let's go around here I've never built a kitchen before and now with a bit of luck and your advice
I'm going to build this kitchen here this was kindly designed by one of my subscribers Mark
Williams Mark Williams joinery design if you're in Australia or maybe New Zealand because he's
doing it for me and I live in New Zealand but in this exciting episode we are building the
kitchen and the double garage behind me that raises some challenges we try and overcome
them and we start building cabinets in a way that I think is very approachable very simple
try not to over complicate this kitchen because I never built one before
so we have renovated this room and now we are going to plop a kitchen in the end of it this
kitchen will be made up of white carcass grade plywood or the cabinets will all the plywood
you see will be the morante plywood on the outside that's to give you an idea of what
the kitchen's eventually going to look like but in the meantime let's cut some plywood [Music]
Ray is here to laugh at me today hey how are you welcome back back at the brownies
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you're going to get a sore neck built in this kitchen rammus what do you mean
don't you go to the bottom part no you you're like three mil above your above your material
I always go to that part so the I don't even know what that's called the circle the bottom of the
blade oh yeah I feel like 18 would be about there in an extreme right if you push it all
the way up then the the blade comes down on an angle at your material that you don't want right
because then then it really starts hacking and you want to be as as sort of smooth as possible
so I always understood that two three mil above the material is ideal and this is the assistant
but that's 20 years ago when I last checked it so maybe there's a science caught up yeah yeah yeah
all right let's do it let's cut oh [ __ ] you're filming all right
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yeah I think we uh I think we've got a pretty good cut right I mean it started down here
that is about as good as it gets oh yeah a little bit of chipping a little bit of tubing but barely
noticeable and then it was down this end that it started going a bit funkier at the very end
in particular yeah and that is pretty much just down to our movement what we think but
then look at the other side this it's uh this much better it's like a factory Edge on the other side
that is I you know I wouldn't expect that because obviously the blade is spinning and
pushing against that laminate underneath but I guess because it's hard on this cast iron table
it keeps keeps it from chipping I don't know but it's working out well like now I would be
happily taking the shortcut right but with the spinning blade you know you're trying to [Music]
do you think it's because it's got It's like that at the end because that's lower than the
table saw and in most of the way it's sitting on the bench on the table saw and then at the
end it's all the weights at that end and it lifts up we're figuring it out [Music]
what do you think Ray we've got some um empirical knowledge here yeah like field field research yeah
okay let's do this let's do this so this is with the blade sticking out above the material what
three mil was this the original cut so we did yeah that was the first one and then we raised
the blade and now we have this result which is much near perfect so this is the near perfect
cut with the teeth just above the laminate yeah yeah I I think it's the the angle the
way that the angle of the teeth as they're coming up emerge from the material wow what a difference
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drawings and now we don't have to think about that right that's a big load off but one thing that
we haven't got yet is the Cutlass so we're just making it up as we go so we're basically listing
all the stuff that we need to cut and then we're chucking it over to the Cutlass Optimizer website
so you Chuck it into the columns on the left here and you click calculate and it will do
this this is what we were following this morning when we cut all those sheets up for the side
panels but Mark's sorting out the Cutlass for everything else we just couldn't wait
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plywood before [Music] look at that did tight so what happened is that
the blade stops spinning because it was just pinched yeah let me treat so the sheet was
essentially grabbing the back of the blade so it's called Brown what's the solution
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cheers she is
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this is where the kitchen's going got the oven Tower behind me up here this will be the stove
with the drawers underneath it and then around the corner we've got this corner unit that I'll
show you the sink will be here and over here will be the fridge in the pantry so now that
I've cut a whole bunch of Timber believe it or not I've pretty much cut up most of the kitchen
most of the Cabinetry anyway so let's start screwing it together
so you would have noticed that I labeled everything and the different colored
masking tape is also a color coding of source that yellow one there is all the sides of the
cabinets that go under the bench because all those sides are the same height and depth and
then everything else for those same bench cabinets has the purple and then the green
is the stuff close to the pantry and so on but I also need some rails so let's rip some rails
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it's okay
now I've watched so many YouTube videos woodworking videos about
building cabinets and US heaps of advice from people who are very good at building cabinets
and I ultimately came to a conclusion that I'm Gonna Keep it very simple there's no rebates
no fancy joins we're just butting things together
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are laminated sheets so it wouldn't even work anywhere we're just going to pin it
pin it like so
same with the other side
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so the back is 16 mil
and it might be controversial that I'm just fixing it onto the back like this but
I think it's strong enough these things are going to be sitting on feet you know
boom look how solid it is just with pins
whoa so yeah that's how I'm building them
but obviously I'm going to add some screws now and it's going to be even stronger
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so that's how I'm doing the cabinets exposed plywood Edge I consider doing Edge banding I
looked into all these different ways of finishing it ultimately the front
is going to be a Timber look moranti that stuff over there that stuff right there
so it's quite a nice warm Timber and then I figured if I Edge banded this with white
in between the gaps of the drawer fronts and door fronts you're going to see white rather
than Timber and I thought well I'll just try to get a Timber Edge banding then ultimately I
decided plywood is Timber so I think seeing that color in between the gaps of the drawer fronts
and door fronts would be quite alright and just doing that little bit of sanding and router in
the corners has made it super smooth put a bit of polyox oil in there I think it's going to be great
so this is ready for the drawers and everything now and uh hey man I've got more of these cabinets
to build so I'm going to do that right now I might see you in the next exciting episode
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