Office Built-in Cabinets Part V
It appears when my phone ran out of space I deleted a lot of the cabinet pictures so some imagination is required. I finished sanding all of the lower doors. I filled in any larger holes or gaps with Durham's Rock Hard, sanded it smooth, and then sent it off to the paint shop.
Of course the paint shop is just our dining room. My wife volunteered to paint as her job was slowing up. She did a coat of primer and then I brought them back to my shop to sand and fill in any small holes with 3M glazing putty. Then back up to be primed and painted. Since my wife had time to paint, I hoped right onto the upper cabinet doors and she painted them as well.
Now my basement is filled up with cabinets, face frames, and 14 painted drawer/door fronts. I have been working on milling the lumber for the drawer boxes. It takes a lot of time to go from 4/4 rough wood down to 5/8" boards. Add in more time to glue up boards for the wider drawers. Last Thursday I went down to try and get the bottom drawers to final thickness but my planer was acting up. It's been randomly slowing down on wider boards, resulting in them having to be pushed/pulled through. Not a very safe or fun activity.
I could try cleaning the rollers again but that didn't last very long the last time I did it. The fix is new roller but they cost over $100. Option 3 is what I chose.
Mostly I went this route as it would be here this past Sunday in time for me to have a week off of work.
And then the shipment was delayed until Tuesday. I borrowed my dad's planer to keep moving Sunday/Monday. Monday morning I realized his planer blades aren't aligned properly and were planning the boards on an angle. Fortunately, I realized this before anything was too thin.
It was then I walked out of the shop and noticed the floor was wet. Long story short, the water heater pressure relief valve went off. Apparently they can go bad as they get older. After 27 years ours has had enough. In case you're bad at math, it was manufactured around the time the Chicago Bulls won their final championship.
Back to our scheduled programing, with the new planer in hand, I was able to get some drawers made. I used the Rockler dovetail jig for these because my dad has one and it's free to borrow.
I'm happy the dovetails are done on all of the drawers. The jig works well, but it's a lot of trial and error to set up. I bought some poplar and milled it up so I wasn't messing up the actual pieces. Initial tweaking of the setup was almost 2 hours. Once that was done changing the jig to the different box sizes was very quick.
After the first box was made I cut the plywood bottom, made grooves in the box and installed it. Had to make sure the measurements were correct before I finished the other 6.
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