Now that summer is here, it's get back to cabinets before surgury. I've been tinkering here and there through winter, but didn't update the sight simpley because there wasn't a whole lot of progress I felt. Now that warmer weather is here and in between the pain limits, I'm getting more done and by golly, I plan to be recouperating, living in the new house come hell or high water! This cabinet is 24" deep, and divided in half. On one side will be a china cabinet, and the other for Denise's antique bottle collection.
Most of the base cabinets will have pull outs behind all the lower doors
It's sure nice to see some progress going on, but will be even nicer to see the shop empty so I can organize and place things better.
It was nice to get a visit from an old friend. A few weeks ago, Jerry and Anne McCoy dropped in from Missouri. Sure wished they could have stayed longer, because it was so pleasurable to have them here.
After they left, I jumped on sawing more pine, as I was eating it up pretty quick milling all my jamb stock, and door trim
Finally got the sink base init complete, and will complete the peninsula today. I don't normally mount everything at this stage, but in this case there is so much fitting that touching up latter after the paint, it would be a nightmare! I wished the chrome hardware would show up better, but I guess it's the nature of the beast till the light green paint goes on
This is the color we decided on, and the end of the peninsula base cabinet. The turnings are also a product of my lumber sawing, and will support the china cabinet that will sit on the counter top
I'll tell ya........one of the best investments I made was my Logosal mill. It's so nice not to have to run down to the lumber yard for lumber. Just pull it out from a pile, slap a meter on it for moisture levels and go!
This pine I sawed up a month to 5 weeks ago. As you can see.....it registers 6% yeahhh baby!
A few shots milling with my chainsaw mill. What I like is how square and smooth the boards end up being. This pine is just about clear, and 16" wide.
Had to build a new ramp, cause the other got pretty beat up. You would'nt believe how heavy these slabs are...........phew
I found that sticking a simple wedge in is easier, and get more mileage between sharpenings using an 18" bar.
I love hauling sawdust. Makes great trails for walking or riding. Now doing a trail just over a rise making a circle and coming back to the begining.
This taking forever to install all the hardware on these cabinets. Everything has to be on the money and just isn't a fast way of gettting done. I know......it's pine. Got plenty of it, and we don't have any kids to abuse them. They'll also be getting paint. I could have gone poplar like I usually do, but like I said.....I have plenty of pine and may as well use it.
Behind all doors, there will be pull outs for pots and pans. The pulll out fronts are yellow birch
2coats of primer, and 1st top coat. Man......doing this in oil takes forever but won't ever do this again. I'll have some laquer tinted and avoid all the lengthy drying time and curing.
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