Hey everyone its Dylan and we're back again for a start to finish video this time so you
guys really enjoyed the last one we have a start to finish video of that liquor cabinet
that we recently made so there was a lot of work that went into making this so we would
really appreciate if you guys could leave a like on the video right now before watching
this video is mostly just voiceover as well so it's just action shots of us actually building
this so I hope you guys enjoy so here you see us getting ready to just glue up the parts for the
carcass of the cabinet so we've got the same glue joint machined into the edge of these boards that
we use on our exterior doors and then we're using Titebond three which is basically the
strongest glue that you can use for solid wood it's actually rated for exterior environments
as well so it may be a little overkill but we just want things to be as strong as possible
today we're here actually we're going to be cutting a maple leaf into the
top of a liquor cabinet serving tray section it's
our latest custom maple cabinet that we're doing for a client here today
so after we got the resin poured and everything cleaned up and sanded we actually went ahead
and applied a black Osmo stain on here so it is still an oil-based stain and you can see
we're being kind of careful not to get it on the resin nice thing about this if you do get
it on the resin most of its going to wipe off and the specific product that we're using has
protection and color and a single coat so it's not like we have to do a coat of color and then
a different product for protection it's just two coats of the same product and it's done
and we will put a link down in the description for this stain if you guys want check it out
for the front of the cabinet Our client picked these two live-edge walnut slabs and some of
our Black Forest D presents so that's what we're using for this pour and then we just pigmented it
with some metallic pigments so with our resin we can pour up to two inches thick with no problems
and then if you go any thicker than that we recommend cooling it and we do have a video
coming up soon kind of explaining all of our cooling processes so we've got to use our sort
of automatic dub Taylor here to actually cut the joinery for the drawers now a lot of people will
say this is cheating which I guess if you're saying that's the only right way to do it is
cutting the dovetails by hand and I guess it is cheating but when it comes to a production
setting in a manufacturing shop we do have to have some kind of repeatability and efficiency
so that's what we got this machine for there is a bit that is kind of trapped underneath I
think it's absurd though it's right up here can't really see it but it's the shape of a dovetail and
you can actually put your pieces in here you guys will get to see this and this bit comes
along and cuts the exact spacing in both pieces and they fit together perfectly up so it's it's
a step up above regular just tongue and groove drawer construction and get a nice little touch
then here you see all of the drawer components and we're staining those with the same product
but we're actually doing it prior to assembly of the drawers it's a lot easier this way and
then also as the wood expands it contracts it's not going to expose any unfinished sections so
here we are assembling all of the carcass components of the cabinet so that's what
you saw us gluing up earlier and we also put the same stain on these so we have the two
long gables and then are shorter rails that go in between and one thing you'll
kind of notice here as well is that there's actually no glue being used for this we're
just we got really really tight joinery as you can see us struggling to get these in
and then we actually flip the cabinet over and we shoot screws in the side of those shelves
and rails and then we plug them up with a dowel afterwards so the advantage to this
over glue is that it's a lot stronger because it actually pulls all of the joints square and
tight whereas glue might not pull everything as throughs if you're to put a screw in there
so another kind of custom feature that our client wanted in this cabinet was a bottle
stand with this LED strip underneath it to light up all the the bottles so we built this out of
Baltic birch plywood for the sides and then we did solid maple kind of fronts on there so we
left a little reveal underneath that you'll see in a second where we laid in all of the
LED strips and then the client actually just gets a remote where you can turn everything on
and off then we head over to the panel saw and we actually start cutting up all of the
different drawer and door components so this has to be very very precise if we want everything to
line up perfectly we basically only have one cut to make on these so it has to be perfect
and then we use a jig with a router to actually machine out the the hinge gain for the hinges
and we're using sauce hinges here so quite a bit different than your standard hinges there
they're very expensive but they're very high quality hinges well really smooth movement
and they can open up a full 180 degrees which you guys will kind of see at the end of this
so we just think it's kind of a nice step up over your traditional european-style hinges
and then here we're putting on our standard oil-based finish that we put on so we use
the Osmo Pollock's for those of you that don't know it's a hard wax-based
finish so it's oil and wax base and the oils kind of soak into the pores of the
wood to give it that really rich look that you see now and the waxes form this thin
hard protective coating to protect against wear and then also against moisture stains
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this is like the master if you have more than one zone okay right now is our liquor cabinet for the
client in Ontario we got it all finished this is a very very custom cabinet picked a lot of
details kind of specifically on this so it's got locking doors as per his request and we
opened it up there's also LED strips under here we don't have them turned on right now
but there's all LEDs going underneath we got a mirror in the back so you can see himself
we've also got a slide-out drink mixing tray that pulls right out for a client two mixes
drinks on and then there's a little brass pin at the back for him to lock that tray in place
this is where he's going to keep more liquor down here so that's why there's so much space
in between these two drawers this one is just gonna have kind of all bottles lined up in here
and this one I guess so put whatever he wants in there and we got it branded is filed down
in the bottom corner but this thing turned out really really good so unfortunately we do not
have the cabinet here to give you guys another look at it because it has been shipped away to
our client so we're gonna put a few pictures up here right now so you guys can get a look
at it we've heard from the client as well he was very very pleased with it he said that the
drawer slides are working really good he's got them fully stocked with liquor and they
can hold all that weight so that's definitely a good sign there's even a few photos up and
mixing up some cocktails on there so huge thank you to our client for trusting us to
build this room we had a lot of fun and if you guys liked this project it really means a lot
to us to leave a like on the video and we plan on doing more videos like this in the future