Ken,
The main horizontal beam on a Moog lower cabinet is glued into slots on each side.
I'll have to check if it is visible. There is one brace in the middle of the beam
connecting to the bottom of the cabinet. This evening I can send out one of the
pics I took showing the flat rails that also shows the joint at the side of the
cabinet.
Eric
--- "Tkacs, Ken" <
ken.tkacs@...> wrote:
>
> Eric, can you (or one of you other Moog console owners) answer a question
> for me?
>
> You know how the tapped metal rails, to which the modules attach, are held
> to horizontal wooden beams that support them? How do these beams attach to
> the cabinet sides?
>
> I'm crumpling up lots of paper trying to figure out how ∗least∗ to show
> anything but unblemished hardwood on the outsides. I'm trying to achieve a
> "zero visible fastener" look, that may be impossible or misguided.
>
> The easiest method which is probably mechanically the strongest is to just
> sink big furniture screws into the beams from the outside of the cabinet.
> But that leaves big screw heads. Unless you sink them with a Forstner bit
> and then use a plug cutter to make some discs to cover the heads, trying to
> match the grain, etc.
>
> Then I thought about surrounding the beams with "L" brackets on three sides.
> Prevents the screwheads from showing, but then the screws need to be short
> enough not to poke through the sides. That limits how 'thin' one can make
> the side panels (I know that Moog used big �" wood, but I was hoping to get
> that down to 5/8" or even �" since my individual cabinet 'modules' will be
> smaller and wont need the support of �" wood).
>
> THEN I started working on this whole system of rabbets, dovetails,
> blocking... finally pulling my hair out.
>
> So I wanted to just pause at this point and ask, "What did ol' "R.A." do
> with the Moog Modular?"
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
>
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