Monday, March 5, 2012

Cabinetmaking not just job for top carpenters

Ordinary storage items - shelves, chests, cabinets - can beobjects of great beauty.

If you're a fan of the public television series "This Old House"and "The New Yankee Workshop," you've watched carpenter Norm Abram,week after week, turn out simple, elegant cabinetry and furniturewith precision and dispatch.

Abram's fans probably can be divided into two camps: Those whosereaction is, "I could do that!" and those whose reaction is, "Icould never do that!"

Although it is considerably more complicated than stripping anewel post or replacing a floorboard, and a lot more delicate thanframing a wall, cabinetmaking is not out of the question for thereasonably …

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