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Building Multiple Base Cabinets

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Cheaper to Build or Buy Kitchen Cabinets?!

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What happens here

The presenter continues building various base cabinets, including a 15-inch drawer base and a 25-inch cabinet. He sets up an efficient workflow where raw plywood is cut at one station, detailed cuts (like dadoes and toe kicks) are performed at another, pocket holes are drilled, and then assembly occurs at a dedicated workbench. This systematic approach allows for quick production of multiple cabinet carcasses. He then installs the first completed 15-inch base cabinet in the kitchen space, test-fitting it next to the proposed range location. He also marks out the space for a future 25-inch cabinet and the 30-inch sink cabinet. He details the challenge with the sink plumbing being exposed and how he plans to address it by creating a single large 48-inch long sink cabinet to cover the plumbing, sacrificing some cabinet space but ensuring a clean look.

Goal: The process of building base cabinet carcasses is repeated for all required units, with an efficient workflow that separates cutting, pocket hole drilling, and assembly stations.

Tools and materials

  • Brad Nailer
  • Cordless Drill
  • Jigsaw
  • Kreg Pocket Hole Jig
  • Plywood
  • Pocket Screws
  • Table Saw
  • Wood Glue

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about it [Music] put some Scoops in your mouth scario they don't teach you that in school huh hey cabinet I have some friends for you let's go so I'm going to need to do a blank box well I don't really have to do a blank box I could just kind of extend the other cabinet so there's just an empty space here and countertops can just kind of sit over it it'll work so up next 25 in a didn't I say 25 on the last one no I had to make a 15 this is a 15 in the next one's 25 21 25's coming up jigs right here they are a lifesaver when it comes to getting everything nice and flush cuz if you just hold your pocket screw in just like that or pocket hole just like that you're going to like the way you build I guarantee [Music] it when you're doing drawers I used to always just kind of eyeball and be like well if it's off by an eighth uh or a quarter I could always just make a overlapped drawer face and it'll conceal it all but that's young man's game so the best way to do it is take your overall length that you're working with subtract all the dividing pieces that are going to be here for the drawer right so subtract all of this and then divide this length by how many sections there'll be so in our situation five so I created a little jig my little spacer so when this comes in here there's no guesswork you just literally line them all up and you'll have perfect spacing all [Music] around you know what I was actually dreading building all new cabinets just how long it would take and how much to go through the process but surprisingly enough it's been kind of kind of therapeutic uh and it really only works with a setup and I know my setup is unique there's not a lot of people who have an an entire big shop space to themselves but the way I kind of have it set up is my materials here I cut it all rough here here I do all my little details like My toe kicks right and then I walk and this is the big one I come over here and I use my pocket hole form in here so I could do a bunch of them really quickly so I have to clamp anything down and then this is like my assembly table so by having a system like this it allows for me to actually bust them out really quickly so on average I think each carcass with the face frame is coming out to be about 20 to 25 minutes which I think is pretty damn fast [Music] how cool does this look they look incredible I I don't want to to my own horn but they came out as good as I could ever make them I'm really proud of how this looks really really…

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