Hi I'm Craig Phillips and in this video I'm going to show you how to build your own wall
cabinet using reclaimed pallet wood and the tools you're gonna require is a router, drills,
screws, jigsaw, tape measure, glue, set square, drill bits and a chop saw if you don't have
a chop saw, a hand saw can be used. Now my wall cabinet I'm going to build is
going be 600 millimeters wide just 500 millimeters high so again with the standard length of
pallet slat usually about 1200 millimeters you can get two out of one cut. Okay so that's
6 pieces of course now at 600 millimeters I just place these flat on the bench at the
moment. This is going to form the back of the cabinet
now what I want to do is measure my gap along here which is working out about 460 millimeters
I'm going to cut two pieces for the side and then I'm going to cut two more bits which
will go a little bit longer than that so they can be mounted in to these sides here.
You can start to see we're creating a kind of a frame around the back of that what I'm
going to do now is fix these corners together to get that nice and square and then we can
turn it over and we can fix them in from the sides to hold it back into position. I'm going
to start off I'm drilling a couple of pallet holes in here see and same again the opposite
side. Applying some glue, applying some to one end.
Once you get one in you can square that corner up. Pallet holes are ideal stopping
the wood splitting because we're drilling very close to the end of the timber, straightaway
now we've got ourselves a nice little corner we do the same on the adjacent three corners.
You might find it a little bit tricky on your own here having to hold these in two and pull
them together when you screw them. So I'm going to get a large clamp.
Okay so now when we release this clamp, we hopefully should have a kind of a frame like
this which is going to be one section of it and then we're going to create another one
exactly the same which will mount on to this the first of all we can fix these into position
by drilling a line of pallet holes all the way down this side and screwing in to the
center of these slats. Okay so the whole back section now of the wall cabinet is constructed.
What I need to do now is cut the same size pieces as my sides here and here to mount
onto the top. Okay so that's another layer of sides and for the left and right side and
one for the top and the bottom. Now how I'm going to fix this is because we don't want
to batten on the inside nor on the outside to be seen we're going to sandwich these together
by doing a thing called a dowel joint so we've got these little four 6 millimeter wooden
dowels already pre-cut and we want to drill three holes in here and three holes in that
side the exact same place. So when that's glued, mounted and clamped
together we're going to get a nice smooth joint on there and how we do is we get the
one side of it, we get a couple of nails to start with and we hammer the nail in halfway
between the wood here and here. Keep it nice nice and square if we can, we can do another
one here or less in the center. We're going to use three dowels on this particularly piece
of wood and then if we get ourselves a little bit
of snips and we snip the head off the nail so it's sharp like the pointed area that we
hammered in . There we go, now what we do is we place this
on top of the piece we want to get a fixed to making sure of course it's flush on this
edge it's flush on this edge and it's also flush on the front and back so now when we
pull that away we should have three holes in here. I'll just put a little pencil mark
on them so we don't lose, they're really small and of course we've got the three holes in
here. So now what we do we take these nails out
and we need to drill a 6 millimeter hole to match the size of the dowel; three in this
piece of timber and three in that piece of timber. You only have to drill in there probably
about 15 millimeters deep because these dowels are about 30 millimeters like that.
But we'll put a little bit of glue on them when we fix them together. Okay so now we
get our glue. Put a little bit of glue in each of the holes squash the dowels right
down, same again on here, gentle tap down add a little bit more glue along the bottom
piece. And now hopefully we should be able to line those three up and there we have perfect
dowel drill. Of course you do that on your the other three
sides as well. Okay so that's now the second layer around here what I'm going to do is
just drill a clearance hole in here, a pallet hole in and screw it in on all four corners
just to give it a double strength. Okay so now we've got a cabinet starting to
take its shape what you've got to think about now is where about we're going to have a partition
in here and then maybe a shelf along there. I'll start by just measuring my inside edge
for the upright 460 millimeters
that's a nice, snug fit so this one is going to be mounted onto here using the same method
a dowel joint between here and then we can screw them in the top. But as you can see
this is now standing up high and the thickness of the laths below.
So we make ourselves a little mark on here and we make ourselves mark along here. We
join them lines up
using the edge of one piece of wood we can draw the lines across there that's the bit
that we need to cut off. Okay so now we have our partition in here this can be a source
whichever way you please now the size that I've chose here I'm just going to put one
shelf in it there but of course if you made it larger you can put in a number of shelves.
So like with the center partition simply measure off 318 millimeters and cut two pieces to
length. So the position I'm going to put this one
you just round about here just to the third slat up I think trusting that that's level
on there got a line there and make a line underneath. You and remove him and drill some
holes in between your line; that way they're going to come through the other side and that
will give me the exact position where I want to drive the screws in to hold this shelf
in place. Start to screw off. Okay so that's our shelf
height of course we cut this down the same size. All we need to do now is measure the
bit that we cut off the front. Along here and off the top draw a line down here now
and simply cut that off. Now that's the wall cabinet structure all made.
We've got all four sides we've got the back in position we've got our partition here and
we've got our shelf before I make a nice little trim to finish off around the top of that
I'm just going to give it a sanding down. Now the wall unit is sanded I've also fitted
this skirt along the bottom, this was a standard piece of pallet slat, we’ve routed the edge
along it to give it that nice bullnose edge. We've also mitred the two corners to continue
it around the sides I'm going to do the exact same on the top so I'm just going to hold
this into position at the moment. I want to leave enough overhang to continue
around the sides so if I make a mark here and I cut that on that on the mitre saw at
45-degree angle when I turn that round the both corners should meet together and marrying
around the corner. So now we've got our 45-degree cut on there
this is going to be fixed at the top and this off-court that was originally there cut that
way run around well actually marry into that corner for me but before I glue and screw
these on what I want to do is create a little bit of a pattern along the edge of there.
You can cut these up then using this jigsaw because this is only quite a narrow piece
to hold it in position while I do the jigsaw and then I also want to router and I said
Johnny I'm going to actually fix it down to my workbench here.
I'm going to drill some clearance holes and these clearance holes will also be used when
I screw it into the top of this. Okay so that's two little arches now cut into there with
the jigsaw. I'm going to get the router and route a nice little beveled edge all the way
along there. So that's the wall cabinet now complete we
fitted the facia along the top routed all the edges. We mated the two corners and then
we fix it by screwing through the holes where we drilled it into the bench to hold it into
position earlier. And of course with all the pallet projects
you can varnish, stain it all up but remember it's a wall unit it will be mounted to the
wall so make sure you use the right fixings. And if you want to see more pallet projects
please visit the website silverlinetools.com