Pete Brown
10-16-2007, 11:50 PM
Can I just say that one's first "real" woodworking project should probably not be a kitchen full of cabinets :)
This project has taken *forever* due to a toddler and the hours I keep at work. Basically I get about half a day each, averaging around 3 weekends a month for 1 1/2 days total work each month in a shop - a shop that can only hold one partially-completed cabinet at a time (including finishing)
Of course, the most I got done was when I took two weeks vacation in September. :)
Anyway, I did my first ever frame and panel a week or so back. This is the door to the pull-out waste basket.
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The flash makes the tiger pop more than it does when you're in the kitchen. The open top will have a 5" drawer. It's one of the only ones where I put a plywood divider in there as I wanted the trash compartment fairly well sealed.
I took an unorthodox approach to the doors. My wife didn't like any of the shaker-style cope and stick profiles. In the end, the thing she liked was having a 5/8" thick panel set 1/8" back from the front of the frame, with no profile to anything other than to break the edges a bit.
I routed stopped grooves using a regular tongue and groove cutter then rabbeted the backs of the panels to fit. The rails and stiles are joined using 8x50 dominos.
Here are some other photos.
The microwave cabinet (doors not in place yet on either cabinet) with the leg in place. Againk the flash makes things look a lot busier than they do in person. I really need to get enough light in there to take a non-flash photo.
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And here is the double-deck cutlery drawer that CCF built for me. I'm going to flip the top drawer around I think as I would prefer the horizontal section to be in the back
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Here's one of the cabinets showing how the face frames are on edge rather than the usual way. I really like the look of this, but it doesn't offer much rigidity to the cabinet, especially if the plywood has a tendency to wander like this stuff does.
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None of the base cabinets are permanently installed yet. They all still need the green toekick boards as well as the legs and the curved toekick rails in place.
Finish on everything is 3 coats of zinsser seal coat followed up by 3-4 or more coats of General Finishes high performance polyurethane water-based finish.
I'm happy my wife has been as patient as she has been. Between the floors, walls, windows, stairs, doors and kitchen, I've had parts of the house torn up since 2005. I know she'll be happy once we can get the base done enough to get the countertop people in to measure.
I still really enjoy the project, but I'm looking forward to working on something that doesn't involve 4x8 sheets of plywood and a full flitch of maple :)
Pete
This project has taken *forever* due to a toddler and the hours I keep at work. Basically I get about half a day each, averaging around 3 weekends a month for 1 1/2 days total work each month in a shop - a shop that can only hold one partially-completed cabinet at a time (including finishing)
Of course, the most I got done was when I took two weeks vacation in September. :)
Anyway, I did my first ever frame and panel a week or so back. This is the door to the pull-out waste basket.
73693
The flash makes the tiger pop more than it does when you're in the kitchen. The open top will have a 5" drawer. It's one of the only ones where I put a plywood divider in there as I wanted the trash compartment fairly well sealed.
I took an unorthodox approach to the doors. My wife didn't like any of the shaker-style cope and stick profiles. In the end, the thing she liked was having a 5/8" thick panel set 1/8" back from the front of the frame, with no profile to anything other than to break the edges a bit.
I routed stopped grooves using a regular tongue and groove cutter then rabbeted the backs of the panels to fit. The rails and stiles are joined using 8x50 dominos.
Here are some other photos.
The microwave cabinet (doors not in place yet on either cabinet) with the leg in place. Againk the flash makes things look a lot busier than they do in person. I really need to get enough light in there to take a non-flash photo.
73697
And here is the double-deck cutlery drawer that CCF built for me. I'm going to flip the top drawer around I think as I would prefer the horizontal section to be in the back
73695 73694
Here's one of the cabinets showing how the face frames are on edge rather than the usual way. I really like the look of this, but it doesn't offer much rigidity to the cabinet, especially if the plywood has a tendency to wander like this stuff does.
73696
None of the base cabinets are permanently installed yet. They all still need the green toekick boards as well as the legs and the curved toekick rails in place.
Finish on everything is 3 coats of zinsser seal coat followed up by 3-4 or more coats of General Finishes high performance polyurethane water-based finish.
I'm happy my wife has been as patient as she has been. Between the floors, walls, windows, stairs, doors and kitchen, I've had parts of the house torn up since 2005. I know she'll be happy once we can get the base done enough to get the countertop people in to measure.
I still really enjoy the project, but I'm looking forward to working on something that doesn't involve 4x8 sheets of plywood and a full flitch of maple :)
Pete