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most of the parts for the door from the same piece of wood

so that the color would be as close as possible.

Mortising With a Template

I began the joinery work with the through mortise-and-tenon

joints at the bottom of the case sides. I made a template from

(^1) ⁄ 2 "-thick plywood, which helped me locate the mortises and
the arched cut-outs. I cut the mortises in the template with a
(^1) ⁄ 2 "-diameter bit in my plunge router, guided by the router’s
fence, and squared the ends with a chisel and a rasp.
I could have used this same method on the actual cabinet
sides, but by using the template I only had to do the layout
work once, and if I slipped with the plunge router, the damage
would be to a piece of plywood, not my finished end panel.
With the template clamped to the bottom of the end panel,
I drilled most of the mortise with a^3 ⁄ 8 " Forstner bit, and then
used a router with a flush trim bit to trim the sides of the mor-
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