Cabinets with raised panels

Two worlds collided when I made these cabinets for the Faith and Reflection room in one of the units at Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust.

The carcasses are of ash-veneered MDF with substantial solid edgings formed into a traditional framework giving great rigidity to the piece.

The doors are solid ash with hand-cut raised and fielded panels set into frames.

The top and under-frame are of African Padauk, the top being jointed from two long narrow pieces - a painstaking operation using a traditional hand plane to produce perfectly straight mating edges for an invisible join.

The most daunting part of this job - probably because it came close to the end, with the possibility of ruining a lot of work -  was hand-cutting the very small keyholes in each door.