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I promised my girlfriend that I'd make her a new nightstand some time ago, and yesterday I finally had the time to do it. And it being Valentine's and all it also proved to be a perfect gift :)
Let me show you how I made this curved cabinet...
Let me show you how I made this curved cabinet...
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The plan is to make a curved cabinet, divided equally into 4 spaces. Two are accessible from the front, and the other two from the side. This way you can have some stuff within reach when you're lying in bed as well.
I made this cabinet 900mm high, because of the standard sizes for MDF that I can easily buy here. You can change all the dimensions to your liking, these are just used as an example.
The curve is consistent, so all the arcs have the same curve and size. If you print out (or draw) 1 part of the arc to scale (4th image below) you can trace all the curved lines onto the wood, by rotating and mirroring the piece.
I made the cabinet from 9mm thick MDF and a thin 0,4mm 'MDF cardboard' (this is how we call it). You can also use a thicker MDF or wood for the main structure, and perhaps a thin, bendable triplex for the curved shape.
Draw the curved shape onto the MDF/wood and mark which pieces you want to cut out.
I made this cabinet 900mm high, because of the standard sizes for MDF that I can easily buy here. You can change all the dimensions to your liking, these are just used as an example.
The curve is consistent, so all the arcs have the same curve and size. If you print out (or draw) 1 part of the arc to scale (4th image below) you can trace all the curved lines onto the wood, by rotating and mirroring the piece.
I made the cabinet from 9mm thick MDF and a thin 0,4mm 'MDF cardboard' (this is how we call it). You can also use a thicker MDF or wood for the main structure, and perhaps a thin, bendable triplex for the curved shape.
Draw the curved shape onto the MDF/wood and mark which pieces you want to cut out.
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Thank you so much for this. Duly favorited. :)
Curvy things like that are wonderful because they don't look like they came in flat pack from Ikea.
its 9 mm for the shelves and 4 mm for the side panels
0.4 mm is the thickness of a latex sheet.....
looking for mdf af 0.4 mm would be kinda dangerous.... even if you would go to to gnome office :)
Sincerely,
Jean-PIerre
Federal Way, WA
The material is called "MDF cardboard" here so I guess technically it's not really MDF but more like a cardboard with wood fibers or maybe just a brown color, I'm not sure.
I wouldn't try bending 4mm MDF by the way, that's going to be way too difficult to keep in place, even with superglue.
Check the picture. The ruler is in mm. If you can't get this material where you live I would suggest the thinnest MDF you can find, or to use triplex.
Greetings,
Thomas
Here, allow me to add the word amateur, that should double the hits.
You should see my room, all the stuff I made myself is curvy.
In step 1 you state that you have used 9mm and 0,4 mm MDF. I assume 9mm is for the shelves and 0,4 for the side panels?