dtrider

Thanks to all who helped me get my table saw setup. Here is a picture of the first project I did with it. About 99% was done on the table saw. There are some flaws and I still have some finishing work to do but I needed the space back so I put them up. Thanks!

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firehawkmph

Looks good dtrider. Try to resist installing something before it is done. They tend to never get finished. Ps, where's the knobs?
Mike Hawkins

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dtrider You did a great job on your first project. You can do anything you put your mind to, but I have to agree with Mike. Resist the temptation of installing until you are finished. I give you 3 thumbs up.

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dtrider

Ha yep, you are SO both right.

mjdtexan

Ah ha, that needs to be my first project as well. I really need cabinets in my garage. You did a good job. I cant wait for my tools to get here. Tomorrow is the day supposedly.

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nblumert

The cabinets look great, but a quick question. You said you did 99% on the table saw. How did you do the raised panel doors?

LGC KX5 TC

That would be the 1% i would guess lol

dtrider

Actually I did do those on the table saw! For the rails i made tenons by making shoulder cuts with my miter gauge. I attached a board to the gauge to basically turn it into a crosscut sled. After the shoulder cuts I nibbled away from the edge in small increments until I reached the shoulder. There was no cheek cut. My first one was a little rough but as long as i was careful during the "nibble" phase the tenons turned out smooth. So both sides of both rails got one of those for each door.

Then I made grooves in all of the rails and stiles. I made two passes on each board to end up with an approx 1/4" groove.

For the panels I glued up some boards with pipe clamps and when they were ready I cut them to size on the saw.

The next part was probably the most interesting. I lowered the saw blade all the way down and put a sacrificial fence PERPENDICULAR to the blade and ON TOP of it using clamps attached to the wings. Then I turned the saw on and raised the blade a tiny bit cutting into the fence. Next I ran the panel across the blade using the fence to keep it straight along all four sides. Then I raised the blade another tiny bit and made four more passes and repeated that until the panel fit in the 1/4" in the rails and stiles. After that I hand sanded the frame where the saw had been nibbling.

Then I glued it all up and done! I have a 10" blade on the saw so that determined the radius of the raised panel. I suppose you could use a bigger or smaller blade to get a different radius. I found that applying A LOT of paste wax to the sacrificial fence made the job easier. Without that the panels were sticking to the sacrificial fence.

It really only took a couple of hours when I did them all together. I don't have a lot of clamps so I had to glue the doors up one at a time. That was a pain.

In fairness I did one practice door that was a god aweful out of square mess while I was figuring out the method. After that I did all the pieces at once so I only had four saw setups.

I hope that all makes sense! I can try to take pictures of the perpendicular saw trick setup if you want. Cheers!

nblumert

Dtrider, thanks for the reply. I thought you might have made the doors on the table saw. I figured the doors were more than 1% of the project. Thanks for the step by step instructions.

autoBrad

Hey,

I need to make some cabinets for my laundry room(for the wife). Did you have plans? I've never made cabinets before, anyone have any links to any plans online?? I am going to check some of my books but was just curious.

Thanks

Brad

dtrider

Hi brad, I did not have plans but I looked through a few books for the techniques. This was my first project ever besides sanding and staining some old relics I found in the classifieds and what not. I want to do kitchen cabinets so I thought the garage would be a good practice run. Boy was it! I detailed the process for the raised panel doors above. For the boxes all you have are the face frames and the shell. To get the dimensions I just went to the big box store with my tape measure and copied those. Everything is 12" deep including the thickness of the plywood and the height was like 30-something. I think you would determine that by the height of your ceiling.

I would make the face frames first, the boxes to fit the face frames and the doors last. You don't need plans I think you could easily make your own cut list.

creative novice

i recently face-lifted my kitchen and spent alot of time looking at the big boys pre-made kitchen cab web sites.....in the process i also went to the website of the pre-made kitchen cabinet maker of my cabinets....thinking i might need to order another door to match the rest of my kitchen....anyway, if u go 2 a kitchen cabinet maker site they often have in adobe format their specs and i know of a couple of sites that have 3-d video of how they construct their well built cabinets, to show the consumer the differences in their good, better, best lines....it could give you a better understanding of the basic construction too.... i am reluctant to state the manufacturers on this site..but if u send me a private request i can e u the sites i am thinking of. i know that if you get the construction down good, your end product will be far better than most anything you could afford to buy! ....creative novice

red

Nice work. Our workshops/garages are the best rooms in the house. Red

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