boss wants new cabinets

[Mark Stewart]

Well it comes to us all that the lol wants some new cabinets in the kitchen. Buying them is way out o the question so now I'm looking for some reading material on the how 2 for beginners. No Im not crazy(this is debatable) Ill start down stairs then work my way up from there.

thanks Mark

 

[Travis Porter]

The Complete Kitchen Cabinetmaker: Shop Drawings and Professional Methods for Designing and Constructing Every Kind of Kitchen and Built-In Cabinet by Robert W. Lang

Building Traditional Kitchen Cabinets: Completely Revised and Updated by Jim Tolpin

 

[Ken Massingale]

I like Danny Proulx's books.

http://www.amazon.com/Build-Kitchen...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250102516&sr=1-1

 

[Joe Scharle]

Kreg published a kitchen DVD. Haven't see it, but heard it was good.

 

[goodmund]

This is the book that helped me build my first kitchen last year.

Building Kitchen Cabinets by Udo Schmidt

It's very straight forward with lots of tips and techniques.

http://www.amazon.com/Building-Kitc...=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250111605&sr=8-2

Good luck and keep us posted!

 

[Bigdog72]

Sommerfeld Tools has a great DVD for building cabinets and Norm spent a whole season on kitchen cabinets.

 

[DaveO]

I like Danny Proulx's books.

http://www.amazon.com/Build-Kitchen...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1250102516&sr=1-1

+1 It's too bad he is no longer with us. His articles in Cabinetmaker were the highlight of the mag.
Dave

 

[Ken Massingale]

+1 It's too bad he is no longer with us. His articles in Cabinetmaker were the highlight of the mag.
Dave

Yep, Danny left us way too soon. He made a big contribution.

 

[Warren]

I've used the books in the first two posts to build two sets of kitchen cabinets. However, Proulx's books were the most helpful. The project is fairly straightforward. The hard part is having the standard diminsions and after that, it's just cut and put together. If you use melamine boards, be sure to use Roo Glue as it holds best. Also, buy the edge banding in 250' rolls and use a common pressing iron. There are a number of good edge band trimmers and they are worth the costs. Be sure to finish after trimming with a fine file to relieve the edges.

Go to Woodworker's Hardware in Minnesota for all hardware, hinges, slides. edge banding, Roo Glue etc.
Good Luck!:thumbs_up

 

[21productionz]

Are you going to be making frameless or framed cabinets?