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mbcabinetmaker wrote:Dusty the drawer fronts are rail and style construction just like the last lesson we did in Sketchup. I have a clamp table that I built for assembling. They are glued with Tightbond 11 and clamped in the clamp table. I then shoot 23 gauge pins through the tenons to hold them until the glue dries. I have some more to build and will post the procedure.

JPG40504 the clamps are Bessey edge clamps. They clamp in 3 directions for attaching trim to the edge of a board or plywood.

Mark

I was curious about the drawer not the drawer front.

Nevertheless, you've done it again. A piece of furniture that would be comfortable in anyones shop.

Dusty sorry about the misunderstanding. The drawer is 1/2 inch Baltic birch and it is simple but joints with Tightbond glue and 1 1/2 inch brads. I usually go back and add 2 small miller dowels on the front side. I have not done this on these and probably will not. I think the hardware is much more important than the drawer joinery. The cabinets that I am replacing were built the same way with epoxy coated under mount runners and lasted 15 years or so without a failure. The epoxy runners were worn out but the drawers were still as good as new. I prefer using dovetail drawers but could not justify the time and expense for shop cabinets.

mbcabinetmaker wrote:Here are a couple of better pictures of the door/drawer fronts.




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My Wife told me they were to fancy for the shop!
Hey I'm just working with what I have on hand.



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It is coming together but I still have to build 4 54 inch drawers for the center sections.





PS JPG I am using Accuride ball bearing side mount drawer slides for this project. About $8.00 per pair.

Yeah, okay so this is going to be a pretty ridiculous question but here goes: how heavy is all that? I have to move a lot due to my career, so I can't afford to install permanent fixtures in my rented properties. Maybe someday when I settle down I'll be able to move to that style of system, but for now i'm looking for something mobile and relatively light.

If anyone has any plans for a simple workbench/storage area that could be dissasembled/reassembled relatively easily I'd be more than interested.

Otherwise I'm just going to continue using my thrift-store-kitchen-table workbenches. they work well when you need them and when they break you've got more lumber!

Maybe I'll just stick with that for now

tango wrote:Yeah, okay so this is going to be a pretty ridiculous question but here goes: how heavy is all that? I have to move a lot due to my career, so I can't afford to install permanent fixtures in my rented properties. Maybe someday when I settle down I'll be able to move to that style of system, but for now i'm looking for something mobile and relatively light.

If anyone has any plans for a simple workbench/storage area that could be dissasembled/reassembled relatively easily I'd be more than interested.

Otherwise I'm just going to continue using my thrift-store-kitchen-table workbenches. they work well when you need them and when they break you've got more lumber!

Maybe I'll just stick with that for now

This is another one of those "different strokes" things...
It has become obvious over a brief time that mbcabinetmaker is in a fairly stable situation in his shop and has a fairly consistent work type. He also is doing here what he apparently does daily so these nice cabinets are not difficult for him to produce. You have indicated that you have to move from time to time. In my own case at 67 I still don't know what I want to do when (if) I grow up. I'm prone to jump back and forth from one activity to another and I am constantly changing things around. I have very deep roots to my farm but for all hobbies the key word is "PORTABLE".
I am gathering materials right now to build a whole series of storage towers, all on wheels. I intend to always have the ability to "TOTALLY" rearrange the entire shop in about a days time or less. I expect to be able to move the entire shop to another location with a couple of days work.
Not all of the towers will be just storage. A few will be work areas as well. One such work area tower will be a mobile sharpening center for all kinds of edge tools including drill bits and saw blades. It will also contain my chainsaw sharpening equipment. About the only thing it will not hold is my Foley Belsaw 1"x42" abrasive belt grinder which is on its own stand.
Of course at least one will be for the attachments and and accessories for the 9 Shopsmiths that are not machine specific. Machine specific items are planned to be stored at each machine.
Another tower will be all routers and accessories.
Right now I am planning 6 towers and I hope to keep them a little smaller than some I have seen. I hope that the largest will be about 2'x2' by about 5.5' tall. I am not currently planning to store all of the SPTs on a tower but make make them a spot there. Part of the whole concept of so many Shopsmiths is to be able to leave a number of set-ups intact including leaving such things as a bandsaw mounted on the end of one of them. Likewise the 6"x48" belt sander. The jigsaw and the jointer I do not expect to leave mounted. I have a stand alone 6" long-bed jointer.
The shop is 48' long and I want to be able to grab a tower and pull it to where I will be working. I am planning for each tower to have a towing handle similar to a child's wagon (only longer) so I can pull it across the floor pulling from the bottom of the tower and not have it tip over from hitting a small piece of scrap on the floor because I am pushing or pulling from up high on the tower.

robinson46176 wrote:...In my own case at 67 I still don't know what I want to do when (if) I grow up... I'm prone to jump back and forth from one activity to another and I am constantly changing things around. I have very deep roots to my farm but for all hobbies the key word is "PORTABLE".
I am gathering materials right now to build a whole series of storage towers, all on wheels...

Hi farmer,
I like your attitude; I have knot yet decided what I am going to be when I grow up either. We had better hurry up, don't you think?

As for your other storage plans, they sound great!