So I said that I hoped to get all the carcasses together by the end of the weekend, and I came within one of getting getting to my goal. I didn’t get the pan drawer glued up, but I’m thinking maria is going to want me to resize that one, so I’m gonna hold off putting that one together for the moment. Everything went pretty smoothly. Only had one cabinet that gave me some real trouble, and of course it was the big one. It was a base unit at nearly 90″ long -Quite a beast for one person to assemble on their own. I won’t go into the details of my battle with it, but my tripod that I had set out to use for taking pictures, got crunched pretty good by a falling piece of plywood. Used $30 worth of screws and three bottles of glue today, but progress has been made. I’ll finish up with a few pics and then head to the sink to scrub the glue off my hands.
Needed to cut 45 degree angles for the corner units. My jig is a little crude, but it worked.
You can’t see it in the following picture, but my right arm is now twice as big as my left.
Drilling counter sink holes to hold the cabinets together while the glue dries. These won't show when installed
Here I’m routing the front edges of the cabinet pieces. The face frames are going to get attached with biscuits, and instead of using the little biscuit joiner to do all the routing for each individual biscuit -I’m gonna do the entire front edge of the cabinet. Should save some time later.
Everyone should have a 5/32" slot cutter!
Below are the corner units. I couldn’t stand far enough away to get a good picture of them, so you’ll have to use your imagination a little. These buggers were a little complicated to get the measurements right -good thing I’m married to a mathematician!
Check out these corner units (stacked).
The rest of the pics are just cabinets stacked all over. Most of them are on end, but I won’t be able to store em that way one the face frames are on.
Got cabinets inside of cabinets.
Getting a little crowded in the garage.
Very Crowded
Next will start the face frames. The cherry is on the floor down on the bottom left.
Tags: kitchen cabinet project
