roger wiegand
02-22-2017, 10:05 AM
It's been four years since we moved, and the shop has been a mess ever since. I do enough work on the shop to enable the next phase of work on the house, and then it sits until I can justify spending more time on the shop. Now that I've retired there's some more time to go around, so I decided to take on the mess of junk piled on every surface everywhere, and reclaim my bench from being the place where the SCMS ended up.
The cabinets are euro-style, made out of 3/4" plywood, the drawers are all baltic birch, drawer fronts and the countertop is prefinished maple ply. The cabinets and top are edged in cherry. My stamina failed me and I did not edge the drawer fronts in cherry as well, and just edge banded them. I suppose I can go back and do that later if I ever find myself with too much time on my hands. Drawers are all mounted on heavy duty Blum undermount full extension glides.
My old SCMS works great and is very accurate, but has lousy dust collection. I made the curved hood behind it with a piece of left over bendy ply. Still, only half the sawdust goes into the DC. Perhaps someday I will upgrade to a saw that is designed for better dust collection.
The end of the counter run turns out to be a good place to mount my bench grinder, perhaps two and a half steps from the lathe rather than just one, but still much better than the wobbly chair it's been sitting on!
In the course of this project I developed a lot of respect for the guys who build nice kitchen cabinets at a reasonable price and on a schedule! I'd never made 28 drawers in one go before, and I'm not particularly anxious to do it again.
Next phase is a week or two of sorting a 40 year accumulation of hardware and small parts into plastic bins from the Uline and thinking about how to use the wall and floor space that will open up when I get rid of the shelves that have been holding said hardware.
Oh-- one drawer has a cherry front because I came up short and was darned if I was going to make another trip to Boulter and buy another full sheet of the prefinished maple ply for one little drawer front!
354585 354586 354587 354588
The cabinets are euro-style, made out of 3/4" plywood, the drawers are all baltic birch, drawer fronts and the countertop is prefinished maple ply. The cabinets and top are edged in cherry. My stamina failed me and I did not edge the drawer fronts in cherry as well, and just edge banded them. I suppose I can go back and do that later if I ever find myself with too much time on my hands. Drawers are all mounted on heavy duty Blum undermount full extension glides.
My old SCMS works great and is very accurate, but has lousy dust collection. I made the curved hood behind it with a piece of left over bendy ply. Still, only half the sawdust goes into the DC. Perhaps someday I will upgrade to a saw that is designed for better dust collection.
The end of the counter run turns out to be a good place to mount my bench grinder, perhaps two and a half steps from the lathe rather than just one, but still much better than the wobbly chair it's been sitting on!
In the course of this project I developed a lot of respect for the guys who build nice kitchen cabinets at a reasonable price and on a schedule! I'd never made 28 drawers in one go before, and I'm not particularly anxious to do it again.
Next phase is a week or two of sorting a 40 year accumulation of hardware and small parts into plastic bins from the Uline and thinking about how to use the wall and floor space that will open up when I get rid of the shelves that have been holding said hardware.
Oh-- one drawer has a cherry front because I came up short and was darned if I was going to make another trip to Boulter and buy another full sheet of the prefinished maple ply for one little drawer front!
354585 354586 354587 354588