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- From: billp@deepspace.East.Sun.COM (Bill Pittore - SunSelect)
- Newsgroups: rec.woodworking
- Subject: Re: Hey! Lets have a survey....
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 22:27:45 GMT
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- Reply-To: billp@east.sun.com (Bill Pittore - SunSelect)
- Organization: SunSelect - A Sun Microsystems Business, Chelmsford MA
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- I'm currently in the process of building new kitchen cabinets. Since
- I'm somewhat time constrained (ain't we all) I farmed out some of the work.
- My wife has seen how I can drag out a project and was firm with me about
- getting this one done in a reasonable amount of time. (I tried to explain that
- I didn't mind if we didn't have a kitchen for 6 months or so but she wouldn't
- buy it!)
-
- As it turned out I believe that it was the right decision. Over the christmas
- break (2 weeks) I built 15 feet of base cabinets and 9 feet of wall cabinets
- (just the cases). The overall design of the cabinets is 'European' in that the
- doors and drawers are full overlay with no face frames. I teamed up with
- a local custom cabinet maker to offload some of the work. For the cases
- I had him rip all the birch plywood and put cherry veneer on the appropriate
- edges. This saved me tons of time and effort since wielding 4x8 sheets of
- plywood down my basement is painful. I then took the 8' x various width
- pieces and crosscut them, dado'd, glued etc. The door design is a
- cherry raised panel design. I built a few prototype doors and then
- got some help from the custom shop. He's ripping the stiles and rails
- and panel pieces and gluing up the panels. I'll then take them and
- raise the panels and glue up and finish the doors then mount them
- (there are about 30 doors).
-
- I was all ready to build my drawers out of 1/2" maple stock when this custom
- guy saved me more time (at the expense of money of course). There are
- several places where you can order drawers in any size, wood type, finish etc.
- You can get the drawers in pieces and glue up and finish yourself or
- fully finished. Fully finished maple drawers (half blind dovetails front and
- back) were about $40 each.
-
- It would have been nice to have been able to do the whole project but even
- I succumbed to the reality of the situation. I did get to build several
- prototypes from scratch which we used to finalize the overall design.
-
- On the plus side, I got my wood, plywood and hardware from this guy cheaper
- than I could have gotten it myself since he passed on some of his discount
- to me.
-
- The kitchen is part of a major renovation/addition so I'll have plenty of
- other things to fill in what little time is available (like 1200 sq ft of
- flooring to install; anyone used one of those Bostitch flooring staplers
- on hardwood flooring??? I'm curious if it works ).
-
-
- I'll let you all know how it all turns out...
-
-
- bill pittore
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- Bill Pittore - SunSelect, a Sun Microsystems Inc. Business
- Chelmsford, MA 01824
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- bill.pittore@sun.com (508) 442-0310
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