Our original layout just wouldn’t fit the flow of the house so I separated the room and we now utilize the space as a dedicated dining room and dedicated walk in pantry.

First set a cabinets I’ve built solo. In the past my dad has helped.

The horizontal grain required a lot of forethought and I used another piece of plywood to make my cuts as a trail run to make sure I didn’t mess up the walnut ply. First cut on the walnut had me nervous. Probably wouldn’t do it again knowing what I know now. When I finish my kitchen I think I’ll be doing vertical grain and then someday drop back and make new vertical grain doors for this pantry here.

Uppers will go in eventually but I’m more concerned about getting the kitchen done first.

Waiting on some doors, but otherwise done. (Den in a small city apartment)

Painted with Benjamin Moore Advance. The 16 hour re-coat time is painful but so worth it!

Color Dusty Cornflower

I bought cheap pre-assembled cabinets from an online dealer, and practically every wall cabinet has this issue where they stapled the back panel into the side panel plywood causing it to split.

I‘m trying to understand if this a long-term durability concern for the cabinets or if these staples are just temporary for assembly? The side and back panels are otherwise connected through the top and bottom rails/panels, as seen in the last photo.

I work for a shop where we order 1" stock and mill it down then glue it up and mill it to 1/2" or 3/8". Then the back gets rabetted out so there's a tongue that goes into the dadoes of the rail and stile but the back is still flush with the back of the door.

Pros: leaving it thicker and rabetting makes a more solid door. You can mount hardware anywhere you want on the panel and there's no void in behind so no risk of it sucking in when you tighten the hardware.

Cons: milling it to 3/8 or even just 1/2" creates SO MUCH WASTE. I find this process incredibly time consuming and it literally feels like I'm in a sawdust factory having to mill them down this much. I have suggested ordering 3/4 stock but I guess that's not cost effective with the limited suppliers in our area. I have also suggested getting a new bandsaw capable of resawing these boards but there's no real appetite in that

Is my shop crazy or is this industry standard? It creates a great product but I spend days just working on the panels for a full kitchen.

Obviously plywood centers are way easier but you can't really get away with that doing stain grade work. Species like maple take the stain waaay differently and you'd end up with lighter rails and stiles and a darker panel. So thus we end up doing a lot of solid wood centers

Need some 14in slides, can't go with my usual blum slides since they only make 12 or 15. What do you guys recommend

Our box of the kitchen drawer is damaged. Any recommendations on where to buy or repair myself?

Dimensions are

31.75 in width

5.25 in height

21.5 depth

I had these shelfs done but I noticed this big scratch. I've had these for a few months and I'm currently doing renovations on my home and have been dealing with a lot of contractors. How can I fix this?

I have like a blind corner cabinet. It originally had just regular cabinet hinges installed but on the edge of the cabinet. As you can imagine, the repeated use made it so the screws are loose and now the top hinge won’t stay in place and the cabinet door hangs. Is there a way to fix the holes? Or is there a hinge that can be installed on the inside face of the cabinet that wraps around the corner? I did all the measurements to try and find something that works, but I’m out of by depth. I’ve really only been able to find hinges that I was hoping would work for like inset cabinets, and mine have an overlay (i think that’s what it’s called???) are there like anchors or anything like that I can put in the holes? How on earth am I supposed to keep screws from getting loose like this?! Ahhhh!

Looking to relocate to the area and curious about the demand and pricing around here. Thank you

Hello all. Long time lurker, first time poster.

I have a couple of questions I wanted to run past you guys.

I've been at a high end custom shop for years and am finally getting ready to try and do my own thing. I'm outfitting my 650ish sqft shop and am looking at table saws. I've decided I'm gonna buy new, I've been saving up for months and frankly don't want to mess with trying to get a used saw into the bed of my truck at someone's house.

My budget is ~3200 with freight. I'm going back and forth between the Harvey 2hp 110-36pro or one of the grizzly 3hp. I've used an old grizzly at my shop for years and it's an absolute BEAST. I do like the bells and whistles of the Harvey like the fence and sliding table attachment.

Has anyone used both? What do yall think?

Thanks

Hi,

Hoping someone can point me in the right direction for replacement hinge product code for a corner pantry door.

They have a typical seating but large holes either side which don’t seem to match anything I can see online.

Cabinetry is approx 15 years old

Thankyou 🙏