Cabinet Construction
In Fine Woodworking magazine's Winter 2014 Tool & Shops annual issue, Robert O'Brien shared his various shop work stations, including a chop saw station. As I studied it, I came to really like it, and decided to build one identical to it. It incorporates a shelf for the miter saw, flanked by a set of two base cabinets. There is a lot of work involved in this build and after a good start; I decided to post this as a blog series. If done timely, the first post would have shown cabinet construction. Since I am already past that, I will provide a brief description of how it played out.
I made four base cabinets from Âľ" birch plywood. The boxes have two sides with a rabbet at the top and bottom to receive those elements and the back is set into a dado milled on all four pieces. Glue and screws hold everything together. The face frames are solid maple milled to about 2 inches wide and joined via glue and pocket screws. The face frames are attached to the carcasses (carcases if you prefer) with glue and biscuits. Each cabinet has an opening for a drawer and a door beneath it. Two cabinets were screwed to each other making the two sets.
Next, I built a base for each set of cabinets. I used pressure treated 2Ă—6 and faced it with poplar. I leveled the cabinets with shims and screwed them into wall studs. The cabinets and the base received two coats of oil-based polyurethane. Here are a few photos. Next, the shelf and counter tops.
In Fine Woodworking magazine's Winter 2014 Tool & Shops annual issue, Robert O'Brien shared his various shop work stations, including a chop saw station. As I studied it, I came to really like it, and decided to build one identical to it. It incorporates a shelf for the miter saw, flanked by a set of two base cabinets. There is a lot of work involved in this build and after a good start; I decided to post this as a blog series. If done timely, the first post would have shown cabinet construction. Since I am already past that, I will provide a brief description of how it played out.
I made four base cabinets from Âľ" birch plywood. The boxes have two sides with a rabbet at the top and bottom to receive those elements and the back is set into a dado milled on all four pieces. Glue and screws hold everything together. The face frames are solid maple milled to about 2 inches wide and joined via glue and pocket screws. The face frames are attached to the carcasses (carcases if you prefer) with glue and biscuits. Each cabinet has an opening for a drawer and a door beneath it. Two cabinets were screwed to each other making the two sets.
Next, I built a base for each set of cabinets. I used pressure treated 2Ă—6 and faced it with poplar. I leveled the cabinets with shims and screwed them into wall studs. The cabinets and the base received two coats of oil-based polyurethane. Here are a few photos. Next, the shelf and counter tops.