Garage Cabinets ONGOING

finished cutting the grooves for the door/drawer frames and I was able to get 90% of the way through the tenon cuts using my home made tenon jig!
Next up is to cut the 1/4" inner panel, then I can start assembling those drawers/doors and finally shift focus to how I want to build the bench top.

A dado blade would have been beneficial…
Inner and outer grooves for the drawer and door frames are cut!
Next I will do the centre and tenon cuts and then I can assemble them.

Precarious positions, but I was able to get these front stretchers attached!

I was able to clean up the cabinet doors to an acceptable level, and install the hinges!
It’s not perfect, but it is coming together.

Assembled a singular cabinet door today. Not overly happy with how this one came out. It’s actually much smaller than I imagined and it will sit on top of the face rather than sit flush inside the cabinet.
It’s fine but definitely different than I imagined. In the future I will be measuring as I go (not just following plans blindly) and ensuring the project is exactly as I intend.

Finished assembling one of the drawer faces. It’s definitely not perfect and it needs to be sanded, but not bad for my first!

Used the tenoning jig to build the drawer faces today!

Created a tenoning jig so I can make some dicey vertical cuts on the table saw!

Over the last few nights I have slowly assembled the drawers and installed them in the cabinet carcasses.
I did end up making a small error in sizing due to following the plans I bought without measuring first. Again… these small errors are exactly why I started with garage cabinets. Still fairly proud of how they are coming together!

Ended up building a much larger table saw sled that will allow me to cross cut those larger quarter sheets.
I wasn’t happy with the results of using my Kreg cross cut jig with my circular saw.
I also finished cutting to size all of my drawer pieces with the smaller cross cut sled.

Finished assembling the carcasses!

Late night (9pm) pocket hole drilling. I was able to cut all of the stretchers earlier today which allowed me to do this repetitive (and cathartic) process on 16 stretchers.
I was also able to assemble a few!

Decided to get most of the materials needed to build the remaining 4 cabinet carcasses.
I cut 3 sheets of 3/4” birch plywood into quarters and was able to fit it all into my Elantra. Truck not required.

I also ended up building my first table saw cross cut sled.

Started assembling the cabinet carcass today!

The start of my cabinet project! Started with just enough wood to build 1 cabinet.
Went with 3/4” birch plywood.