My wife and I have been toying with the idea of selling the house and moving locally to take advantage of the local market (hot). The idea came to us in May and since then we've been working to wrap up some projects here and there so we're ready. Silly things happen though as I get into projects...more projects. As I was finishing up out master closet cabinet build it occurred to me that the other bedrooms could use a little organization too. I took a few rough measurements and then started in on my sons closet -
Stupid design. 30-inch door to access a 76-inch closet but it's only 28-inches deep which makes it really difficult to access the whole thing. I can solve that with a little multi-tool action.
I drew up the cabinet design for my sons closet and then measured my daughters. As it turns out, her closet is 3-inches wider than my sons so I can use the same design and build both sets at the same time.
Concept is to build the kids dressers into the closets so we can remove the free standing ones from the room and get the floor space back. I tend to attempt to optimize time by reducing setups so I start with table saw operations. I cut all of the sheet goods right away into components and then switch out to the dado blade and cut the 1/4-inch groove for the back panels.
Leaves me with smaller stacks of components ready for some LR32 action.
I have some bigger assembly tables but, for whatever reason, I managed to do all of the fab on my two MFT Horses.
Here's a trick I just stumbled across. When using the holey rail on sheets that are longer than the rail I can't clamp the rail to the end so i clamp the parallel guides to the sheet.
I think I spent the entire Saturday drilling holes. The nice part about doing all of one operation at a time is it allows me to put all of those necessary tools before moving on to the next op - dominos.
Since most of the cabinets are the same depth, I was able to setup a story stick and quickly bang through the sheets following the drawing. Still took hours given the sheer number of components to machine.
For whatever reason, I get the most satisfaction using the domino. One reason I really like the MFT Horses is that most boards can be clamped in such a way that I can end-mortise both sides in one setup. Prevents the occasional "fixturing the part up side down" mistake.
Finally on to assembly. I build the main structures bottom up.
Until I had complete assemblies.
Normally I'd use a full back panel but, based on the dimensions of this cabinet, I got better use of the sheets by making them 2-piece.
Failed to get a final pic of the back of this cabinet after adding the back braces (upper and lower) - 1/2 ply that are 5-inches wide and get pocket screws to lock the sides to the top/bottom.
Stupid design. 30-inch door to access a 76-inch closet but it's only 28-inches deep which makes it really difficult to access the whole thing. I can solve that with a little multi-tool action.
I drew up the cabinet design for my sons closet and then measured my daughters. As it turns out, her closet is 3-inches wider than my sons so I can use the same design and build both sets at the same time.
Concept is to build the kids dressers into the closets so we can remove the free standing ones from the room and get the floor space back. I tend to attempt to optimize time by reducing setups so I start with table saw operations. I cut all of the sheet goods right away into components and then switch out to the dado blade and cut the 1/4-inch groove for the back panels.
Leaves me with smaller stacks of components ready for some LR32 action.
I have some bigger assembly tables but, for whatever reason, I managed to do all of the fab on my two MFT Horses.
Here's a trick I just stumbled across. When using the holey rail on sheets that are longer than the rail I can't clamp the rail to the end so i clamp the parallel guides to the sheet.
I think I spent the entire Saturday drilling holes. The nice part about doing all of one operation at a time is it allows me to put all of those necessary tools before moving on to the next op - dominos.
Since most of the cabinets are the same depth, I was able to setup a story stick and quickly bang through the sheets following the drawing. Still took hours given the sheer number of components to machine.
For whatever reason, I get the most satisfaction using the domino. One reason I really like the MFT Horses is that most boards can be clamped in such a way that I can end-mortise both sides in one setup. Prevents the occasional "fixturing the part up side down" mistake.
Finally on to assembly. I build the main structures bottom up.
Until I had complete assemblies.
Normally I'd use a full back panel but, based on the dimensions of this cabinet, I got better use of the sheets by making them 2-piece.
Failed to get a final pic of the back of this cabinet after adding the back braces (upper and lower) - 1/2 ply that are 5-inches wide and get pocket screws to lock the sides to the top/bottom.
. Looks like a really attractive improvement.
