High Carpathian Cabinet: Cutlist & Drawings

This is what you paid for (plus the septic tank humor).

Here are the (draft) plans and cutting list for the High Carpathian Wall Cabinet, the first project for “The American Peasant.” Below you will find a link to a pdf that has a dimensioned drawing and a complete cutting list.

The way I present construction information on a project is different than an architectural drawing or a print that I make for a machinist. When you create blueprints, they are supposed to be self-contained. Anyone picking up the blueprints should be able to build the thing using the drawings.

I have worked that way in the past, but I took another path when we started Lost Art Press.

My construction drawings work together with the cutting list and the text. One has to read all three in order to be able to build the project as shown. The construction drawing shows the dimensions that are independent of the cutting list (such as how high the shelves are off the bottom). The cutting list has all the part sizes, but it doesn’t explain the joinery. The text marries all thre…