| Blog series by 47phord | updated 268 days ago | 2 parts | 1680 reads | 7 comments total |
Part 1: The Beginning...
Let me start this off by saying that I am not only a novice woodworker, but I am also a BROKE novice woodworker so…I scored this crappy old particle board cabinet for free at a garage sale. I have been wanting a router table for a while now, but haven’t been able to part with the green and this cabinet is the perfect size. As you can see, it is kinda sad: Flimsy would be the best way to describe it. I started off by making a bottom out of some old 3/4” CDX plywood ...
Part 2: The worst is over...
Okay, so I’ll start this post off by apologizing for not documenting my progress better but I get so wrapped up in working that I forget to stop and take pictures. But I digress. First off, I added a couple dividers in the cabinet made from my trusty CDX stash: Then on the left side I added some oak rails for drawers: Here is a shot of lower drawer I built. Nothing fancy, just scrap 3/4 oak ply for the sides-butt joints with glue and brads to hold it together-and 1/4 plywood bo...
