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This is my first kitchen cabinet project. It took me one year and ten months to complete this project working a couple of hours on weeknights and Saturdays and Sunday afternoons. To give you some idea of the scale of this kitchen…the island is 4 feet wide and 11 feet long. The homeowners wanted all drawers in the base cabinets and raised panel and glass doors on the uppers. I made over 100 drawers for the kitchen, laundry, master bath and two other baths and over 75 raised panels. The appliance garage features a tambour door.
The wood is Guatemalan mahogany or Santos mahogany. All of the doors and side panels on major components have raised panels and the drawer fronts were flat slabs. The finish was applied by the homeowner and is three coats of wipe-on poly.
-- Makin' Sawdust!!!































22 comments so far
Dusty56
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posted 524 days ago
W O W !!!! THIS IS AN AWESOME KITCHEN TO SAY THE LEAST : ) BEAUTIFUL CABINETS
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Scott
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posted 524 days ago
I am truly impressed with this project. You have the right to be very proud of the job.
-- Scott, Kentucky ----- "Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry" Mark Twain
Scott Bryan
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posted 524 days ago
This is a beautiful kitchen. I am sure that the novelty and excitement over the construction of the raised panels and drawers wore off rather quickly with this many to do. But you did an excellent job on the cabinets,
Well done!!!!
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lightweightladyleftie
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posted 524 days ago
I really get enthused looking at nice kitchen cabinets—especially since we have been working on our kitchen for nearly three years now. That was a massive amount of cabinets and they are absolutely stunning! Is that a remodel in a stately old home, or is it a new home built in a Victorian style? I’m sure the owners were delighted with the final results.
-- "But godliness with contentment is great gain." 1 Timothy 6:6
Woodhacker
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Beautiful job! The homeowners must be thrilled with the work you did on this.
Thanks for showing it.
-- Martin, Kansas
ND2ELK
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posted 524 days ago
Exquisite detail and design. You did a beautiful job on this kitchen. Thanks for posting.
God Bless
tom
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GaryK
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posted 524 days ago
Great looking job! That Santos Mahogany is some hard wood! Usually used for flooring.
Did you wear out many tools on it?
-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.
Terry
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posted 524 days ago
A wonderful kitchen! Your attention to detail shows.
Sawdustonmyshoulder
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Thanks for the comments. The homeowners were pleased and very pleased that it is DONE. They were living in the house while I was completing the task. They were basically “homeless” when their house sold, and we all bucked up and got the house able to be “camped out” in. Cabinet boxes with no drawers or door or even shelves. Plywood for cabinet tops. No kitchen sink, no oven, no cook top. It was hard to drive 9 miles to measure something or install a couple of drawers and drive 9 miles back. The Santos mahogany is what I call the “devil’s own wood”. It is hard but with that hard of a wood, it doesn’t take really sharp planer blades to cut it. I don’t know. I had trouble with the wild grain, stresses in the lumber when I ripped it, and having to do most of my routing as climb cuts. Yes, it is used for flooring and the floors in this house are of the same species. I hope next time is see this stuff it is in flooring form but I was very pleased with the outcome and I learned A LOT!!! I learned how to make raised panel doors in mass form; learned how to keep lumber stable while the processes were being completed; and got to know my Kreg jigs in an intimate way. (We’re in love, you know :-) ) I do enjoy working with the Kreg. I used it through out the process.
-- Makin' Sawdust!!!
CharlieM1958
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posted 524 days ago
Wow, what an impressive project! These cabinets are gorgeous.
-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"
matt garcia
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posted 523 days ago
WOW!! I can’t even come up with words to describe this!! This has got to be the finest kitchen I’ve ever seen!! I’m dumbfounded!! Hey, are those croissants? Yummy!!!
-- Matt, Houston Texas
Rj
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posted 523 days ago
I’d be so proud . Lots of nice complementing features -great eye for detail =I feel warm just looking at it.
-- Rj's Woodworks,San Jose & Weed Ca,
jcees
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posted 522 days ago
Very nice work in a great looking place. Sweet!
always,
J.C.
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jockmike2
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posted 521 days ago
Wonderful job. Looks beautiful.
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Sawdustonmyshoulder
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posted 521 days ago
Yes, Matt Garcia, those are croissants. Big, fluffy croissants. The homeowner took these photos right before his mother’s birthday party. I think some of the wipe-on poly was still damp.
-- Makin' Sawdust!!!
Mark Shymanski
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posted 520 days ago
Wow, this is your first kitchen…. I can only imagine what your work will look like once you get some practice lol! Great work.
-- ...it's rennovation time!!!
bayouman
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posted 518 days ago
What a fabulous kitchen. I won’t be showing this one to the wife. I can see why the homeowners are so happy.
Keith Cruickshank
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posted 506 days ago
Great looking kitchen! Very nice job.
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suliman
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posted 506 days ago
NICE JOP.
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jeanmarc
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posted 485 days ago
C is large art very beautiful work congratulations
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Michael Brailsford
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posted 479 days ago
until you do a kitchen it is hard to appreciate how much work it is. Very nice work
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Beginningwoodworker
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Nice looking kitchen!
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