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| Wow! Each board comes individually wrapped. |
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| Somewhere in that stack of wood is our future kitchen cabinets |
I will begin building the
kitchen cabinets next week? Well, that’s the plan anyway. Our carpenter
delivered the wood (19mm, pine) I’ll be using for the cabinet carcasses. I
originally planned to use 15mm plywood for the carcasses, but our carpenter
suggested using pine. When Erika heard the price difference between the
pine and the plywood, she wasn’t happy. "It’s twice as expensive! We’re not
going to live longer than 20 years,” Erika commented. “Why do we need our
cabinets to be so good?” Our carpenter quickly defended the high cost by saying, "15mm plywood won’t last very long. If you want to have quality cabinets that
will last, use pine." “Great answer!” I thought to myself. Honestly, pine will provide a nicer finish than the plywood after it’s sealed. Besides a
quality set of custom kitchen cabinets would cost a small fortune in Japan. Shhh…the
real reason is that I prefer real wood over plywood.
A whole bunch of woodworking
tools will be required to build these cabinets. Fortunately, all of the tools
are in the shop and ready to go. Two of the jigs I recently purchased will help
with installing the hinges and the shelf pins. Another jig (Pocket Hole Jig) will
be used for assembling the cabinets and face frames. I have a few surprise
features I will discuss as the project progresses. Let’s get started! George
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| Pocket Hole Jig |
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| This should speed up assembly time and create very strong joints |
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