I am about to start building a bunch of cabinets for my shop business and home. I am in the market for good tools to make this work easier and better quality.
I am working on a shop (14' x 20'), in the basement I finished a few years ago. I have a 15' x 12' room off the shop room, with solid metal shelving & wall mounted steel wood supports. I use the smaller room for storage of wood, parts... In the shop I have a Drill Press, Small 2HP General Table Saw, the smaller INCA band saw, small Hammer workbench, wall hanging board (like peg board but much stronger), a decent assortment of powered and hand tools, clamps, measuring devices, work support.. I had the shop wired for 120/240 with its own breaker box. I have an old Dewalt 12" chop/mitre saw & stand- 14 years old & has seen much better days.
Festools: MFT/3, TS 55 EQ, OF 1400 EQ Router, CT 22 Mobile dust Extractor, a few clamps, hoses, guides, accessories... I also made a cutting table with: 3/4 plywood, solid wood edge frame (to place clamps on), foam board cover, removable water pipe base ( not as easy to move around as I had hoped ;-) ).
I spent the last 10 years working on construction projects for home & business, including building & rebuilding... a building for my business. Now I want to embark on cabinet making and more finished carpentry projects. I am about to invest in one of the Festool Drills and I have been kicking around the idea of buying a Domino and or Kapex. Having been construction oriented for 10 years I have sort of lived & died with the "portable" chop/mitre saw and have been threatening to buy a better sliding saw for several years. I was waiting to get a look at the Kapex before buying anything. I'm just not sure I need that nice a saw for the work I now have planned. I am thinking I will be doing more cutting with the TS 55, table saw & band saw, jig saw.. for the work I have planned.
The cabinets I plan to make out of decent, not great, plywood with solid wood edging/frames. I have been thinking about pocket hole joinery construction but I am wondering if it would be easier/better to join with a Domino? My buddy/coach who actually builds furniture and more finished projects is "old school" and does most of his work on a table saw, SawStop. My buddy thinks the Domino is a gimmick. He thinks I should buy a planner for hard wood board making. I don't see me building much out of solid wood in the near future though, and I can do without all the dust. I would rather buy a more limited quantity of finished solid wood, like hard pine and oak and just use it for edging/frames around plywood. I have done some work with MFD and would rather use plywood, although I am researching XDPE plastic for some dog housing projects.
Maybe some of you have some thoughts on how to construct cabinets like the ones I envision? Maybe I am barking up a few wrong trees?....
I am working on a shop (14' x 20'), in the basement I finished a few years ago. I have a 15' x 12' room off the shop room, with solid metal shelving & wall mounted steel wood supports. I use the smaller room for storage of wood, parts... In the shop I have a Drill Press, Small 2HP General Table Saw, the smaller INCA band saw, small Hammer workbench, wall hanging board (like peg board but much stronger), a decent assortment of powered and hand tools, clamps, measuring devices, work support.. I had the shop wired for 120/240 with its own breaker box. I have an old Dewalt 12" chop/mitre saw & stand- 14 years old & has seen much better days.
Festools: MFT/3, TS 55 EQ, OF 1400 EQ Router, CT 22 Mobile dust Extractor, a few clamps, hoses, guides, accessories... I also made a cutting table with: 3/4 plywood, solid wood edge frame (to place clamps on), foam board cover, removable water pipe base ( not as easy to move around as I had hoped ;-) ).
I spent the last 10 years working on construction projects for home & business, including building & rebuilding... a building for my business. Now I want to embark on cabinet making and more finished carpentry projects. I am about to invest in one of the Festool Drills and I have been kicking around the idea of buying a Domino and or Kapex. Having been construction oriented for 10 years I have sort of lived & died with the "portable" chop/mitre saw and have been threatening to buy a better sliding saw for several years. I was waiting to get a look at the Kapex before buying anything. I'm just not sure I need that nice a saw for the work I now have planned. I am thinking I will be doing more cutting with the TS 55, table saw & band saw, jig saw.. for the work I have planned.
The cabinets I plan to make out of decent, not great, plywood with solid wood edging/frames. I have been thinking about pocket hole joinery construction but I am wondering if it would be easier/better to join with a Domino? My buddy/coach who actually builds furniture and more finished projects is "old school" and does most of his work on a table saw, SawStop. My buddy thinks the Domino is a gimmick. He thinks I should buy a planner for hard wood board making. I don't see me building much out of solid wood in the near future though, and I can do without all the dust. I would rather buy a more limited quantity of finished solid wood, like hard pine and oak and just use it for edging/frames around plywood. I have done some work with MFD and would rather use plywood, although I am researching XDPE plastic for some dog housing projects.
Maybe some of you have some thoughts on how to construct cabinets like the ones I envision? Maybe I am barking up a few wrong trees?....