you know what i you know what i like about cabinet making two things
it forces you to come up with ways to cut something that can be easily ruined
and the second thing is you have to come up with ways to fix something that you can't patch
as in you have to screw something together without filling screw holes
i mean i've only been doing it for two days so you know take that with a grain of salt
so i've got to make another cabinet the same size as this one this one uh because it's got the sink
in it it doesn't have a middle partition which uh i want a middle partition it'll be stronger
that way but there's another cabinet the same size as that one right next to it where i
can put a middle partition so if you look at this one these go to the top of the rails so
this middle partition has to go to the top of the rails as well which means we need to do a checkout
well that worked pretty successfully the router bit that i use is kind of five mil
wide cylinder um if there's a better one for cutting please comment below i'd love to know
i've seen ones that look more like a drill bit
there we go
yeah i'm taking extra effort to uh not trip up any of these edges and get clean cuts
on the front because this is all going to be seen we're doing exposed plywood edges
let's try and finish these edges there let's see how it goes
see there it is there
the issue is it's going to show when you look at it like that you know that's going to be
a dark gray and then you're going to have this light blonde wood color and style it back a bit
all right well i hope you can see that i'm really happy with that
dialing it back a bit gives it a nice soft edge
feels way better and it's not showing too much of the timber when you look at it from this angle
so i think what we have here is a win-win let's do it on all the cabinets
i'm gonna do one experimental thing that experimental thing
has to do with these holes there's heaps of these gaps in the edge of the plywood
some are worse than others and some aren't so bad either way we need to fill them
this is one of the oldest tricks in the book use the sawdust
and use the glue
i'm getting the sorter straight from the vacuum
it's not perfect because there's probably a bit of white in there as well but it'll be fine
sometimes i like to think that the builder was doing this one day
and that's how they came up with mdf who knows so you want to sort of bog consistency like that
all right this glue and sawdust has dried up nicely
yeah i'm stoked it came out really good
i mean this is everywhere it's looking like this
milwaukee sent me some laser levels far more than i need um this one is a usb
now this one is probably the one i'm going to use this one's the 12 volt yeah they're
kind enough to give me these let's uh see if this will help us get a level line on the wall
all right well it's locked like that
that's level man let's get a mark
i love when they include this in a tripod little windy handle so you can bring it up
to your mark you set the level on the tripod like close enough and then slowly bring it
up to your mark and this will illustrate why you don't actually need a laser level
i'm getting my level out anyway to put a straight line but if you're working professionally
you want anything that will make your job quicker
so
now as is to be expected this concrete floor is
a wonky it's kind of dipping down that way towards where i don't even remember but the wall used to
come out here i built this new wall here and going this way it seems to be actually falling this way
yeah so it's falling this way in that way but it doesn't matter because we've got adjustable legs
on the cabinets so that's it type so unscrew it a couple of times i've done that with all of them
yep and now i've got a bit of movement see how we go
pretty close on this side then as you go over to this corner
oh we've dropped down a heck of a lot oh yeah i had to beat that
so this is the hpl hpr is what we're using for the doors high pressure laminate is what
it stands for and already with this one cut that i've done i can tell that it is a much
better quality so no filling necessary on this one just give it a quick sand
all right i just found a use for two levels a justification for having two
levels need a line here but i also need that horizontal line that i was using over there
here we go all right so i need to move that over a little bit now i should have used the bigger
milwaukee for this line because it has this micro adjusting function see this here you go like that
and it pivots so that lets you adjust your line without having to pick the level up and
shuffle it around so it'll be good for this line but hey i've already got it set up
i must have got this wall straight because both of those blocks with the exact same thickness
you got to give yourself pets on the back when you're doing stuff that you don't know how to do
now before i jump up and do those top cabinets
i've got to strengthen this up here because if you notice there's no middle partition on this cabinet
you know like that one and like i said earlier that's because of the sink
sink's gonna go there i need all the space for the sink so i'm gonna do something else to beef it up
those blocks up there are all dead flat
and plum so when i put the cabinets up there i'm just pushing hard against something that's
absolutely perfect the wall is really straight but um plasterboard you know things move in and
out now i'm going to set this level up this is the big bad 12-volt level i'm going to set it up
so it can cast a line and do the horizontal i've just got to put it in a correct position
all right we've got the horizontal good vertical not so good turn that
and it moves it moves the laser right or left apparently a lot of the uh a lot of
the lasers are selling there now it's a good function this isn't good for my eyes
now in an effort to do this on my own i have some assistance
this is uh highly experimental i don't know if it's gonna work
that shouldn't be a reason not to try all right
uh
so solid
a little while since i've done something like that i was holding the battery like that and
drilling like that and then it got caught and boom slam my hand between the battery and the
cabinet be careful with high power drills especially when you're doing a hole saws
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