Kitchen Remodel

Karson said:

Buffet and Hutch

My wife says I can't do anything else before I start on her Kitchen. Well except for her hall table and ??. Of course there is also the Summer Contest.

This is going to be a multiple phase project. I need to do something with the floor. We are on a cement slab floor and it is killing both of our legs. The kitchen had a Pergo floor when we bought the house, but we had a frozen water line before we moved in and the Pergo floor got curled edges, so it was all pulled up.

I don't' think I want 3/8" inch flooring and I'm leaning to solid hardwood 3/4" thick. Either on the cement or over a spacer board underneath. I don't know what I'll do yet. I'm still researching.

So in the interim I going to start to build a couple of furniture pieces that will be in the kitchen.

The first is a Buffet / Hutch. This is from Fine Woodworking Jan / Feb of 2007. I don't plan on making this exact design. I don't know if we will have glass in the upper cabinet. I want all drawers on the bottom not cabinet doors. But, the construction details are fairly solid.

. I'm starting to draw the full size legs with all of the mortise for the styles and rails. They used 1/2" plywood for the sides and backs, but I'll probably go with 3/4 and put some burl cherry veneer on it. The wood will be cherry. I'll get to use the 19" cherry board for the Buffet top surface. I'll have to glue on a 1 1/2" piece at the back to make it 21 1/2. Of course my planer is only 20" wide so I'll have to finish up the joint with a hand plane or scraper.

I plan to take down a wall that is beside the refrigerator to make it an "L" shaped kitchen. There is no dining room so it is an eat-in-kitchen. The previous owner took down a half-wall between the kitchen area and the eating area.

I plan to build a couple of furniture items 1) The Buffet and 2) A storage pantry for all of the can goods.

The floor area is approx 400 Sq Ft. after I take out the wall.

I'm waiting for a woodworker club member to finish assembling a pantry cabinet that he is building for a commission. I want to show it to my wife. She is not good at visualizing without pictures or actual items.

She wants the kitchen light, but I'm going to sneak in this Cherry Buffet while the color is still light and then let it age in her kitchen.

She's happy with Dave's Cherry Thorsen Table. So it might be a good match. When i start working on the rest of the cabinets we'll see what the wood becomes, and also the floor.

Any suggestions or pictures of a storage pantry would be nice if you have some.

Click to expand...

Karson said:

Buffet and Hutch

My wife says I can't do anything else before I start on her Kitchen. Well except for her hall table and ??. Of course there is also the Summer Contest.

This is going to be a multiple phase project. I need to do something with the floor. We are on a cement slab floor and it is killing both of our legs. The kitchen had a Pergo floor when we bought the house, but we had a frozen water line before we moved in and the Pergo floor got curled edges, so it was all pulled up.

I don't' think I want 3/8" inch flooring and I'm leaning to solid hardwood 3/4" thick. Either on the cement or over a spacer board underneath. I don't know what I'll do yet. I'm still researching.

So in the interim I going to start to build a couple of furniture pieces that will be in the kitchen.

The first is a Buffet / Hutch. This is from Fine Woodworking Jan / Feb of 2007. I don't plan on making this exact design. I don't know if we will have glass in the upper cabinet. I want all drawers on the bottom not cabinet doors. But, the construction details are fairly solid.

. I'm starting to draw the full size legs with all of the mortise for the styles and rails. They used 1/2" plywood for the sides and backs, but I'll probably go with 3/4 and put some burl cherry veneer on it. The wood will be cherry. I'll get to use the 19" cherry board for the Buffet top surface. I'll have to glue on a 1 1/2" piece at the back to make it 21 1/2. Of course my planer is only 20" wide so I'll have to finish up the joint with a hand plane or scraper.

I plan to take down a wall that is beside the refrigerator to make it an "L" shaped kitchen. There is no dining room so it is an eat-in-kitchen. The previous owner took down a half-wall between the kitchen area and the eating area.

I plan to build a couple of furniture items 1) The Buffet and 2) A storage pantry for all of the can goods.

The floor area is approx 400 Sq Ft. after I take out the wall.

I'm waiting for a woodworker club member to finish assembling a pantry cabinet that he is building for a commission. I want to show it to my wife. She is not good at visualizing without pictures or actual items.

She wants the kitchen light, but I'm going to sneak in this Cherry Buffet while the color is still light and then let it age in her kitchen.

She's happy with Dave's Cherry Thorsen Table. So it might be a good match. When i start working on the rest of the cabinets we'll see what the wood becomes, and also the floor.

Any suggestions or pictures of a storage pantry would be nice if you have some.

Click to expand...

Karson said:

Buffet and Hutch

My wife says I can't do anything else before I start on her Kitchen. Well except for her hall table and ??. Of course there is also the Summer Contest.

This is going to be a multiple phase project. I need to do something with the floor. We are on a cement slab floor and it is killing both of our legs. The kitchen had a Pergo floor when we bought the house, but we had a frozen water line before we moved in and the Pergo floor got curled edges, so it was all pulled up.

I don't' think I want 3/8" inch flooring and I'm leaning to solid hardwood 3/4" thick. Either on the cement or over a spacer board underneath. I don't know what I'll do yet. I'm still researching.

So in the interim I going to start to build a couple of furniture pieces that will be in the kitchen.

The first is a Buffet / Hutch. This is from Fine Woodworking Jan / Feb of 2007. I don't plan on making this exact design. I don't know if we will have glass in the upper cabinet. I want all drawers on the bottom not cabinet doors. But, the construction details are fairly solid.

. I'm starting to draw the full size legs with all of the mortise for the styles and rails. They used 1/2" plywood for the sides and backs, but I'll probably go with 3/4 and put some burl cherry veneer on it. The wood will be cherry. I'll get to use the 19" cherry board for the Buffet top surface. I'll have to glue on a 1 1/2" piece at the back to make it 21 1/2. Of course my planer is only 20" wide so I'll have to finish up the joint with a hand plane or scraper.

I plan to take down a wall that is beside the refrigerator to make it an "L" shaped kitchen. There is no dining room so it is an eat-in-kitchen. The previous owner took down a half-wall between the kitchen area and the eating area.

I plan to build a couple of furniture items 1) The Buffet and 2) A storage pantry for all of the can goods.

The floor area is approx 400 Sq Ft. after I take out the wall.

I'm waiting for a woodworker club member to finish assembling a pantry cabinet that he is building for a commission. I want to show it to my wife. She is not good at visualizing without pictures or actual items.

She wants the kitchen light, but I'm going to sneak in this Cherry Buffet while the color is still light and then let it age in her kitchen.

She's happy with Dave's Cherry Thorsen Table. So it might be a good match. When i start working on the rest of the cabinets we'll see what the wood becomes, and also the floor.

Any suggestions or pictures of a storage pantry would be nice if you have some.

Click to expand...

Karson said:

Buffet and Hutch

My wife says I can't do anything else before I start on her Kitchen. Well except for her hall table and ??. Of course there is also the Summer Contest.

This is going to be a multiple phase project. I need to do something with the floor. We are on a cement slab floor and it is killing both of our legs. The kitchen had a Pergo floor when we bought the house, but we had a frozen water line before we moved in and the Pergo floor got curled edges, so it was all pulled up.

I don't' think I want 3/8" inch flooring and I'm leaning to solid hardwood 3/4" thick. Either on the cement or over a spacer board underneath. I don't know what I'll do yet. I'm still researching.

So in the interim I going to start to build a couple of furniture pieces that will be in the kitchen.

The first is a Buffet / Hutch. This is from Fine Woodworking Jan / Feb of 2007. I don't plan on making this exact design. I don't know if we will have glass in the upper cabinet. I want all drawers on the bottom not cabinet doors. But, the construction details are fairly solid.

. I'm starting to draw the full size legs with all of the mortise for the styles and rails. They used 1/2" plywood for the sides and backs, but I'll probably go with 3/4 and put some burl cherry veneer on it. The wood will be cherry. I'll get to use the 19" cherry board for the Buffet top surface. I'll have to glue on a 1 1/2" piece at the back to make it 21 1/2. Of course my planer is only 20" wide so I'll have to finish up the joint with a hand plane or scraper.

I plan to take down a wall that is beside the refrigerator to make it an "L" shaped kitchen. There is no dining room so it is an eat-in-kitchen. The previous owner took down a half-wall between the kitchen area and the eating area.

I plan to build a couple of furniture items 1) The Buffet and 2) A storage pantry for all of the can goods.

The floor area is approx 400 Sq Ft. after I take out the wall.

I'm waiting for a woodworker club member to finish assembling a pantry cabinet that he is building for a commission. I want to show it to my wife. She is not good at visualizing without pictures or actual items.

She wants the kitchen light, but I'm going to sneak in this Cherry Buffet while the color is still light and then let it age in her kitchen.

She's happy with Dave's Cherry Thorsen Table. So it might be a good match. When i start working on the rest of the cabinets we'll see what the wood becomes, and also the floor.

Any suggestions or pictures of a storage pantry would be nice if you have some.

Click to expand...

Karson said:

Buffet and Hutch

My wife says I can't do anything else before I start on her Kitchen. Well except for her hall table and ??. Of course there is also the Summer Contest.

This is going to be a multiple phase project. I need to do something with the floor. We are on a cement slab floor and it is killing both of our legs. The kitchen had a Pergo floor when we bought the house, but we had a frozen water line before we moved in and the Pergo floor got curled edges, so it was all pulled up.

I don't' think I want 3/8" inch flooring and I'm leaning to solid hardwood 3/4" thick. Either on the cement or over a spacer board underneath. I don't know what I'll do yet. I'm still researching.

So in the interim I going to start to build a couple of furniture pieces that will be in the kitchen.

The first is a Buffet / Hutch. This is from Fine Woodworking Jan / Feb of 2007. I don't plan on making this exact design. I don't know if we will have glass in the upper cabinet. I want all drawers on the bottom not cabinet doors. But, the construction details are fairly solid.

. I'm starting to draw the full size legs with all of the mortise for the styles and rails. They used 1/2" plywood for the sides and backs, but I'll probably go with 3/4 and put some burl cherry veneer on it. The wood will be cherry. I'll get to use the 19" cherry board for the Buffet top surface. I'll have to glue on a 1 1/2" piece at the back to make it 21 1/2. Of course my planer is only 20" wide so I'll have to finish up the joint with a hand plane or scraper.

I plan to take down a wall that is beside the refrigerator to make it an "L" shaped kitchen. There is no dining room so it is an eat-in-kitchen. The previous owner took down a half-wall between the kitchen area and the eating area.

I plan to build a couple of furniture items 1) The Buffet and 2) A storage pantry for all of the can goods.

The floor area is approx 400 Sq Ft. after I take out the wall.

I'm waiting for a woodworker club member to finish assembling a pantry cabinet that he is building for a commission. I want to show it to my wife. She is not good at visualizing without pictures or actual items.

She wants the kitchen light, but I'm going to sneak in this Cherry Buffet while the color is still light and then let it age in her kitchen.

She's happy with Dave's Cherry Thorsen Table. So it might be a good match. When i start working on the rest of the cabinets we'll see what the wood becomes, and also the floor.

Any suggestions or pictures of a storage pantry would be nice if you have some.

Click to expand...

Karson said:

Buffet and Hutch

My wife says I can't do anything else before I start on her Kitchen. Well except for her hall table and ??. Of course there is also the Summer Contest.

This is going to be a multiple phase project. I need to do something with the floor. We are on a cement slab floor and it is killing both of our legs. The kitchen had a Pergo floor when we bought the house, but we had a frozen water line before we moved in and the Pergo floor got curled edges, so it was all pulled up.

I don't' think I want 3/8" inch flooring and I'm leaning to solid hardwood 3/4" thick. Either on the cement or over a spacer board underneath. I don't know what I'll do yet. I'm still researching.

So in the interim I going to start to build a couple of furniture pieces that will be in the kitchen.

The first is a Buffet / Hutch. This is from Fine Woodworking Jan / Feb of 2007. I don't plan on making this exact design. I don't know if we will have glass in the upper cabinet. I want all drawers on the bottom not cabinet doors. But, the construction details are fairly solid.

. I'm starting to draw the full size legs with all of the mortise for the styles and rails. They used 1/2" plywood for the sides and backs, but I'll probably go with 3/4 and put some burl cherry veneer on it. The wood will be cherry. I'll get to use the 19" cherry board for the Buffet top surface. I'll have to glue on a 1 1/2" piece at the back to make it 21 1/2. Of course my planer is only 20" wide so I'll have to finish up the joint with a hand plane or scraper.

I plan to take down a wall that is beside the refrigerator to make it an "L" shaped kitchen. There is no dining room so it is an eat-in-kitchen. The previous owner took down a half-wall between the kitchen area and the eating area.

I plan to build a couple of furniture items 1) The Buffet and 2) A storage pantry for all of the can goods.

The floor area is approx 400 Sq Ft. after I take out the wall.

I'm waiting for a woodworker club member to finish assembling a pantry cabinet that he is building for a commission. I want to show it to my wife. She is not good at visualizing without pictures or actual items.

She wants the kitchen light, but I'm going to sneak in this Cherry Buffet while the color is still light and then let it age in her kitchen.

She's happy with Dave's Cherry Thorsen Table. So it might be a good match. When i start working on the rest of the cabinets we'll see what the wood becomes, and also the floor.

Any suggestions or pictures of a storage pantry would be nice if you have some.

Click to expand...

Karson said:

Making the legs.

Well I started the Buffet / Hutch. If I don't get started I won't have anything to say without getting myself in trouble, when my wife asks me what I'm making in the shop.

I started out by making a full size template on plywood for all of the milling that needs to be done on the legs.

Can you believe that those two templates have all of the instructions for milling 8 surfaces on the legs?
Now you may ask what do you mean by 8 surfaces. This is the way that I was taught when you make a project with legs.

You number them. The right front is 1 and you go counterclock wise to 8. You only number the surfaces that touch another leg. Surfaces 1 and 8 are the front.

This allows you to make items like aprons and then you label the ends with the appropriate numbers. You might see the numbers on the shelf supports on the Thorsen Tables that I worked on.

When you dry fit a part you label it so that when you start to glue, you know that you have all of the appropriate parts, and the one's you don't need are put away. This keeps you from gluing the wrong part in at the wrong place.

After labeling the legs, I then put the marks for the mortises on the legs.

Then it was then on to the mortise machine to cut out square holes.

Cutting out the spaces between the ends of the mortise.

When you get done you better have matching holes in each of the adjoining pieces

Then it's out to the Horizontal Router to cut the long mortises for the side panels.

Note to self and others Router bits do break. This one just dropped to the ground and didn't go flying around. Praise the Lord! New router bit and complete the job.

Line up the ends in number order and verify that the cuts were made correctly.

Then match the other sides and check them out.

This is the pattern that I'm modifying for my kitchen. Fine Woodworking Jan / Feb 2007.

All done for tonight now to eat smoked chicken that was cooking with cherry wood smoke.

Click to expand...

Karson said:

Making the legs.

Well I started the Buffet / Hutch. If I don't get started I won't have anything to say without getting myself in trouble, when my wife asks me what I'm making in the shop.

I started out by making a full size template on plywood for all of the milling that needs to be done on the legs.

Can you believe that those two templates have all of the instructions for milling 8 surfaces on the legs?
Now you may ask what do you mean by 8 surfaces. This is the way that I was taught when you make a project with legs.

You number them. The right front is 1 and you go counterclock wise to 8. You only number the surfaces that touch another leg. Surfaces 1 and 8 are the front.

This allows you to make items like aprons and then you label the ends with the appropriate numbers. You might see the numbers on the shelf supports on the Thorsen Tables that I worked on.

When you dry fit a part you label it so that when you start to glue, you know that you have all of the appropriate parts, and the one's you don't need are put away. This keeps you from gluing the wrong part in at the wrong place.

After labeling the legs, I then put the marks for the mortises on the legs.

Then it was then on to the mortise machine to cut out square holes.

Cutting out the spaces between the ends of the mortise.

When you get done you better have matching holes in each of the adjoining pieces

Then it's out to the Horizontal Router to cut the long mortises for the side panels.

Note to self and others Router bits do break. This one just dropped to the ground and didn't go flying around. Praise the Lord! New router bit and complete the job.

Line up the ends in number order and verify that the cuts were made correctly.

Then match the other sides and check them out.

This is the pattern that I'm modifying for my kitchen. Fine Woodworking Jan / Feb 2007.

All done for tonight now to eat smoked chicken that was cooking with cherry wood smoke.

Click to expand...

Karson said:

Making the legs.

Well I started the Buffet / Hutch. If I don't get started I won't have anything to say without getting myself in trouble, when my wife asks me what I'm making in the shop.

I started out by making a full size template on plywood for all of the milling that needs to be done on the legs.

Can you believe that those two templates have all of the instructions for milling 8 surfaces on the legs?
Now you may ask what do you mean by 8 surfaces. This is the way that I was taught when you make a project with legs.

You number them. The right front is 1 and you go counterclock wise to 8. You only number the surfaces that touch another leg. Surfaces 1 and 8 are the front.

This allows you to make items like aprons and then you label the ends with the appropriate numbers. You might see the numbers on the shelf supports on the Thorsen Tables that I worked on.

When you dry fit a part you label it so that when you start to glue, you know that you have all of the appropriate parts, and the one's you don't need are put away. This keeps you from gluing the wrong part in at the wrong place.

After labeling the legs, I then put the marks for the mortises on the legs.

Then it was then on to the mortise machine to cut out square holes.

Cutting out the spaces between the ends of the mortise.

When you get done you better have matching holes in each of the adjoining pieces

Then it's out to the Horizontal Router to cut the long mortises for the side panels.

Note to self and others Router bits do break. This one just dropped to the ground and didn't go flying around. Praise the Lord! New router bit and complete the job.

Line up the ends in number order and verify that the cuts were made correctly.

Then match the other sides and check them out.

This is the pattern that I'm modifying for my kitchen. Fine Woodworking Jan / Feb 2007.

All done for tonight now to eat smoked chicken that was cooking with cherry wood smoke.

Click to expand...

Karson said:

Making the legs.

Well I started the Buffet / Hutch. If I don't get started I won't have anything to say without getting myself in trouble, when my wife asks me what I'm making in the shop.

I started out by making a full size template on plywood for all of the milling that needs to be done on the legs.

Can you believe that those two templates have all of the instructions for milling 8 surfaces on the legs?
Now you may ask what do you mean by 8 surfaces. This is the way that I was taught when you make a project with legs.

You number them. The right front is 1 and you go counterclock wise to 8. You only number the surfaces that touch another leg. Surfaces 1 and 8 are the front.

This allows you to make items like aprons and then you label the ends with the appropriate numbers. You might see the numbers on the shelf supports on the Thorsen Tables that I worked on.

When you dry fit a part you label it so that when you start to glue, you know that you have all of the appropriate parts, and the one's you don't need are put away. This keeps you from gluing the wrong part in at the wrong place.

After labeling the legs, I then put the marks for the mortises on the legs.

Then it was then on to the mortise machine to cut out square holes.

Cutting out the spaces between the ends of the mortise.

When you get done you better have matching holes in each of the adjoining pieces

Then it's out to the Horizontal Router to cut the long mortises for the side panels.

Note to self and others Router bits do break. This one just dropped to the ground and didn't go flying around. Praise the Lord! New router bit and complete the job.

Line up the ends in number order and verify that the cuts were made correctly.

Then match the other sides and check them out.

This is the pattern that I'm modifying for my kitchen. Fine Woodworking Jan / Feb 2007.

All done for tonight now to eat smoked chicken that was cooking with cherry wood smoke.

Click to expand...

Karson said:

Making the legs.

Well I started the Buffet / Hutch. If I don't get started I won't have anything to say without getting myself in trouble, when my wife asks me what I'm making in the shop.

I started out by making a full size template on plywood for all of the milling that needs to be done on the legs.

Can you believe that those two templates have all of the instructions for milling 8 surfaces on the legs?
Now you may ask what do you mean by 8 surfaces. This is the way that I was taught when you make a project with legs.

You number them. The right front is 1 and you go counterclock wise to 8. You only number the surfaces that touch another leg. Surfaces 1 and 8 are the front.

This allows you to make items like aprons and then you label the ends with the appropriate numbers. You might see the numbers on the shelf supports on the Thorsen Tables that I worked on.

When you dry fit a part you label it so that when you start to glue, you know that you have all of the appropriate parts, and the one's you don't need are put away. This keeps you from gluing the wrong part in at the wrong place.

After labeling the legs, I then put the marks for the mortises on the legs.

Then it was then on to the mortise machine to cut out square holes.

Cutting out the spaces between the ends of the mortise.

When you get done you better have matching holes in each of the adjoining pieces

Then it's out to the Horizontal Router to cut the long mortises for the side panels.

Note to self and others Router bits do break. This one just dropped to the ground and didn't go flying around. Praise the Lord! New router bit and complete the job.

Line up the ends in number order and verify that the cuts were made correctly.

Then match the other sides and check them out.

This is the pattern that I'm modifying for my kitchen. Fine Woodworking Jan / Feb 2007.

All done for tonight now to eat smoked chicken that was cooking with cherry wood smoke.

Click to expand...

Karson said:

Making the legs.

Well I started the Buffet / Hutch. If I don't get started I won't have anything to say without getting myself in trouble, when my wife asks me what I'm making in the shop.

I started out by making a full size template on plywood for all of the milling that needs to be done on the legs.

Can you believe that those two templates have all of the instructions for milling 8 surfaces on the legs?
Now you may ask what do you mean by 8 surfaces. This is the way that I was taught when you make a project with legs.

You number them. The right front is 1 and you go counterclock wise to 8. You only number the surfaces that touch another leg. Surfaces 1 and 8 are the front.

This allows you to make items like aprons and then you label the ends with the appropriate numbers. You might see the numbers on the shelf supports on the Thorsen Tables that I worked on.

When you dry fit a part you label it so that when you start to glue, you know that you have all of the appropriate parts, and the one's you don't need are put away. This keeps you from gluing the wrong part in at the wrong place.

After labeling the legs, I then put the marks for the mortises on the legs.

Then it was then on to the mortise machine to cut out square holes.

Cutting out the spaces between the ends of the mortise.

When you get done you better have matching holes in each of the adjoining pieces

Then it's out to the Horizontal Router to cut the long mortises for the side panels.

Note to self and others Router bits do break. This one just dropped to the ground and didn't go flying around. Praise the Lord! New router bit and complete the job.

Line up the ends in number order and verify that the cuts were made correctly.

Then match the other sides and check them out.

This is the pattern that I'm modifying for my kitchen. Fine Woodworking Jan / Feb 2007.

All done for tonight now to eat smoked chicken that was cooking with cherry wood smoke.

Click to expand...

Karson said:

Making the legs.

Well I started the Buffet / Hutch. If I don't get started I won't have anything to say without getting myself in trouble, when my wife asks me what I'm making in the shop.

I started out by making a full size template on plywood for all of the milling that needs to be done on the legs.

Can you believe that those two templates have all of the instructions for milling 8 surfaces on the legs?
Now you may ask what do you mean by 8 surfaces. This is the way that I was taught when you make a project with legs.

You number them. The right front is 1 and you go counterclock wise to 8. You only number the surfaces that touch another leg. Surfaces 1 and 8 are the front.

This allows you to make items like aprons and then you label the ends with the appropriate numbers. You might see the numbers on the shelf supports on the Thorsen Tables that I worked on.

When you dry fit a part you label it so that when you start to glue, you know that you have all of the appropriate parts, and the one's you don't need are put away. This keeps you from gluing the wrong part in at the wrong place.

After labeling the legs, I then put the marks for the mortises on the legs.

Then it was then on to the mortise machine to cut out square holes.

Cutting out the spaces between the ends of the mortise.

When you get done you better have matching holes in each of the adjoining pieces

Then it's out to the Horizontal Router to cut the long mortises for the side panels.

Note to self and others Router bits do break. This one just dropped to the ground and didn't go flying around. Praise the Lord! New router bit and complete the job.

Line up the ends in number order and verify that the cuts were made correctly.

Then match the other sides and check them out.

This is the pattern that I'm modifying for my kitchen. Fine Woodworking Jan / Feb 2007.

All done for tonight now to eat smoked chicken that was cooking with cherry wood smoke.

Click to expand...

Karson said:

Making the legs.

Well I started the Buffet / Hutch. If I don't get started I won't have anything to say without getting myself in trouble, when my wife asks me what I'm making in the shop.

I started out by making a full size template on plywood for all of the milling that needs to be done on the legs.

Can you believe that those two templates have all of the instructions for milling 8 surfaces on the legs?
Now you may ask what do you mean by 8 surfaces. This is the way that I was taught when you make a project with legs.

You number them. The right front is 1 and you go counterclock wise to 8. You only number the surfaces that touch another leg. Surfaces 1 and 8 are the front.

This allows you to make items like aprons and then you label the ends with the appropriate numbers. You might see the numbers on the shelf supports on the Thorsen Tables that I worked on.

When you dry fit a part you label it so that when you start to glue, you know that you have all of the appropriate parts, and the one's you don't need are put away. This keeps you from gluing the wrong part in at the wrong place.

After labeling the legs, I then put the marks for the mortises on the legs.

Then it was then on to the mortise machine to cut out square holes.

Cutting out the spaces between the ends of the mortise.

When you get done you better have matching holes in each of the adjoining pieces

Then it's out to the Horizontal Router to cut the long mortises for the side panels.

Note to self and others Router bits do break. This one just dropped to the ground and didn't go flying around. Praise the Lord! New router bit and complete the job.

Line up the ends in number order and verify that the cuts were made correctly.

Then match the other sides and check them out.

This is the pattern that I'm modifying for my kitchen. Fine Woodworking Jan / Feb 2007.

All done for tonight now to eat smoked chicken that was cooking with cherry wood smoke.

Click to expand...

Karson said:

Making the legs.

Well I started the Buffet / Hutch. If I don't get started I won't have anything to say without getting myself in trouble, when my wife asks me what I'm making in the shop.

I started out by making a full size template on plywood for all of the milling that needs to be done on the legs.

Can you believe that those two templates have all of the instructions for milling 8 surfaces on the legs?
Now you may ask what do you mean by 8 surfaces. This is the way that I was taught when you make a project with legs.

You number them. The right front is 1 and you go counterclock wise to 8. You only number the surfaces that touch another leg. Surfaces 1 and 8 are the front.

This allows you to make items like aprons and then you label the ends with the appropriate numbers. You might see the numbers on the shelf supports on the Thorsen Tables that I worked on.

When you dry fit a part you label it so that when you start to glue, you know that you have all of the appropriate parts, and the one's you don't need are put away. This keeps you from gluing the wrong part in at the wrong place.

After labeling the legs, I then put the marks for the mortises on the legs.

Then it was then on to the mortise machine to cut out square holes.

Cutting out the spaces between the ends of the mortise.

When you get done you better have matching holes in each of the adjoining pieces

Then it's out to the Horizontal Router to cut the long mortises for the side panels.

Note to self and others Router bits do break. This one just dropped to the ground and didn't go flying around. Praise the Lord! New router bit and complete the job.

Line up the ends in number order and verify that the cuts were made correctly.

Then match the other sides and check them out.

This is the pattern that I'm modifying for my kitchen. Fine Woodworking Jan / Feb 2007.

All done for tonight now to eat smoked chicken that was cooking with cherry wood smoke.

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Karson said:

Buffet / Hutch Cutting the Stiles and Rails

The continuation of the Buffet / Hutch build. Today was a busy day, just not in the shop. Lunch with my wife, pick up the kids at school, etc. So when I got into the shop it was after dark.

I posted a blog on
Hardwood Lumber Grading
This is why. My best friend, who I moved away from when I moved to Delaware, and I went together to purchase some wood that was rated as Select. I was unable to go pick it up, but he went and picked up the wood.

If I had been there I think I would have walked away from the deal. It looks like to me that the seller cherry picked (not a pun on words) the select cherry and sold it to someone else or these boards were kicked out by a previous buyer. Here is the front of some of the boards. Yes they look like select lumber, Maybe a little light on the length.

But, here is the reverse side

The hardwood grading article has this statement when talking about No 2A Common: "The smallest clear cutting allowed is 3" by 2' and the number of these cuttings depends on the size of the board. If the poorest face meets the minimum requirements for Number 2A Common, it does not matter what the grade of the
better face is."

These boards are Select on the front face but maybe not even 2A Common on the back. If you were making a piece of furniture and you would see both faces then these boards are not acceptable. They classify this as flooring grade. On the buffet portion of this project, you don't see the inside so I'm trying to use up this wood instead of using better wood.

I had to make a story stick of the stiles and rails, in order to get the correct dimensions of this chest. See the previous blog about my feeling about the Fine Woodworking articles on making furniture.

So the boards were cut to length;

Then it was on to the jointer to true up one edge. I previously jointed the face and planed the thickness to get clear wood. This was done to allow me to see how these boards could be used.

Back to the table saw to rip to width.

The spots you see on two boards were the sweat of my brow, working in unfavorable conditions. I need to talk to the owner about that. I need Air Conditioning.

I stopped to figure out my tenons on these pieces, and the mortises on the rails for the stiles to fit in. I also wanted to post this blog. Tomorrow is toy making day (Wed) so maybe tomorrow night I'll get the tenons cut and then do a dry fit.

Again here is the Buffet that I'm attempting to build except mine will be all drawers in the buffet portion.

Picture Copyright Fine Woodworking Jan/Feb 2007.

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