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Put the bench on top of the two cabinets while it dried.
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This is the right cabinet with one of the drawers. It worked out pretty well.
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Glued the two pieces that are used for the work bench together, then clamped and ran a double row of screws down the center.
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Cut the 1/2" plywood out for the drawers. 6 in the right cabinet, 2 in the left.
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Used a jig to make sure the drawers were square.
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Two of the drawer corners. Glued the opposite corners, drilled and then screwed them together. Drilled, glued, and screwed the bottoms as well.
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All done with assembling the drawers. Next is to sand them and then apply polyurithane.
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The sanded ones are on the left and the completed one is on the right.
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Applying the polyurithane to the drawers.
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The two end cabinets built and sitting on the bases. That's the shelf in the left one.
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Turned the cabinets upside down in order to paint them. Puttied them first then sanded.
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From the front side.
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The other cabinet with the shelf dado.
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Dado for the shelf. 1/8" by 3/4". Unfortunately not deep enough so I had to use a chisel to make it deeper until the shelf fit.
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Table saw, router table, sawhorses, 1 sheet of MDF, and workbench. Ready to start.
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Line drawn for the tops, straight edge c-clamped down, circular saw ready to cut.
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More pieces of the cabinet. Another side. Note the three sides that have been dado'd. Cabinet base boards are on the workbench above the cabinet.
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Dado'd the sides of the cabinets. Lots of sawdust and bits of MDF and wood.
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Covered in sawdust. When I took my shirt off, sawdust just fluffed out.
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Assembling the base. Only use one screw to hold it in place. MDF is too soft and splits if you're too close to the edge.
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I put the cabinets together and then the bench on top, then laid the front and side pieces of hardwood along with the oak backsplash.
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The white bits is just sawdust from the garage. The shelves in the center cabinets are their doors.
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Puttied, sanded, and painted the two center cabinets.
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Now I'm just waiting on the hardware for the drawers and doors. I also have to paint the drawer faces and doors.
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The new top to the workbench has arrived. Laid it out to let it relax a little before gluing it down.
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Moved the laminate. I used a router to trim the top to size and make the edge flat.
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A box of hardware arrived. Handles, hinges, and drawer slides. I have to buy the screws and washers though.
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From a different angle. Nice and square corners.
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Ok, back to the drawers. I drilled and mounted the bottom hardware to the drawers.
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Next installed the first runners.
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Oh, and I glued the laminate down to the top. I used rubber cement on both sides. Looks pretty good.
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The first drawer installed. Doesn't quite move smoothly so I had to make a few adjustments.
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It does slide in though. Just a little bumpy.
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Now all the drawer slides are installed and you can see the drawers have their hardware.
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Second picture. I was trying to wipe off the sawdust and realized that they're floaters. Sawdust suspended in the air.
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Picture of the drawers installed. A bit dark because of the light. Let me fix that.
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There, that's better. One problem is that the sides of the cabinet are about a quarter inch too wide.
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So I bought some washers so the drawers would slide in and out smoothly.
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Attaching the faces to the drawers. I had to work from the bottom to make sure there was sufficient room between the faces.
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And all installed. I also decided not to screw the handles just to the faces as planned but went and bought longer ones so they'd go all the way through.
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And for completeness, the other two drawers are done too.
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Side view of the main drawers.
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I spent about an hour taking the faces back off, painting the back, putting them back on, then painting the rest of the face.
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The bottom one is still a little wet so I left it sticking out a little.
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I had a couple of ideas for the handles and finally went with the red paint. Kind of sets it off a little.
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Then I attached the handles to the drawers. Looks pretty good.
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I waited a couple of days to make sure the laminate was secure before trying to route it. Then I finally did it and it came out very well.
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Trimming the oak edging and getting ready to glue it down.
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You can never have too many clamps. I clamped the edge down but found the far ends were a little off so I broke out the tie downs.
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And now from the side. I cut the corners into 45* ends so they'd fit, then trimmed the ends so they fit with the backsplash. And the backsplash is installed too.
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Back to the cabinets. I had to make a couple of trims to get the doors to fit right because of the hinges.
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And here's the new table top. It just needs to have the edges sanded and then painted.
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Got the cabinet doors installed and the doors open and close properly.
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I spent a couple of hours cleaning out the space to the wall and then moving the cabinets and top where they belong.
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I painted the doors and after they were dry, installed them to the cabinets.
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Looks pretty good, eh? I also had to fix the top right drawer. I used 1 too many washers. After making the adjustment, it opens and closes smoothly.
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Look from the far corner. The garage was packed away for the night so I had to maneuver around a little.
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This morning (Saturday), I sanded the edges and backsplash. Then I used polyurethane to protect them. Finally I screwed the cabinets to the tabletop.
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Side angle view (a little bit of a cut off there on the end).
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There, that's better. And it's done. Looks pretty good if you ask me.
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