bendingunit23

Quote of the moment: "It turned out my favorite shade of blue is purple."



Since I bought new kitchen cabinets for my condo from Ikea I've wondered about building some for myself, maybe the next place, or the one after... Partly as I'm a bit cheap, partly because the lower priced cabinets at ikea or home depot are different colors on the inside than they are on the outside, that just doesn't look right to me. Another part is the old mountain climber thing, because its there. I ended up buying this book...



which is just a collection of articles from fine woodworking magazine, to help with some ideas on building things. And it's a good book for that. For one it pointed out using a biscuit jointer for building cases for things, this cuts out having to cut out dados and or rabits to join bit of wood, and also helps with alignment. The best one for the job happens to be on sale next week end.




but I'm wandering off topic a bit.


I'm sure I could build kitchen cabinets for my self, but some of the numbers involved make it a logistical nightmare. For a sample kitchen something like the one in my condo:
14 sheets of plywood (they are four feet by eight feet)
200 feet of 1inch thick wood
64 hinges
32 door pulls
12 different pieces/types of wood to cut and prep
that in piles would take up 32 square feet of space
280 pieces total
932 square feet of wood to stain
1532 holes to drill for pins to hold up shelves
1632 edges to chamfer

big numbers, some day