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Posted - February 26 2007 : 4:03p

My daughter asked me to make her a kitchen island to provide a little more storage space for her kitchen. The space was occupied with this:

This is the island with a couple of coats of primer after I finished it. They wanted to paint it to match the existing cabinets. The cabinet is 24" x 48".

And here it is with 3 coats of white semi-gloss installed in the kitchen with a 36" x 50" counter top.

And all of this just to add some appeal so they can sell the house!

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Posted - February 26 2007 : 4:39p

Not bad! Wish I had the skills.

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Posted - February 26 2007 : 4:48p

^^most definately. i'm jealous

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Posted - February 26 2007 : 5:45p

Great job Mark!

I love building cabinetry.

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Posted - February 26 2007 : 5:53p

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Great job Mark!

I love building cabinetry.

Yeah, it is a lot of fun. It's just tough working on large pieces in a small space. It sure would be nice to have a bigger a area to work in. My shop is only about 380 square feet.

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Posted - February 26 2007 : 6:24p

Very nice. Cabinet work is fun because it's so demanding to be precise. Looks like you know your stuff.

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Posted - February 27 2007 : 8:21a

Good job! I recently did one for my own lil house

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Posted - February 27 2007 : 10:24a

man I wish I could build something like that. Great job, looks really ggod.

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Posted - February 27 2007 : 10:35a

Good Job.
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Posted - February 27 2007 : 10:39a

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Great job Mark!

I love building cabinetry.

Yeah, it is a lot of fun. It's just tough working on large pieces in a small space. It sure would be nice to have a bigger a area to work in. My shop is only about 380 square feet.

Tell me something I don't know.... I'm stuck in a typical 2 car suburban garage, with all my tools on wheels. To get a project going, I need to pull out the cars, pull out the tools, finish the project, and cleanup before I can even think about getting the cars back in the garage. I just finished a LARGE build (planter boxes for my wife), and MY car is still outside until I can get the finishes on... Damn rain and humidity.

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Posted - February 27 2007 : 10:45a

That turned out very nice.

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Posted - February 27 2007 : 12:12p

Classy!

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Posted - February 28 2007 : 12:27p

Great work Mark!

I enjoy a little wood working myself. I just uploaded a ton of pics in my gallery under side jobs.

heres a few
before

during

after wood is mahogany

before

almost after, need finished pics, but everything is now painted, and stained glass is installed in the cabinet doors. The hole for the fireplace is covered, tiled, and a woodstove stands in front

before

after

before

during

after

sorry about all the pics, but its neat to see what other people are doing. Anyone else have pics of their projects?

I apologize if I'm hijacking Mark, did you make the rest of the kitchen cabinets? It looks like you matched the doors perfectly.

Jason

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Posted - February 28 2007 : 3:46p

Don't even worry about hijacking.

Those are some real nice projects, there. Do you specialize in fireplace surrounds? That first one in mahogany is absolutely beautiful!

I like that built in you did for the washer and dryer. That is a pretty good idea for laundry room that isn't tucked away in the basement.

Excellent work!

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Posted - February 28 2007 : 3:51p

Sorry Jason. I was so blown away by those fireplaces that I didn't even finish reading your post.

I did not make any of the other cabinets in my daughters kitchen. I had them send me some pictures and some measurements and then had to rely on memory. They are far enough apart that no one will probably notice the differences.

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Posted - February 28 2007 : 10:27p

Thank you Mark, I appreciate the compliments. I guess I could say I specialize in fireplace surrounds. Everything I do is on the side for mod money. I do it in my spare time, little that it is, on evenings and weekends here or there. All my customers are from word of mouth. I feel its the best advertisement when I dont have to try and sell myself.
So I have discovered that a lot of people are unhappy with their mantles. You do one, they tell a friend....it goes on. And several others just approached me with the mantle in mind without seeing any of the others. I've done so many of them, I never stopped to think how strangeand coincidental it is

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Posted - March 1 2007 : 10:58a

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Great job Mark!

I love building cabinetry.

Yeah, it is a lot of fun. It's just tough working on large pieces in a small space. It sure would be nice to have a bigger a area to work in. My shop is only about 380 square feet.

Tell me something I don't know.... I'm stuck in a typical 2 car suburban garage, with all my tools on wheels. To get a project going, I need to pull out the cars, pull out the tools, finish the project, and cleanup before I can even think about getting the cars back in the garage. I just finished a LARGE build (planter boxes for my wife), and MY car is still outside until I can get the finishes on... Damn rain and humidity.

try doing Without a shop at all....

y'all got it easy

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Posted - March 4 2007 : 8:03p

Anyone else have any projects? I just mounted all the shelves in the pantry cabinet in the kitchen on full extention drawer slides so you can roll them out and see all the food etc. Works great.
Was a nice excuse to buy myself a new Dewalt 13" planer

Now my tax return is gone......

Jason

Edit. Mark is that a Grizzly table saw? How do you like it? I would like to get one of their 5hp left tilt cabinet saws. They seem to get good reviews.

Edited by - offroad250 on March 4 2007 8:10p

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Posted - March 5 2007 : 8:42a

Nice work Mark your an artist.

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Posted - March 5 2007 : 10:53a

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Anyone else have any projects? I just mounted all the shelves in the pantry cabinet in the kitchen on full extention drawer slides so you can roll them out and see all the food etc. Works great.
Was a nice excuse to buy myself a new Dewalt 13" planer Now my tax return is gone......

Jason

Edit. Mark is that a Grizzly table saw? How do you like it? I would like to get one of their 5hp left tilt cabinet saws. They seem to get good reviews.

Yup, it is a Grizzly G1023Z, 3hp. This is a great saw. Didn't like the Shop Fox fence that it came with, so I replaced it with a Delta Unifence. When I bought this saw, they had not yet released the left tilt model. If I ever do get a new saw it will definitely be a left tilt.

As far as power, the 3 hp seems to be plenty for what I have used it for. I have ripped 2" thick Cherry and Oak with no problem. A while back I bought a bunch of Oak 8ft 4x4's. I cut them down to 4 ft. and re-sawed them to various thickness's on the table saw. Had to cut half way through then flip and cut through the other half. The saw never even slowed down. I probably helped that it was a new, thin kerf rip blade.

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Posted - March 5 2007 : 11:10a

Mark, could you list the tools required for such a build? The fiancee and I were considering a bar-type table (tall and small) for our kitchen, since it is very small, but I'm thinking an island might be better. I'm a super novice (does shop class in high school count?) so what kind of tools would I need, start to finish?

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Posted - March 5 2007 : 11:40a

FWIW, I have the same Grizzly saw as Mark.

IMO, the 5HP would probably be overkill, I've never had my 3HP Grizzly saw complain about anything I've fed through it.

I also have that 13" DeWalt planar referenced above, it's a very nice tool.

I need to take some pics and post them up of some of my projects.

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Posted - March 5 2007 : 2:21p

hey, mark...nice work...nice mantles as well...i fabricate a lot of corian myself....pics someday..

why did you not roll the edge on all 4 sides in the island though?..the top that is...

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Posted - March 5 2007 : 3:34p

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Mark, could you list the tools required for such a build? The fiancee and I were considering a bar-type table (tall and small) for our kitchen, since it is very small, but I'm thinking an island might be better. I'm a super novice (does shop class in high school count?) so what kind of tools would I need, start to finish?

I can at least tell which tools I used. There are other ways to build this kind of a cabinet that would call for different tools.

Anyway, here goes.

I used a circular saw and a table saw to size all of the case parts and drawer pieces.

A table mounted router (plus associated router bits) to make the door frames and to form the drawer front and door edges.

A hand held router was used to round off the edges of the face frame and a biscuit joiner was used to attach the face frame to the cabinet.

I used an air compressor and finish nailer to hold panels in place while glue dried.

The drawer fronts were made from glue ups of narrow stock to get the width needed. I used a jointer to square the boards before edge gluing.

Lots and lots and lots of clamps!

I buy rough cut boards and I also try to use 'rescued wood', so I use a 'portable' planer to get the stock to a uniform thickness.

Now, these are the tools that I have accumulated over the years. A lot of the operations I do can be done in other ways and with other tools. If you buy s4s lumber you don't need a planer. If you buy stock that is wide enough, you don't need a jointer. Most of what I do with the table saw can also be done with a circular saw and a router.

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Posted - March 5 2007 : 3:42p

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hey, mark...nice work...nice mantles as well...i fabricate a lot of corian myself....pics someday..

why did you not roll the edge on all 4 sides in the island though?..the top that is...

The top was just a cheap one they ordered from Home Depot.

This cabinet was just to give some additional storage space in their small kitchen. They are selling this house in a few months and thought that having the additional storage space would make it a little more attractive to potential buyers.

The original plan, before they decided to sell the house, was for a much more elaborate cabinet. We were going to put full suspension drawers and adjustable pull out trays behind the bottom doors. They were going to put a 2-3/4" thick butcher block top on it. Maybe we'll do something like that in their new house.

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Posted - March 5 2007 : 3:45p

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FWIW, I have the same Grizzly saw as Mark.

IMO, the 5HP would probably be overkill, I've never had my 3HP Grizzly saw complain about anything I've fed through it.

I also have that 13" DeWalt planar referenced above, it's a very nice tool.

I need to take some pics and post them up of some of my projects.

I agree that the 3hp saw has plenty of power.

And, yes, you should post up some of your projects. I seem to remember seeing a picture of a fireplace surround that you built. I think you used to have it posted on your old home page that was linked to from FTW?

Edited by - Mark05KR on March 5 2007 5:39p

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