My first REAL cabinetmaking project. #1: The Question, The Plan, and The First Problem.
My first real cabinetmaking project started as a simple “Can you make a new frame for the medicine cabinet mirror, dear?”, from my wife. “No problem!”, I replied. The time I have spent here at LJ has convinced me that I not only CAN do it, but that I SHOULD do it! In fact, I SHOULD make a whole new medicine cabinet – a bigger, better medicine cabinet! [Insert Tim Taylor ‘grunt’ here.] I took some measurements, did a little cypherin’, spent a few hours in TurboCAD and voila, I had ‘The Plan’. Cool! Now I need lumber. After a strangely ‘tangential’ series of mouse clicks, I found myself at www.tcwoods.com. This is a local sawmill that uses a lot of ‘urban lumber’ – they are also a...
