This was finished today; I had wanted to try a cabinet with the grain running continuously across everything. I started with a 3/4″ sheet of good maple, then cut from the back (with good side up) with a just-sharpened .100″ blade in my trusty Unisaw. I moved the blade up and down and/or slid the workpiece to cut out the two doors and three drawer fronts. I cut to my layout line corners on the front, over-cutting on the back side.
I epoxied up the overcut slots in the back and corners, sanded and trimmed, then used PSA veneer tape on the edges of the fronts and inside the opening edges – this brought my clearance slots down to about 1/16″ all around. Normal sanding & finishing followed.
Since I had ordered the Corian top with the kick-out for the bowl, I dispensed with the toe kick – the cabinet bottom is 2″ off the floor.
Just for fun, I made the top drawer box from quilted maple, cypress, and poplar, the middle one from Jatoba salvaged from HD pegboard pallets from Brazil (my secret!), and the bottom one from antique redwood. I used FE slides because I needed the accuracy to close in the small gap with no bumping. I suppose I could have used Blum’s Tandem underneath, but in my experience they have a litte too much side play
The pulls were chosen to match the sink kick-out.
The clients think it’s great!
Forrest
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Über nice work.
Scott.
Always remember those first immortal words that Adam said to Eve, “You’d better stand back, I don’t know how big this thing’s going to get.”