ready let's do it
thank you very much bow tie coffee there
here in eliza we bought our plywood from the same place i'm making laundry he made a coffee slide
you know one thing i wanted to do was go over some of the things that i wish i knew
before i started this cabinetry i've learned quite a lot i don't just mean
like the mistakes i've made already kind of made a video about that more the little
things that help me do a better job and things that i'll take with me when i try this again
one thing i've learned the hard way is the laminate this plywood has a laminate veneer
on the surface of it on both sides and what that means is when you go to glue it with wood glue
it doesn't really glue so you have to kind of come up with a way to
get timber to timber touching now next time i do this i'll probably buy some laminate glue there's
laminate specific glue but i don't have that glue yet so here's my solution
this is a cheap biscuit jointer that i bought years ago when i made this other tv cabinet before
the channel like we've gone back ages and you literally just glue biscuits into each surface and
then the glue that's around the biscuit does the holding i'm gonna try and make it work for this
face bit here that goes on this open shelf it's a little things like this though little tips like
this that i've learned the hard way and learnt from the comments section so thank you very much
no i don't know why i took that face off i haven't even marked it all right let's mark it up
let's go a bit higher
i think it's gonna work
okay so this is because i can't put screws in i can't put nails in
any fixings i put in from this side you're gonna see right
yes
silicone's grabbing the bottom now originally that was going to be a draw down there but
when i put the draw rails on that top shelf thing it didn't really feel strong enough to
load up and that's a big space down there so that would have been a big heavy draw so rather than a
draw we scrapped it and turned it into this open shelf now a tool that i wish i knew about sooner
that has been really good for this job is this here someone mentioned it in one of my previous
videos what it is is a centering drill bit see that you pull the sleeve back and then a little
bit of a drill bit comes out and the sleeve keeps that drill bit in the center of your screw hole
honestly it doesn't seem like much um i was hanging a door in an old episode and somebody
in the comments mentioned this and says scott you need to get one and i'm glad i got one it's made
these kitchen hinges so much easier don't hit your head scott so that gives me a nice center
point exactly where it needs to be because if you don't screw it in the center of the hole
it can easily it can easily pull the hinge out of place
now it's um pretty slow going using a track saw to build cabinetry like this
but um at the same time is an awesome tool to use for this you get nice clean factory
edges even with this laminate sheeting now one thing that sped up the process a little bit
is this people been asking me about this this is basically a rail square a guide rail square these
little brass things here slide into the track and then this thing clamps on tighten that up
and there you go they're attached and the great thing about that is that is now square so all i
have to do is go like this line it up with one mark and that's ready to cut
it's essentially just cutting on repeat i'm cutting so many of the same size
and all the cuts are square and that makes it a lot easier
got him i forgot to put silicon on the bottom
oh now um if you're gonna try and do cabinets like i have done with the tracks or
i would highly recommend these clamps and i've talked about these in a
previous video they're handy little clamps that go into the track and prevent the track from slipping
the rubber strips on the track will do that and i don't always use them even when i'm doing this
but if i know that this is my only chance at a cut like when i was doing the bench top for example
or if it's or if it's quite a fine cut you know if it's only like two or three mil
that i'm shaving off then i'll throw these on highly recommended highly recommended
so these kickboards i'm just um silicon silicone in the bottom they come with these clips but i was
advised by a cabinet maker um shout out to keith the cabinet maker i was advised that using the
clips is just a pain throw the clips away sneak a screw at the top where you can't see it and
i've silicon the bottom so that should be sweet now i can't do that at the top now i can't do
that at the top the top i'm going to put similar boards to finish this cabinet off but a fixing has
nowhere to hide up there obviously i could sneak a screw underneath and then put a sticker on it
and i might do that but i've got another idea that involves that biscuit joiner again
now i'm gonna put these little blocks in here right
and they're made to be flush with the the carcass of the cabinetry it doesn't block the view doesn't
that's flush and this is where the biscuit jointer comes in so if you were doing a laundry or kitchen
or something with regular plywood that wasn't laminated like this you probably get away with
a lot of this stuff because you could glue to the back of it but because there's a laminate on it
we have to take these extra steps but of course the plus side of the laminate
is that it's pre-painted so that's that's like a finished product there right
by the way lockdown scott brown continues i'm still on my line soon still in level
three here in new zealand here in auckland rather no end in sight got a haircut though
this is the handiwork of jess uh home haircut we bought clippers uh last year when we went in the
first level four did one haircut and when we bought the clippers we were like oh yeah sweet
we're going to save heaps of money we're going to jess is going to do the haircuts all the time
but then as soon as we went to level 2 we're like nah let's get it let's get a barber to do the job
but who knows how long this lockdown is going to go so haircut number two what do you think
so
so so
last thing i wanted to do was paint the door hit my architrave here
because we needed this hatch for the staircase and when the staircase comes down
voila so that's working out pretty well despite some of these things that i picked up i'm not
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so what do you think guys job done i'm back to building now and i must say i'm very relieved
to have my tool belt back on this is great and everything but yeah i'm used to being a
renovating builder but having said that i really did enjoy doing this trying to
be a cabinet maker for a while it gave me more respect for cabinet makers than i already had
it's not easy um there's a lot of places you can be tripped up and i found it particularly
challenging with this laminate plywood because you're you're working with a finished product so
every cut you do every sand every routering all of those things you have to protect the surface you
know when you're working with regular timber you know you're going to paint or varnish it
so you know it's a bit more forgiving so that was a bit of a challenge i've got push to open
doors up there and as the name suggests you push the thing and the latch inside springs the door
open and i'm waiting for a few more of those latches for these doors and those doors down
there as well and i have added oil i didn't film myself doing this but i've added oil to the edges
of the plywood to help seal them and i used and i used this one here osmo polyox oil and yeah that's
how i sealed the edges and it was particularly crucial for here on the bench itself oh
countertop depending where you live and my little push to open shelf as well i've made it full width
so whether you're loading the washer or the dryer you just slide the thing along and nice and easy
and the machines too the dryer is a it's quite interesting the dry is a heat pump dryer
what that means is instead of hot air venting out the top it turns into liquid
all the moisture from your clothes goes into this tray that you then empty but then you also
have the option to plumb that directly which is what the plumber has done when the plumber came
he hooked both the washer and dryer that's kind of weird right the dryer plumbed into the waste
that goes under the sink there hot and cold water hey they got a kitchen in the garage now
and my attic stair that i built you can still get to it
so like i said i'm back to building now i've just built some shelves in the cupboard there
and done some skirting and architraves and all the rest of it
and um yeah i've got more to do yet so we go like i said back to building
but not too bad for a builder with a track saw right sorry i changed my mind actually okay
i guess you are going for that um early 90s ball cutting honestly so i just want to leave