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I had an epiphany in my shop today. I'm an idiot!
I milled up a bunch of poplar for drawer slides and had already cut all my sides to finished length. I just finished cutting the fronts and backs to finished width for one cabinet--one skinny drawer on top and two tall drawers on the bottom that will convert the current base to pullouts from the existing shelves.
The drawers are going together using pocket screws. A plant on front will coverthe holes in the front. I had just finished assembling 3 drawers for another cabinet and started drilling out the holes for these drawers. Man, this is tedious, I thought (after all these years, I still use my Kreg mini jig), I can't wait until I'm done. I'm on my fourth piece and then I realize I'm drilling into the sides and not the fronts/backs! They are different dimensions with the sides being longer than the fronts so I can't just cut them off or swap them. Luckily this cabinet is in a corner so it won't be too obvious when I plug the holes but I still need to make the plugs.
So as I was fuming over that, I also realized I forgot that for three of these cabinets, I'm reusing the existing top drawer and hardware and just putting on a new face. I inadvertently milled all the wood for 3 new drawers, though. I guess this is better than coming up short, but that wood (and effort) could have gone towards something else.
Thanks for letting me vent.
I milled up a bunch of poplar for drawer slides and had already cut all my sides to finished length. I just finished cutting the fronts and backs to finished width for one cabinet--one skinny drawer on top and two tall drawers on the bottom that will convert the current base to pullouts from the existing shelves.
The drawers are going together using pocket screws. A plant on front will coverthe holes in the front. I had just finished assembling 3 drawers for another cabinet and started drilling out the holes for these drawers. Man, this is tedious, I thought (after all these years, I still use my Kreg mini jig), I can't wait until I'm done. I'm on my fourth piece and then I realize I'm drilling into the sides and not the fronts/backs! They are different dimensions with the sides being longer than the fronts so I can't just cut them off or swap them. Luckily this cabinet is in a corner so it won't be too obvious when I plug the holes but I still need to make the plugs.
So as I was fuming over that, I also realized I forgot that for three of these cabinets, I'm reusing the existing top drawer and hardware and just putting on a new face. I inadvertently milled all the wood for 3 new drawers, though. I guess this is better than coming up short, but that wood (and effort) could have gone towards something else.
Thanks for letting me vent.
Soooo .... would now be a good time to mention that on the machinist tool box I'm building (and have temporarily set aside because of the following ...) I very carefully measured AND CUT a grove on the FACE of one of the raised panels rather than the BACK ....
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Loring in Katy, TX USA
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