It seems that life has been getting in the way of our kitchen project even more than normal lately so it’s encouraging to be making some real progress again. Yesterday I installed six more cabinet doors and attached the pulls on those as well as the six doors that were already in place.
Here is the tall microwave cabinet with its four new doors. Yes, I know it looks silly to have the beautiful doors and no front on the drawer. Now that the doors are in place I can cut the drawer front to the exact width.
The other two new doors are on the small cabinet above the fridge. On the right you can see the jig I made to locate the screw holes for the cabinet pulls.
Speaking of jigs, here’s a photo of the way clever jig I’m using to glue up thin narrow slats into the wide panels for the next batch of drawers. The jig is based on one I saw that was designed to glue guitar sound boards together. Pounding in the wedges not only squeezes the panel between the upper & lower sections of the jig (so all of the slats remain in the same plane) but also tightens the rope against the edges of the slats thus pulling the slats tightly together.
I’m not at all sure that I explained the jigs function very well so just take my word for it, it works great – it’s cool.. Honest…
cheers – dj
3 comments:
looking good! how many door/drawer fronts do you have left?
The drawer under the microwave is the only one that still needs a front. The cabinets in the kitchen proper will need nine more doors and I'll also need to an additional two doors for a built-in storage area nearby. Depending on my mood that seems quite a lot or not very many...
I LOVE the way the cabinet doors look like with the handles on. Beautiful :)
My brain can't figure out what's going on in that jig picture...
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