Kitchen Cabinets

Jeff Scott · Oct 4, 2012

Hello All,

I've been working on building a complete set of kitchen cabinets for the past few months mainly on weekends. I'm almost done with the construction of the cabinets and ready for the finishing process. I started a picture blog of the build to document it for posterity since this is my first kitchen. If you would like to check it out and follow along go here

Thanks for looking!

Jeff

rdesigns · Oct 4, 2012

Really nice work--excellent workmanship with top-quality materials.
Your are saving yourself a bundle! (Maybe enough to partly pay for all the tools and clamps) ;D

Thanks for showing; it's a project you can be truly proud of.

Mauri Motti · Oct 4, 2012

Hi Jeff,

Thanks a bunch for posting. Very nicely done. We have a (i think) very similar looking kitchen cabinets which are made by a local carpenter but though without the dovetailed drawers. [thumbs up]

Nigel · Oct 5, 2012

Looks good but I have to ask - why the rails full width?

JLB builders LLC · Oct 5, 2012

Have you tried a Leigh dovetail jig ? After using one I shied away from the Porter Cable and others, from the sounds of it glad I did.

Jeff Scott · Oct 5, 2012

Thanks for the kind words guys! It is a very gratifying project but a little overwhelming sometimes.

Nigel: The reason for the full width rails is just a design preference. Something I've grown up with I guess.

JLB: I've never tried the Leigh jig. It looks like a good jig though. I did have a 24" Omnijig that did a great job but I sold it a couple years ago and I kick myself now for doing that!

jmbfestool · Oct 5, 2012

nice!

umm your draw runners locks under neath your draws they blum correct? you have some white bits on the orange bit I have not seen them. The ones I use are like that but with no white turny thing. I assume they have extra adjustment?!?

Like to know cus i will go for them ones if they are better.

Just had a few blum things arrive to day for a job! which I might post here on Fog soon. Not posted any my recent projects lately.

JMB

junk731 · Oct 5, 2012

JMB

I think you will find that's a made for the USA Blum product. One of my distributors, Richelieu, sells on both sides of the border and the USA Blum products are only available there even though they show them in the on line catalog. In Canada, Blum sells the Euro based products.

John

jmbfestool · Oct 6, 2012

junk said:
JMB

I think you will find that's a made for the USA Blum product. One of my distributors, Richelieu, sells on both sides of the border and the USA Blum products are only available there even though they show them in the on line catalog. In Canada, Blum sells the Euro based products.

John

gutted! Am i right in assuming they have extra adjustment?! Because I am edging towards using hafel draw systems because they have sideways adjustment and the Blum ones dont. Which is annoying! Looking at the USA draw locks they must have sideways adjustment?

JMB

Deansocial · Oct 6, 2012

What extra adjustment you after brett? The movemto adjusts in out sideways and tilt and up n down

waho6o9 · Oct 6, 2012

Clean work Jeff and for your first kitchen it's mighty impressive!
Have fun on the install and thanks for posting.
[smile]

jmbfestool · Oct 6, 2012

Deansocial said:
What extra adjustment you after brett? The movemto adjusts in out sideways and tilt and up n down

Well the blum on has up and down which it aint brilliant at and tilt which again aint brilliant but no sideways or in or out but not bothered bout the in and out so much but the sideways movement I am.

JMB

Scott B. · Oct 6, 2012

Great looking project Jeff, wish I was your finisher!

jmbfestool · Oct 6, 2012

They are LOADS better than the Blum tandem runners I get!

Wonder how much more they cost

JMB

junk731 · Oct 6, 2012

JMB, sorry for the previous bad information, I haven't had a chance to check these out yet or there availability. They are fairly new and cost $24.24 CDN for a pair of 22" with locks plus $3.86 for the separate Depth adjuster. This is roughly $4.50 more then I pay for Tandems. It will be interesting to see the price you can get them for.

John

KITCHENDUDE RSA · Oct 22, 2012

I manufacture kitchen units for a living. I wish I could spend the time on each project like you have, but it is not commercially viable.
I love the dove-tailed drawers. Overall excellent job. Well done....

Jeff Scott · Oct 23, 2012

Thanks Kitchendude! I wish I had more time to work on this project so I could get it moving along quicker. I'm ready to start the finishing process now, we'll see how that goes.

Jeff

tiralie · Oct 23, 2012

Welcome to the FOG KITCHENDUDE!

KITCHENDUDE RSA said:
I manufacture kitchen units for a living. I wish I could spend the time on each project like you have, but it is not commercially viable.

I am always interested in ways of working, so I wonder how you would approach this project differently.
Do you mean that your clients won't pay for your time for a project like this, or your would streamline the process through material selection, automation and installation?
Yes I know you can order boxes, drawers and doors all made to specification and delivered for the same price that Jeff payed for the wood. Is that what you mean or just the time spent?

Tim

pghmyn · Oct 23, 2012

These are the best cabinets I have ever seen. Well done!

bwiele · Oct 23, 2012

Jeff - let me be [not the first, but one more] to say thank you for all of the documenting of your process that you've done. I started going through the whole blog and realized how much there is to what you've done! I'm pretty well tooled up and I'm on the verge of starting to build some shop cabinets (home-made sysports, etc. to get some experience and then move on to some cabinetry for around my home. I fully admit that I'm going to be plagiarizing from your work, and I'm even more excited not to get started. I'll try to remember to post up some of my work here. But hey, great work man. - Brian

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