This past week I began the kitchen cabinet pull out shelf project. These shelves will be installed in all but one of the lower kitchen cabinets. The only reason the one won't get the pull outs is that the door does not open fully due to the new dishwasher being a bit bigger than the old dishwasher. I will be installing a total of 12 pull outs.
The first problem I've encountered is that the cabinets were site built. The entire unit was built as one piece. This means there are no side wall to attach the drawer slides too except on one end of the cabinet.
The solution to this problem was to construct a mounting strip for the drawer slides to mount to. I measured the side next to the end wall and it needed 1-1/4" to bring it flush with the edge of the face frame. On the opposite side, the middle face frame was 2" wide. For the 1-1/4" thick piece I used a piece of 3/4 x 4" pine and added 3 pieces of 1/2" mdf as spaces. On the 2" thick piece I laminated two 3/4" x 4" with 3 ea 1/2" mdf blocks in between them. This gave me the 2" I need.
To fasten them to the cabinet shelves used my Kreg Pocket hole jig to drill 6 pocket holes on each face of the 2" thick pcs and 6 holes on the accessible side of the 1-1/4" piece. We will be staining the piece prior to installation so I can add a few dabs of glue to the bottom of the mounting strips when I install them. Between the glue and the pocket hole screws they should be secure.
Tomorrow is Labor Day and I plan taking the before pictures and the pictures of the mounting strips. They will be posted to the gallery tomorrow evening.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Monday, August 18, 2008
Dispatch #26 Shop Update
Not a whole lot going on this past week. I continued the shop cleanup project. Did manage to get the air hose retractable reel mounted to the ceiling. I've had the reel since fall of 2007, but just never gotten round2it to install. It sure makes managing the air hose a whole lot easier.
Had a good "find" on ebay recently, picked up a Stanley 60-1/2 low angle block plane at a real nice price. Have to sharpen the blade a bit more, but it is gonna be a handy item. I'll get pictures of it posted soon in the Hand tool section.
On another note, I ordered the slides for the kitchen cabinet slideout draawer project. They are due in today via UPS. I got them from Grizzly.com for $9.95 ea which is about half of what the local HD BORG wanted for them. They are the same type that I used on the assembly table project and are a good value for the buck.
I'll be leaving Thursday morning heading for Atlanta to attend the The International Woodworking Machinery and Furniture Supply Fair at the Georgia Congress Trade Center. It is one of the largest woodworking events in the country.
Norm Abrams will be there signing autographs and I plan to take my first New Yankee Workshop book for him to autograph.
That's all for now, heading to Southaven, MS for my son's wedding today. More on that later.
Had a good "find" on ebay recently, picked up a Stanley 60-1/2 low angle block plane at a real nice price. Have to sharpen the blade a bit more, but it is gonna be a handy item. I'll get pictures of it posted soon in the Hand tool section.
On another note, I ordered the slides for the kitchen cabinet slideout draawer project. They are due in today via UPS. I got them from Grizzly.com for $9.95 ea which is about half of what the local HD BORG wanted for them. They are the same type that I used on the assembly table project and are a good value for the buck.
I'll be leaving Thursday morning heading for Atlanta to attend the The International Woodworking Machinery and Furniture Supply Fair at the Georgia Congress Trade Center. It is one of the largest woodworking events in the country.
Norm Abrams will be there signing autographs and I plan to take my first New Yankee Workshop book for him to autograph.
That's all for now, heading to Southaven, MS for my son's wedding today. More on that later.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Dispatch #25 Trip to the Hardwood Center
Today we made a trek over to Scottsboro to the Hardwood Center. All I can say is WOW!! They had species of wood I've never even heard of before. There were some Africa Mahogany that was a good 22" wide and had the most beautiful texture and delightful to the touch.
Our mission today was to find some 1/2" thick stock for construction of the pull out shelves in the lower kitchen cabinets. After walking through the Hardwood Center's warehouse and oohing & hahing over all of the wood, we settled on some basswood. It is appox 9/16" thick by 4" wide. It came in random lengths and we managed to find about 100 LF that will be usable. They had a great price I thought on the basswood at .83 per LF. In fact all of their hardwood prices seemed very reasonable.
We also checked out their hardwood plywood and saw some great domestically produced hardwood ply. Will sure keep that and all of the wood in mind for future projects. I would highly recommend anyone within driving distance of Scottsboro, AL to make a trip over there if you need quality hardwoods for any project. They also produce hardwood flooring, molding (both stock & custom order). If you are restoring an antique home they can even take a sample of you existing molding and make a cutter knife to produce new molding to match. Visit their website at Hardwood Center
We got rain most of the day here in Florence, I was suppose to go over and watch UNA's football team practice this afternoon, but due to the rain we postponed till tomorrow evening. That works out even better since they will be scrimmaging then. So I made good use of my time and done a little cleanup in the shop. I removed all the items from one section of my pegboard in preparation of removing it. I plan on replacing it with five 16" x 32" cabinets that I already have on hand. These were originally storage shelves for thick computer printouts at Sequoyah Nuclear Plant. I purchased them several years ago for $5.00 at a TVA sealed bid sale. They are made of Walnut Veneered dimensional lumber with a plywood back on them. I'm going to cut doors to fit and then install the doors with euro hinges. I'm debating on whether to paint the cabinets white or leave them walnut and then stain the doors to match.
I plan on hanging the cabinets on the wall using a french cleat at the top and a strip at the bottom edge. A drywall screw will be driven in to the bottom strip to prevent the cabinet from accidentally being knocked loose. Pictures of this project will be posted shortly in the photo gallery.
As always your comments are welcome.
Our mission today was to find some 1/2" thick stock for construction of the pull out shelves in the lower kitchen cabinets. After walking through the Hardwood Center's warehouse and oohing & hahing over all of the wood, we settled on some basswood. It is appox 9/16" thick by 4" wide. It came in random lengths and we managed to find about 100 LF that will be usable. They had a great price I thought on the basswood at .83 per LF. In fact all of their hardwood prices seemed very reasonable.
We also checked out their hardwood plywood and saw some great domestically produced hardwood ply. Will sure keep that and all of the wood in mind for future projects. I would highly recommend anyone within driving distance of Scottsboro, AL to make a trip over there if you need quality hardwoods for any project. They also produce hardwood flooring, molding (both stock & custom order). If you are restoring an antique home they can even take a sample of you existing molding and make a cutter knife to produce new molding to match. Visit their website at Hardwood Center
We got rain most of the day here in Florence, I was suppose to go over and watch UNA's football team practice this afternoon, but due to the rain we postponed till tomorrow evening. That works out even better since they will be scrimmaging then. So I made good use of my time and done a little cleanup in the shop. I removed all the items from one section of my pegboard in preparation of removing it. I plan on replacing it with five 16" x 32" cabinets that I already have on hand. These were originally storage shelves for thick computer printouts at Sequoyah Nuclear Plant. I purchased them several years ago for $5.00 at a TVA sealed bid sale. They are made of Walnut Veneered dimensional lumber with a plywood back on them. I'm going to cut doors to fit and then install the doors with euro hinges. I'm debating on whether to paint the cabinets white or leave them walnut and then stain the doors to match.
I plan on hanging the cabinets on the wall using a french cleat at the top and a strip at the bottom edge. A drywall screw will be driven in to the bottom strip to prevent the cabinet from accidentally being knocked loose. Pictures of this project will be posted shortly in the photo gallery.
As always your comments are welcome.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Dispatch #24 Happenings this week
Not much going on this week after the completion of the assembly table. I worked on cleaning up the shop and putting stuff away. On Friday and Saturday I constructed a couple of clamp racks to hang my Cabinet clamps and F style clamps from. Based them on plans from one of my woodworking books. It rack will hold 12 clamps, I mounted them right inside the garage door in what has been wasted wall space. The longer clamps went on the top rack and the shorter ones on the bottom rack. I still need more clamp storage though. When I redo the pegboard wall I plan to install a couple of more clamp racks on that wall in the corner next to where I installed the first two.
I begin taking measurements for my next project which is the pull out drawers for the kitchen cabinets. I will be installing 13 drawers total. I plan on ordering the 100lb full extension slides from Grizzly. Those are the ones I used on the assembly table and they worked very well.
We are going Tuesday over to the Hardwood Center in Scottsboro, AL and select the wood to construct the drawers from. Still don't know if we're going to use dimensional lumber or plywood. More on that later.
That's it for now.
I begin taking measurements for my next project which is the pull out drawers for the kitchen cabinets. I will be installing 13 drawers total. I plan on ordering the 100lb full extension slides from Grizzly. Those are the ones I used on the assembly table and they worked very well.
We are going Tuesday over to the Hardwood Center in Scottsboro, AL and select the wood to construct the drawers from. Still don't know if we're going to use dimensional lumber or plywood. More on that later.
That's it for now.
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Dispatch #23 Assembly Table - Update
Work continued on the table since my last post. I got all of the finger joints cut and the drawers assembled. I had one snafu when I got one of the deep drawer sides reversed and cut the dado for the drawer bottom on the wrong side. I had to re-make that one. The installation of the drawers slides was not near as difficult as I expected. Using the tips I gleaned from The Wood Whisperer's podcast they went in fairly easy. I did find out why he installed his drawer slides prior to putting the top on. It would have been a whole lot easier to have installed them with access from the top. Especially the top drawer slide, it was tight getting it in to say the least. I wouldn't have installed the top at the point that I did except there wasn't enough room to work with the top on the sawhorses and trying to assembly the cabinet at the same time.
I also cut the two cabinet doors and installed them with the Euro hinges. I previously had purchased a double template jig from Rockler with drill guides. This jig worked really well once I dialed it in on some scrap plywood. I cut the adjustable shelves and installed them. The drawer handles and knobs that I had selected were also installed.
Tonight I started on the final assembly work prior to staining. I cut the walnut plugs from a piece of rough sawed walnut that is about 20 years old. It has been in my basement for the last 10 years. I cut two of the four oak boards for trimming the edges of the top. Tomorrow's project will be to cut the other two boards to length and then rip all four to final width. The countersinks for the plugs and pilot holes for the screws will also be drilled on the drill press.
Recently using a piece of the scrap plywood used on the cabinet I tested all of the stains I had to see how they looked on the Birch plywood. I also tested the recipe mix that was in Fine Woodworking using the Pratt & Lambert gloss poly. The P&L mix was nice but with Tongue Oil it was just too red on the birch. I finally decided on the Minwax Honey Maple. It is a light colored stain with just a hint of maple color and it's the look I was going for.
Pictures will be posted in the Photo Gallery on my website Dave's Saw Dust Pile very soon.
As always, your questins or comments are welcome.
I also cut the two cabinet doors and installed them with the Euro hinges. I previously had purchased a double template jig from Rockler with drill guides. This jig worked really well once I dialed it in on some scrap plywood. I cut the adjustable shelves and installed them. The drawer handles and knobs that I had selected were also installed.
Tonight I started on the final assembly work prior to staining. I cut the walnut plugs from a piece of rough sawed walnut that is about 20 years old. It has been in my basement for the last 10 years. I cut two of the four oak boards for trimming the edges of the top. Tomorrow's project will be to cut the other two boards to length and then rip all four to final width. The countersinks for the plugs and pilot holes for the screws will also be drilled on the drill press.
Recently using a piece of the scrap plywood used on the cabinet I tested all of the stains I had to see how they looked on the Birch plywood. I also tested the recipe mix that was in Fine Woodworking using the Pratt & Lambert gloss poly. The P&L mix was nice but with Tongue Oil it was just too red on the birch. I finally decided on the Minwax Honey Maple. It is a light colored stain with just a hint of maple color and it's the look I was going for.
Pictures will be posted in the Photo Gallery on my website Dave's Saw Dust Pile very soon.
As always, your questins or comments are welcome.
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