getting them central. Once dry / any excess glue is cleaned up. I laminated the two pieces with techni glue epoxy.

The magnets sit just below the laminate top surface by 0.2mm

I need to order more magnets tomorrow from my supplier. While I'm there I'll pick up the pan head screws / washers for the cabinet buttons.

These laminations are oversized and will be trimmed down later. After that the screw connection holes will be drilled/ counter sunk plus edges beveled. The connection rebate will be machined once the drawer boxes are assembled. I can't machine the final rebate depth till I know the exact depth of the drawer boxes.

Now up to planning out the connection feet joinery in the plinths. More info to follow in the next post with this.

Stay tuned for further updates.

More updates on the gold leaf and painters signwriting tool carry cases for Lance Corlett Both cutting jigs completed fo...
20/10/2026

More updates on the gold leaf and painters signwriting tool carry cases for Lance Corlett

Both cutting jigs completed for the x2 different width sizes of floating tenons for the drawer box cavity frames.

The floating tenons are pretty tiny ( 7mm long). I had to use a tri file to create the glue channels in them. All of them are cut now and I've almost finished putting the glue channels in.

I did a test fit of the runner guides to the cavity frames. We are slightly over desired size by .5mm. This doesn't matter as the drawer box front/ back panels are oversized plus I can adjust the wenge opening edgings. If it was under desired size I'd adjust guide rail internal faces.

Lego Grogu making an appearance once again to show scale. Ill mainly use tooth picks to apply the glue here.

Glue channels also machined into the plinth floating tenons but only half way. ( the section that gets glued into the plinth parts)

Next up more work on the back magnetic catches for the drawer boxes and the cabinet buttons for the plinths.

Making more progress stay tuned for further updates.

More updates on the gold leaf and painters signwriting tool carry cases for Lance CorlettMachining the Iron bark floatin...
17/10/2026

More updates on the gold leaf and painters signwriting tool carry cases for Lance Corlett

Machining the Iron bark floating tenons from scrap stock in shop.

All the floating tenons are machined to size and rounded over for the plinth sections. I just need to machine a glue channel in them but only have way as these just get glued into the plinth sections not the actual case base panels.

All the floating tenon bar stock is machined for the x2 sizes for the drawer box guide rails.

Im just in the process of making a cutting jig that will safely cut these down into 7mm long pieces on the drop saw.

Alot of processes moving along on this job in the workshop studio.

Stay tuned for further updates.

More updates on the gold leaf and painters signwriting tool carry cases for Lance Corlett Checking final positioning of ...
17/10/2026

More updates on the gold leaf and painters signwriting tool carry cases for Lance Corlett

Checking final positioning of cabinet buttons. Soon I'll make pedestal drilling jig and machine holes in the buttons.

Router mortise jig completed for the floating tenon mortises for the drawer box guide rails.

Its a mix of left and right set ups for the painters and gold leaf guide rails.

All mortises are machined in the guide rails. Normally you have the longer mortise in the frame but I had to do it the other way because of limited spacing between the side connection mortises in the cavity frames.

When the ends of the cavity frames are final trimmed to their size I'll final dock the guide rails and finish off beveling the outside edges on the upside down router.

Next up is to machine the Iron Bark floating tenons for these joinery sections plus for the plinth sections.

Stay tuned for further updates.

More updates on the gold leaf and painters signwriting tool carry cases for Lance Corlett Finished off beveling the main...
13/10/2026

More updates on the gold leaf and painters signwriting tool carry cases for Lance Corlett

Finished off beveling the main edges for the plinth cabinet buttons. Ill make the drilling jig next and start drilling the connection holes. Ill also need to put in an order for black washers/ 4G black pan head screws.

Top and side edges for the drawer box guide rails are all cleaned up.

Skim route to square up Jarrah laminations completed on the guide rails. I was only needing to take off 0.2mm. Front fence was slightly lower to back fence which made pushing the guide rails through easier.

Next up was to bevel the Jarrah lamination edges. I used a sled plus a front fence set up for the second pass. I needed to make a new router fence for this large 45 deg bevel cutter. These set ups were needed since routering internal edges on a 'L' shaped prism.

I squared the ends up ( removed 5mm each end) on the drop saw. The guide rails are still over their finished length dimension. I just needed square ends for when resting up against the screw adjustment stops when in the router jig.

Further measurements worked out for the guide rail mortise joinery in connection to the drawer box cavity opening measurements.

So I'm assembling these carry cases in a non standard manner ( though makes sense). The guide rails and front magnetic catches get attached to the cavity frame ( after final trim) before the main case structure goes together. This means that the drawer boxes get made before the main case goes together.

Reason the drawer box cavity openings are extremely small limiting clamps getting in effectively more so for the assembly of the guide rails. I need to make sure the front and back magnetic catches work for the drawer boxes and its easier to make tweaks if it isn't in a major case assembly.

This also means the guide rails sit in away from the drawer box cavity frame edge by 0.3mm. Plus the guide rails get further tweaked sanded for a perfect fit. Outer side wall of guide 4.7mm, base section 5mm ( since a 0.3mm shoulder not being used) this is to ensure a 0.7mm gap reveal around drawer box front panel.

More info in comments.

More updates on the gold leaf and painters signwriting tool carry cases for Lance Corlett Jarrah laminations for the dra...
10/10/2026

More updates on the gold leaf and painters signwriting tool carry cases for Lance Corlett

Jarrah laminations for the drawer box guide rails sent through the drum sander to bring further down. The reference set up with the drawer front panel shows a reveal gap of 1mm so I still need to bring down with future tweaking. In my insta story's I mentioned bringing it to 0.7mm. I might lower it slighly more to 0.5mm.

All laminations are now glued to the New Guinea Rosewood drawer box guide rail sections. Ill trim the ends next week.

Ive just left the Jarrah laminations 0.5mm oversize in thickness. Ill actually need to lightly skim route them on the upside down router. I originally said I wouldn't do this but the parts did manage to straighten out. Plus the laminations in some areas didn't quite press in square potentially not suitable clamp pressure or unwanted pressure in other areas. So the skim route will correct this. I have a different set up planed that will give accurate results. ( more on that in the next post next week). The skim is like about 0.3mm.

The cabinet button rebates are machined. Photos show the slight step I was talking about that when screwed in it acts like a clamp pushing the plinth sections down tight to the case base panel.

So due to this top step and slight gap in mortise between base of cabinet button and mortise edge ( 0.2 to 0.3mm) the cabinet button wants to tilt. So the pressure of the screw places pressure on the button rebate onto the mortise edge thus pushing plinth section down.

In the process of beveling the bulk edges of the cabinet buttons on the upside down router. The smaller edges I'll do by hand. Next will be drilling the screw clearance holes.

Also in the process of planning out the feet connection sections for the plinths which ill discuss this more next week.

Stay tuned for further updates.

More updates on the gold leaf and painters signwriting tool carry cases for Lance Corlett Further breaking down the New ...
08/10/2026

More updates on the gold leaf and painters signwriting tool carry cases for Lance Corlett

Further breaking down the New Guinea Rosewood stock for the bulk section of the drawer box guide rails.

After bandsawing the parts they got drum sanded to their final oversized dimensions. ( they will be brought further down after the Jarrah laminations are glued in / trimmed flush)

Machining out the bulk waste of the guide rails on the table saw so I can use offcuts. These will get used for other parts later on.

I just left a little bit of waste to get machined out on the upside down router table.

I first used x2 fences to get the parts up right ( preventing the possibility of tilt) but abandoned this idea. This is because due to a large amount of stock being taken away from the guide rails there was some tension realise / parts slightly warped. ( nothing to majorily worry about as it will all pull out once assembled). So this set up I couldn't get proper pressure when machining.

I changed setup to a saw slot cutter and removed waste with a few passes. ( I was able to obtain better holding pressure here) A tiny bit of snipe/ chip out but will go away once sanded down/ docked to size.

I originally made the Jarrah laminations oversized in thickness as I planned on maching this again through router set up once glued in. Since parts are slightly warped I won't go this approach as I need these sections as clean as possible / a uniform rebate. So I'll drum sand the laminations further and just leave about 0.3mm oversize for a few stroke sanding passes on a clamped down sanding caul.

These parts need to go through a long list of processes so I need to try and get some of this warp out to make things easier. So instead of originally going to use fish glue to glue the Jarrah laminations into New Guinea Rosewood pieces I'll use Techni Glue epoxy due to its rigid glue line. It won't get all warp out but hopefully will lower it more than what it is.

A few of the last photos show rail, magnet catch placements/ wenge edging placements ( just using smaller pieces to show placements as long pieces won't fit in since end spline sections need to be notched out)

More updates on the gold leaf and painters signwriting tool carry cases for Lance Corlett Mini cabinet buttons. :) It mi...
04/10/2026

More updates on the gold leaf and painters signwriting tool carry cases for Lance Corlett

Mini cabinet buttons. :)

It might seem over kill with the amount needed but remember these screws will be 4g at about 18mm long ( though pan head with washers). Though in all honesty if you scaled this up to a dining table size the needed positioning would be correct.

Build for the un expected since this is a tool carry case. With this kind of work I build it to be abused. Not that the final care taker will be careless but design/ build it account for any unexpected scenario. Ie being dragged, knocked, bumped, pushed etc. Especially since this gets taken on site.

Im also in the middle of machining more New Guinea Rosewood which will be for the main drawer box guide structure pieces. The Jarrah laminations will be glued onto these which I noted in a previous post.

Added for higher Janka rating compared to New Guinea Rosewood but not wanting the whole structure Jarrah so not to be too heavy.

Heaps going on now with multiple different parts being processed.

Stay tuned for further updates.

More updates on the gold leaf and painters signwriting tool carry cases for Lance Corlett Breaking down the New Guinea R...
04/10/2026

More updates on the gold leaf and painters signwriting tool carry cases for Lance Corlett

Breaking down the New Guinea Rosewood lamination stock for the back magnetic drawer box stops. The magnets sit inside these pieces in a housing. Similar to the wenge front magnetic catches for the drawer boxes/ drawer box cavity frames.

Ill follow the same processing I did for the wenge magnetic catches.

Some photos show the drawer box cavity frames that have housings at the back where these stops will be located.

I aso cut down all the cabinet buttons to final size. I can now start to machine the rebates in them / bevel edges plus drill screw connection holes. Ill need to make a few jigs for these processes.

Parts are labelled for the plinths to show what correct arrangement they need to be in. In the previous posts the positioning was in reverse.

Stay tuned for further updates.

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