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Cart Top

Spring 2025 · The Lab

A bespoke cart top built in The Lab — documented from raw construction through to finished surface.

Primed white cart-top box in the workshop with a column of square cut-out wells, a large open well and a round hole
White cart-top box on casters with a grid of square cup-well cut-outs and a round hole, in the workshop
Angled view of the white cart top showing a 4-by-3 grid of scalloped rectangular cup wells and a round hole
A clear plastic food-pan container used as a template on a plywood worktable beside a carpenter's square and marker
Plywood sheet marked with a pencil grid and rounded-rectangle outlines, a drywall T-square and marker laid on top
Plywood cart top marked with a grid and circles, several circular cup-hole grooves started with a router
Plywood cart top with routed circle outlines and pilot holes across a penciled grid, sawdust on the surface
Plywood cart top with circular cup holes cut through in a grid, resting on the white cart base
Plywood cart-top panel with a grid of circular cup holes cut through it
Ryobi trim router sitting on the plywood cart top mid-cut, among rectangular wells and circular cup holes
Corner joinery detail of the cart box showing a piano hinge and a painted gray frame edge over raw plywood
Close-up of countersunk screw heads along the plywood edge of the cart frame
Finished glossy white cart top with a 3-by-4 grid of scalloped rectangular cup wells, against a spray-booth drape
White-painted cart-top panel with a grid of rectangular cup-well cut-outs, propped beside the spray-booth drape
Gray-primed cart top in the spray booth with a column of square wells, a large open well and a round hole