Building Kitchen Cabinets (Paperback) Review
Posted on October 12, 2009
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If you want to have a truely unique kitchen, you will need to build it yourself. This will probably save you a fair bit of money plus give you a room that you will be wanting to show off to every person who walks through your front door.
Building Kitchen Cabinets by professional cabinetmaker Udo Schmidt will show you, no matter what your cabinet making skills are, how to build a complete set of kitchen cabinets. This book contains 350 color photos and black and white illustrations which cover the whole process of building your kitchen cabinets from preparing your materials and choosing the correct tools to finishing and installing the units.
One of the great things about this book is Udo tells it straight. He talks to you as though you are working with him, not reading his book. He uses alot of pocket hole joinery (with a KREG Pocket Hole Jig) which is a quick and effective method to screw together the drawer boxes, face frames and also to screw the face frame onto the cabinet carcase. This form of joinery is reversable if you make a mistake, which can be cheaper than having to buy more timber and starting from the begining again.
One thing to note if you do buy this book. Double check all of the formulas. For example:
Pages 60 & 61 give the formulas to work out rail length and panel height for raised panel doors and are both wrong due to a basic error showing a subtraction operation rather than addition.
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