Doors, drawers and more

The cabinet boxes are finished and I moved on to the doors and drawer fronts today. I sized all the panels, made lots of sanding dust and had enough time at assemble one door.

Poof : the driveway is full.

We assembled all but two cabinets today. I like this stage of the build because you actually see a dramatic change from parts to something that actually looks functional. It's similar to the Sheetrock stage of building a house. We will finish the boxes tomorrow morning and move on to the Shaker doors, drawer fronts and drawer boxes. Then comes the sanding,not my favorite step of cabinetry.

Big Pieces to Little Pieces

Terry shook the flu bug and helped me rip up 12 sheets of plywood this morning. All the cabinet cases are stacked in the rack and ready for the assembly table tomorrow. I ordered a new door panel set and upgraded the shipping so I should be ready to build doors by Wednesday.

We should be ready to start demo by the end of next week.

Door Day

I finish all of the face frames yesterday so I moved on to the doors today. All was milling fine until my router bit decided to explode. Luckily it was the bottom cutter and the flying carbide was trapped below the stile. It reinforces the need to wear eye protection. The bit is still under warranty but I've been down this road before, which means ill just order a replacement on Monday and then jump through the hoops with customer service and hopefully I'll have a backup in the future.

The bright side of the story is I won't feel guilty watching NASCAR tomorrow. How come it takes a woman to stir my interest in race cars? I don't even have a Beer in the refer but I know an easy fix. I hope they get the track fixed up in time.

The schedule for Monday includes chopping up thirteen sheets of plywood.

Michele's New Kitchen

It's finally time to get started. I almost forgot I promised to document the whole project from beginning to end. I picked up the materials on Monday but I had a few loose ends to wrap up so I didn't get started until yesterday. I planed all 320 bf of lumber yesterday and ripped all the face frame stock. This morning I cut to length and started assembling the face frames. I started with the tall oven/microwave cabinet as seen in one of the photos. More to follow.