RE: Wardrobe with carved art on the door /) furniture design

Greetings @lancang. How are you doing? What a beautiful furniture project! It's fortunate that you were still able to recycle the old doors of your mother's previous clothing cabinet. I'm particularly impressed by your detailed processes in its furniture assembly, most especially the types of chisels used for the wood carvings on the double doors. 😊

Some questions for you:

The original wardrobe doors with the carvings must be made of solid wood as plywood wouldn't be suitable for carvings, right? What type of wood species was originally used?
In coloring the various surfaces of the wardrobe cabinet, did you apply wood stain, lacquer thinner, and sanding sealer? Or did you use some kind of paint for the final finishes?
For the best results, how deep do you usually bury/embed the screws on the plywood parts before applying wood putty?

Greetings @storiesoferne i am very happy to hear you like this post..

The original wardrobe doors with the carvings must be made of solid wood as plywood wouldn't be suitable for carvings, right? What type of wood species was originally used?

that's right, in making carvings I have to use solid wood and for the wardrobe door I use teak wood, this wood is very suitable for carving because it has dense and smooth fibers so it's very easy when carving and also the results will be good compared to other types of wood, but there are also many other woods that are suitable for carving if the wood fibers are tight and smooth.

In coloring the various surfaces of the wardrobe cabinet, did you apply wood stain, lacquer thinner, and sanding sealer? Or did you use some kind of paint for the final finishes?

there are so many types of techniques in finishing the final result of the project, and all of them aim for a satisfactory final result, if you want the final finishing result to be perfect then the process must be carried out according to the painting procedure starting from using wood filler then wood stain then sanding sealer and finally using clear wood as a polish.

But I didn't do all of that, I only used wood filler on the entire surface of the project which aims to close all the wood pores and then I used a certain paint that is the same as the wood stain but this paint no longer needs to be melted with thinner (can be applied directly to the media), but I have to apply several layers to make it shiny and this can be a substitute for using wood clear.

For the best results, how deep do you usually bury/embed the screws on the plywood parts before applying wood putty?

in the process of assembling the products the screws used will be adjusted to the thickness of the wood, I often use 18 mm plywood so the screws I use have a length of 4.5 cm, and for the depth of the screw just 3mm and the screw will be attached to other parts 3 cm deep and this is already very strong especially I also always use glue in assembling a project, and a screw depth of 3 mm is ideal for caulking.

Thank you for asking about the process and technique of making my project, so I can share a little more experience that I may have forgotten to include in my post, thank you very much, have a nice day,,,😊