Picked up a job, refacing cabinets, with new doors, drawers and drawer fronts, also need to build one 3 drawer cabinet. The customer wants them painted, so I went with Poplar and plywood. The doors are being made as a frame and panel assembly, Shaker Style.
I took a little time yesterday and generated my cut list. That was a big plus to save some time. There is 21 cabinet doors, 11 drawers with faces, plus the 3 drawer base. Decent size kitchen.
Picked up lumber yesterday so I could get started today. The day started by ripping the styles and rails to width from 1×6 stock. Then by grouping them together on edge ran them through the planner to remove saw marks and dial in the 2” width.
With my cut list, I cut all of the rails and styles to length. So far not much in drops.
Next was to cut a grove for the door panels. I set up the dado stack 1/4” and cut a test piece. Well that didn’t work well, to sloppy. So changed the blade back. Reset the fence to plow a grove in the center, made a few adjustments to sneak up on the grove width, running my test piece through twice by flipping the piece around. Grove is centered, on to cutting 84 pieces.
Up next was to cut the shoulder on each end of the rails. Miter gauge with a stop block, made quick time of that step.
Put the fence back in place and grabbed the tenon jig, and set the fence to cut the out side cheek. Again quick process, and a few little scrap pieces.
Need to fine tune the tenons to fit the groves, but enough for today. Overall not a bad day, for 6 hours of work.
Thanks for looking and reading, and as aways, comments are welcome.