Making kitchen cabinet carcasses is basically an exercise in making a bunch of boxes that fit inside and beside other boxes.  Thus, it is not a terribly difficult process.  But it requires one to think a few steps ahead to make sure all of the parts are going to fit together into a whole.

After getting the corner cabinet done and the under stove cabinet cut last week, I started with the sink cabinet this week.  Sink cabinets can be a pain because there are so many plumbing and electrical connections in them.  I generally just leave a good sized area without a back rather than try to fiddle with cutting each hole in the exact spot.  That makes the whole job much easier, but it does require quite a bit of hand routing.

And if the hand routing is not bad enough, glue-up is a pain because the cabinet is pretty flimsy until I put the face frame on it.  (Sink cabinets cannot have a frame on the top because we need the space to set the sink.)

But once the glue is cured, it fits like a glove.

The light you see on the left side is due to the wall having about a half inch bow under the water pipes from the tapers.  That can be fixed easy enough with about 5 minutes of quality time with my belt sander.

Then it was time to start cutting the parts for the rest of the base cabinets.  Since the gas pipe that I described in last week’s post required me to adjust how I was building the cabinets on that wall, I decided to change how I build the cabinets on the other wall so the face frames will match.

But the first order of business was to make a hole drilling jig for the base cabinets with a shelf.

Yes, the bottom hole is a touch off, but that will not even be seen in the finished cabinet.

After machining the parts, I was able to get the big cabinets glued-up.

My biggest concern was that I did not want to glue-up the 4 drawer cabinets until I had gotten the drawer glides in place and the drawer glides were still “in transit”.  They finally arrived Thursday and I was able to get them installed and do the final glue-up on the base cabinet carcasses.

I finished up glueing in the final few pieces and got the cabinets set in place (but not permanently affixed to the wall).

The wires you see hanging in the foreground are for a center island that I have yet to build.

Th reason for the early post this week is because we have family coming down to see us.  So we will be getting a much needed break from working on work and working on the house.