progress is slow, but Im updating where Im at with this project.
I have all the cabs built.
All the face frames are on.
All shelves as well as cabs are sprayed just need to be rubbed a drop.
This morning I glued up the final 3 drawers and will sand and start finishing all of them tomorrow.
The one cab in the picture with the 3 drawers, the top one is a drawer, the bottom two are pullouts behind one cabinet door. I have bumpers to put on the drawers so they dont damage the inside of the door.
I used mostly hard maple for the drawers, but had to throw in some quilted/figured maple and a piece of silver maple. My maple supply is just about depleted, I only have a bunch of 2 inch thick by 12 footers, just too much work for me to break down and resaw right now, so I used what little I had left of assorted maples.(and perhaps birch)
All drawers are dovetailed.
these four cabs will make up the pseudo island extending into the kitchen dividing the kitchen and dining room, where we took down the wall.
I purposely did not build the toekick base into the cabinets, so I can build one base, fit the heater, size it all, and place the base exactly where I need it to hide the floor where the wall came out and the different floors meet. I also feel it might be easier for me to level the base first, then just sit the cabinets on top of it.
my time in the shop to work on this is very limited. Besides having to churn out chairs, Im busy ferrying relatives and friends back and forth from the airport, twice this week, twice last week, and alot of other little errands that keep me from the shop. Not to mention the heat and humidity are cutting my hours drastically.
Im beginning to think I wont have this project done until thanksgiving!
the rest of the cabinets are in my den, since I have no room to store them safely in the garage, fearing Ill bump into them or scratch them up, they just need doors now.