Jim dePrado
07-18-2012, 9:00 AM
I have a stupid question that I have been struggling with over the past couple of days. I want to build a cabinet to serve as an outfeed table for my table saw (It will also house my router table). I recently built other cabinets for my shop and they came out OK. All of the cabinets that I have built for the shop have the sides of the cabinets flush with the insides of the face frame. This made drawer installation very easy for me.
I have never built cabinets with a tongue and groove so I have decided to use that method for project to see how it goes. On two side of the cabinets I have some drawers planned. The front would be against the tablesaw. On the back I would like to put a decorative panel, similar to ones I have seen in kitchens (as practice for a potential kitchen cabinet build in the future). If that back panel is flush to the outside of the sides of the faceframe, how do I build up the insides so I can add drawer slides? The same question for internal partitions. I can make the partition flush to one side, but I will have to build up the other side.
I was planning on using 2" rails and stiles (not married to this idea completely but it is what I did on the other shop cabinets). If I do use 2" and flush up the 3/4" partition or outside panel that leaves me with 1.25" to make both flush. Using Marc Sommerfeld's T&G set, I can easily make a plywood runner so that both sides would be flush, but there would be a 1/2" gap between the runner and the partition. How do I fill that gap? A piece of 1/2" Ply? Or can I just attach the runner to the faceframe, with the T&G, and somehow attach it to the back of the cab leaving the 1/2" gap between them?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have started to draw the cabinet out in Sketchup to help me visualize the problem, but haven't come up with anything yet and thought I would ask the experts here at SMC.
Thanks,
Jim
I have never built cabinets with a tongue and groove so I have decided to use that method for project to see how it goes. On two side of the cabinets I have some drawers planned. The front would be against the tablesaw. On the back I would like to put a decorative panel, similar to ones I have seen in kitchens (as practice for a potential kitchen cabinet build in the future). If that back panel is flush to the outside of the sides of the faceframe, how do I build up the insides so I can add drawer slides? The same question for internal partitions. I can make the partition flush to one side, but I will have to build up the other side.
I was planning on using 2" rails and stiles (not married to this idea completely but it is what I did on the other shop cabinets). If I do use 2" and flush up the 3/4" partition or outside panel that leaves me with 1.25" to make both flush. Using Marc Sommerfeld's T&G set, I can easily make a plywood runner so that both sides would be flush, but there would be a 1/2" gap between the runner and the partition. How do I fill that gap? A piece of 1/2" Ply? Or can I just attach the runner to the faceframe, with the T&G, and somehow attach it to the back of the cab leaving the 1/2" gap between them?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have started to draw the cabinet out in Sketchup to help me visualize the problem, but haven't come up with anything yet and thought I would ask the experts here at SMC.
Thanks,
Jim