28-05-2019, 03:01 PM
(28-05-2019, 11:59 AM)Terry Wrote:(28-05-2019, 10:58 AM)boater sam Wrote: The trim echoes the cabinet shape, the sides have a significant slope. Cutting the corners back to a near right angle would be tricky, the glass may not be fully covered.
I beg to differ, Sam.
You posted some pictures of the cabinet in post #13 and I've been looking at the one without the trim. The cabinet is definitely trapezoidal but the dial cutout most definitely does not echo it!
I've taken that picture and overlaid a rectangle on it:
Now the camera is not perpendicular to the front of the cabinet as evidence by the underside view of the top through the cutout. This tilt alone will add distortion to the shape and we can also see that the top and bottom of the cutout diverge, although common sense says that, in reality, they are parallel. So, is there is any distortion, it will be very small and accurate measurements of the width of the opening at top and bottom - or another picture with a protractor laying on the top - will, in my opinion, show very little distortion, if any.
As for the glass not being fully covered if the corners are cut back, only the rebate needs to be cut back and, as is clearly visible in the pictures, the central cutout already has square corners, as I am sure will the glass!
Terry, you are right.
Its an optical illusion compounded by my glasses, I have 2 astigmatisms, its a rectangle not a trapezium. Thank you for correcting. I didn't think my photos were so good!
I have still not given up completely on the trim being remodeled. Cutting the corners out is not what I would wish to do, its not reversible and it offends my spirit of originality somewhat.
Mulling over bending aluminium square bar, or plastic if I can find any about 10mm or, radically, using a piece of white rope.
Routering out of MDF would be testing and fragile, thick plastic sheet would be better but I don't have any and would a router cope?
Boater Sam.
