subject: The Basics In Building A Cabinet Start With Good Cabinet Woodworking Plans [print this page] You have thought about changing your kitchen or bathroom cabinets for years. Adding cabinets to a home is not restricted to just the kitchen or bathroom. Beautiful custom made cabinets are seen in bedrooms, dining rooms, home office and living or family rooms. The choices are endless and only limited by your imagination. The following is just the basic steps when putting together your cabinet woodworking plans.
In knowing how to build a cabinet that would suit the individual needs of a person can go a long way. You can also save yourself thousands of dollars especially since a cabinet shop or manufacturer can charge you anywhere from $5,000.00 to $100,000.00 to build cabinets for an average kitchen.
When choosing cabinet woodworking plans there are standards for the basic cabinet sizes. The standard base cabinet size for a kitchen is 34.5 inches in height and 24 inches in depth. A wall cabinet has only one standard which is the depth of 12.5 inches.
Sketching the cabinet plan on a piece of paper with the measurements is the next step in your cabinet woodworking plans. Now it is time to put together your list of materials, followed by purchasing some wood from a lumber shop. Most cabinet boxes use fused melamine because it typically is cost effective and stands up well to moisture and normal wear and tear.
You should use 4' X 8' sheets of plywood or melamine 5/8" or 3/4" thick. There are many choices in edge banding that should match your melamine or cabinet doors. In order for the cabinet to obtain a fine finish, the edges of the cut sides must be covered.
The person can then go to a shop where they have a chop saw, dado saw, table saw and wall saw. For precautionary measures, one must wear safety goggles when sawing and then carefully apply fused melamine sheet onto the wall saw. Since it is easier to cut first, the saw blade should be set to cut the cabinet length after which the person must use the saw to cut two same-size wood pieces for the cabinet. The next would be to set the blade at 24 inches and then cut the other length and make sure that it has two 34 1/2 by 24 inch sheets.
The next step would be to cut the top and bottom piece with a 24 inch depth along the width of their choice. Next would be to band the side with the chosen length. You are only edge banding the exposed edges that will be seen in the finished product. Set up a closed dado and dado both ends of both pieces of the wood, then set up your staple gun. To ensure that the sides are secured tightly on the top and bottom parts, it is highly recommended to use 1 and a half inch staples.
The person should then place the bottom piece in the bottom dado of their cabinet and staple it. This must also be done to both sides of the cabinet before doing the top piece. If you are building a face frame cabinet you can use matching melamine for the face frame, or you can then stain the face of the cabinet to match custom doors.
