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Building Kitchen Cabinets |  | Author: Udo Schmidt Dip
Publisher: Taunton Press
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Edition: illustrated edition
Pages: 176
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Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 9.1 x 0.4
ISBN: 1561584703
Dewey Decimal Number: 684.16
EAN: 9781561584703
Publication Date: April 2003
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Product Description
Building instead of buying cabinets means not only cost savings but also better materials and a truly custom kitchen. This book shows anyone how to build a complete set of kitchen cabinets. Professional cabinetmaker Udo Schmidt covers the entire process, from preparing materials and selecting the right tools to finishing and installing hardware. 350 color photos and black-and-white illustrations are included.
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 A practical guide from someone who knows. September 10, 2003
Bob Feeser (Springfield, PA USA)
181 out of 181 found this review helpful
I like this book. Lots of pictures, insider tips, and a no nonsense approach to cabinet building. The author gives it to you straight. He uses pocket hole joinery in abundance. Why? Because it takes less time, joins strong, and is reversible if you want to correct something. He doesn't go for a lot of complex joinery that is very time consuming, and not what the customer cares about.
Myself I want to also build some heirloom quality cabinets. You know dovetails in every drawer corner. Inside panel solid wood overlays. Dadoes throughout, with hand rubbed finishes. You know the works. This is not about that. If you want to get practical and build fabulous looking hand made cabinets for a living, or for yourself, and not spend a month or a year doing it, this is the book for you. Instead of using plastic laminated interior panels, with fake wood, like the home centers sell you, you can use cabinet grade veneer plywood instead. This book will show you how.
Robert Yoder gives you the insider tips, on what it takes to make professional cabinets, and not waste time on non-essentials. For example, one of many that are in the book, he says that you have the option, of once gluing up your raised face panel, you can insert two finish nails in the back of the panel, at the joint of the rails and stiles, and free your clamps up for another panel. No having to have a wall full of clamps that way. See what I mean about practical. He also uses the pocket hole joinery to join his face frame panels, with the pocket holes in the back of the panel. Way quicker than mortise and tenon joinery, and actually less difficult to get a perfect fit.
I think every cabinetmaker has to have at his disposal, procedures that will enable him to make a fine set of cabinets that fit into any practical budget. This book will show you how. This is a far cry from standardized home center cabinetry. Custom-built cabinets, take into consideration that over the oven microwave cabinet, that fits it perfectly. Unlike the standardized cabinets that are pre-built, then modified on site to accommodate the custom fit. It shows.
I like everything about this book. His honesty, practical approach, insider tips, knowing what can go wrong, and ways to prevent it. Nothing talks better than experience. This guy shoots from the hip, and knows what it is like to be out in the field.
I think every level of cabinetry should be in your arsenal, and at your fingertips. This one is the one you will most frequently use. An easy read, with lots of illustrative photographs in color. It makes a great addition to your library. Highly recommended.
FANTASTIC introduction to building face frame cabinets July 5, 2006
Frank Shic (vallejo, CA)
62 out of 62 found this review helpful
I did a lot of research prior to building my own kitchen cabinets earlier this year and this book was what inspired me the most as Udo's Schmidt's cabinets are simply BEAUTIFUL encompassing many custom details like: mitered corner returns, beaded inset face frames, raised panel doors/drawer fronts, dovetailed drawers and arched mullion glass upper cabinet doors.
He basically sold me on the KREG pocket hole jig as he explains quite thoroughly the ease by which you can use it to not only screw together the face frames, but also to screw the face frame on to the cabinet carcase and also to screw together drawer boxes. Schmidt also covers how to use biscuit joinery to help with aligning the bottom edge of your face frame to the bottom of the cabinet so that you don't have an annoying ledge scraping your arm when cleaning or getting objects out of the cabinet. His coverage of making the mullions for arched upper cabinet doors is worth the price of the book alone! I would caution against using the same router bit that you used for the stiles as the diameter is a little too wide except for an absurdly wide mullion - use a standard cove bit instead. He also covers how to build dovetail drawers (come on, you know you want them...) with the katie jig although you can do the same with the STOTS dovetail template master for much less money.
This book will NOT give you exact dimensions on all of the cabinets that you will have to build for your kitchen. Very few cabinetry books do this with the exception of Danny Proulx's excellent book. The formula for calculating the raised panel door rail is incorrect but very EASILY recognizable by anyone with any basic algebra skills (rail width=total door width-(2 x stile width)+(2 x rail tongue - usually 3/8 so a total of 3/4)). If you want custom dimensions quickly, I would highly recommend getting a copy of ecabinets and learning how to use it. Cutlist plus (at LEAST silver edition) is also very helpful so that you don't waste too much stock.
Finally, if you are seriously considering building your own kitchen cabinets, be prepared to invest in some decent tools: contractor table saw with sliding table attachment or a eurekazone cutting guide or festool rail guide, biscuit jointer, power drill, kreg pocket hole jig, two routers (at least one that's 3hp for raised panels), a random orbital sander for face frames and raised panels, an HVLP gun for clear finishes or an airless if you're going to be doing painted doors, a circular saw for cutting pieces down to more manageable pieces, an impact driver for installation, a jig saw if you're going to be doing arched raised panels and a jointer and a planer to prepare rough stock (this is a major time eater along with finishing!!!) and a dust collector and respirator mask. STRONGLY consider prefinished plywood or melamine to save some time in finishing.
Straight Forward Useful Information, Very Well Organized March 6, 2004
29 out of 30 found this review helpful
This is the third book of its kind that I have purchased, and thankfully I now feel I have the necessary information to construct our new cabinets, thanks to this book. This is by far the best book of its type for me. It covers everything you can imagine and then some, as regards to kitchen cabinet construction. How to select materials, shop equipment, power tools, and gives you very good suggestions on how to go about the entire process, in a step by step fashion.
The only subject he suggests you get more info on is finishing, suggesting entire books are written about this subject, but he does go on and give you his brief advice for finishing your cabinets.
The photos in the book are excellent, and once again, the how to and tips on what to avoid and where to look for problems is spot on and very well done. I highly recommend this book to any and all amateur cabinet makers.
I cannot say enough good about it, this book is exactly what was seeking all along. hope this helps;
Jeff
Best for "Heirloom" Quality Cabinets October 27, 2006
Mr. Smith (Pennsylvania)
18 out of 18 found this review helpful
I'm an intermediate woodworker at best. I purchased four books from Amazon on building cabinets before I started. This is the only book that is actually still in my workshop (covered in sawdust) being used as a reference.
I set out to build top quality cabinets. I find this book teaches the quality of cabinets that I want to build and gives flexible formulas to get the right dimensions. Lots of diagrams and pictures that are useful when trying to figure out answers to little problems, like how to divide up raised panels on pantry doors. It also found that it has the most useful chapter on finishing. I find in general that Taunton books are the best, and this book is no exception.
I built 17 cabinets, including 2 pantries with pullout drawers and a peninsula with raised panels all around using the methods described in this book and it took me about a year of Saturdays. About 80% of my time was spent dimensioning rough cut lumber and finishing the completed cabinets. If you want to build less expensive cabinets quickly, such as for a rental property, or a property you are going to sell soon, I recommend the Danny Proulx book. Using Proulx's techniques, the same cabinets could probably be built in a week and the results are as good as stock cabinets you would by at a homecenter.
Excellent book if you actually want to build cabinets May 3, 2008
Elroy Skimms (Charlotte, NC USA)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
I bought this book and Danny Proulx's Build Your Own Kitchen Cabinets (Popular Woodworking). Proulx's book focused on particleboard construction and mostly 32mm cabinets. I was very dissapointed as I was anxious to start building cabinets and particleboard is not what I was looking for. This book however, was just what the Dr. ordered. I'm very comfortable with my tools and have been woodworking for years now, but I still found some usefull tips in the book. I skimmed the book without reading all of it and immediately bought the lumber I needed and began construction. I had a completed bathroom vanity cabinet in 1 afternoon (not including stain and finish). As others have mentioned, his dimensions are not perfect, but since my house doesn't perfectly match the book, I used my own tape measure.
Even with the dimension issues here and there, I highly recommend this book for anyone who actually wants to make cabinets. I have a few other books that discuss the "idea" of making cabinets. This one tells you the tools you need and how to do it. It focuses on pocket-hole joinery but it also shows how you can use other joinery techniques as well. I can't stress this point enough... if you are planning on building cabinets, you will love this book. If you just want to read about building cabinets, this book isn't what you want.
I'm off to buy more lumber for more cabinets!!!!
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