#Post-project through the craftsman's eye

One might notice that the rails and stiles of the hutch don't match as well as the ones on the cabinet. There's a simple reason for this: I had to replace the stiles; more than half of the first ones I made, cut from the same rough board as the rails, bowed to an unacceptable degree.

It's difficult to see in this picture, but I had to widen the left two of the doors. I've rechecked my math against the plans and the actual cabinet and I don't know where the extra half inch comes from, but I ended up having to widen two of the doors by a quarter inch each. I did so by adding a strip to the hinge-side stiles.

The walnut ply I used was Good One Side (G1S), so you get a paneled walnut obverse and some kind of pinkish orange something on the reverse...I think it's Louan but that information is apparently classified. The side panels were going to show that back on the inside there, so I took some of my scrap and just added another ply. If the plywood was a true 1/4" it wouldn't have worked, but being thinner than that it came out pretty okay.

And, looking at it now, I kinda wish I had made the top a bit wider so it would stick out the front a little more. Going for the simple elegant shaker look I did absolutely no cornice work but I do wish it had maybe another inch or so of wood up there. Wouldn't be impossible to implement but I think I am moving on to other things.