Alternative Cabinet Construction - Mostly a Rant
Finally have new 30x40 woodshop space under roof and wired and ready to start constructing cabinets. The local lumberyard, to put it mildly, takes advantage of the fact that it's a 40 minute drive to the nearest box store, and I won't support what I consider unethical if not criminal price gouging. Then, I start looking at the prices for sheet goods at the box stores and realize I'm now officially an old fart because my response to $50 a sheet for just-barely-usable birch plywood is "..that's bullhockey...."
There's always MDF, but it is just sooooooo heavy and dusty to work with. Anyone have good experience with framing cabinets out of common lumber and skinning them with luan? What about drawer construction? That's about the only idea I've come up with - trading lots of construction time for reduced costs...