Building upper kitchen cabinet - amateur woodworking

[@WonderingShadow]

I bet this project will be a great looking addition once the varnish is applied and dried! Great work as always John!

[@danboyles1388]

Glad to see I am not the only blacksmith working on kitchen cabinets this week. My brother and I Refaced my mothers kitchen cabinets and built new doors and drawer fronts. Finally updating them from the 70's style that they were built in in the 80's.

[@bigredbeard65]

Nice, simple project. I think it's looking good.

[@johnkelly7264]

Amateur woodworker... HAH!. Really a master craftsman in disguise. Very nice result. As Cypherian said, some blacksmithed decoration would look good, akin to Doc's hotshop and forge and his rice storage box project..

[@kegcoffeetable]

A skillful and patient guy like you is what I like . Thanks for the good videos.

[@Brian-bn3qp]

Hi John. I know you've forged drawknives and some other wood working tools. I was wondering if you have ever forged a set of woodcarving gouges and chisels? Perhaps a future blacksmith project, that you could then use for a wood working project for this channel? Thanks for your wonderful videos.

[@JohnSwitzer]

I have made some chisels and gouges. But not a full set of carving tools

[@eclecticneophyte2581]

I had a nice old Craftsman table saw that I sold for the same reason (lack of portability), then years later turned around and purchased a Kobalt table saw with folding support legs that can be wheeled around (like a hand truck or dolly). But before doing that, I built a nice table saw using my Dad's old worm drive saw mounted to the back of a couple of sections of melamine shelf material. It still works great. If you take the time to make certain you get the saw square with the table, you can also build an adjustable rip fence that uses the side of the table as a guide. Any decent portable circular saw will work, and if you reinforce the underside of the table, it can rest on sawhorses or any other support... Nice shelf project John, well executed. I built similar ones to keep the tones of old video cassettes and DVDs my wife purchased over the last 30 years.

[@danbreyfogle8486]

If I had not known you were "out west" prior to watching the start of this video I would have known it the minute I saw the Douglas fir board. Here in Iowa fir is as scarce as hens teeth. When I started woodworking back in the middle 1960's nearly every piece of framing material was fir as was most one by boards. Now if we want to obtain it we must go to a hardwood supplier. Great looking project.

[@jimhumphrey]

I would say amateur doesn't mean that you're not good at woodworking. I'm a big fan of using native wood for home projects. That makes your douglas fir shelves worthwhile in my opinion.

[@Zogg1281]

Those units look great and your bow-ties/butterflies are brilliant including the instructions!! Have a look at the superglue and masking tape trick, it will stick a bow-tie to the work piece securely enough to be able to score around the edges with knife and then it's easy enough to remove the bow-tie before chiselling the wood out to fit and glue the bow-tie. I think you might be under rating your carpentry skill a bit👍

[@82finesa]

Hi John on the end grain cuts you might try putting psinters tape on it before cutting. Just and idea

[@sunqwest1]

Nice. Really don't mind being " instructed" enjoyed and thanks for sharing.

[@mountainwolf1]

Wow John do you do a little bit of everything? That's how i am always learning something new i like crafting with my hands. I've been working with my hands since i was 14.

[@erniebeswick7675]

Great to a part of your adventure . Enjoyed the watch very much. Did not know that you could fix a crack like that.thanks for the info

[@JohnSwitzer]

You see butterfly patches in old tables sometimes.

[@jeffgrier8488]

Your woodworking looks pretty darn good to me, John! Douglas fir is tough stuff, but looks really nice. It makes great construction lumber.

[@douglasfathers4848]

Amateur ha, John if you think your a amateur I have no hope . I like working with wood like the walls of my workshop and a few shelves but watching you well you're the chef and i'm just the Indian. ps like the name of the wood cheers.

[@johncatt1867]

I would have to say, that this would be the perfect spot for some custom made cup HOOKS (Hint Hint for Hook of the Week).

[@miltonknowlestheinsanewitc4996]

Excellent video hope you're doing well and I enjoyed what I watched but I was a little distracted by my own woodworking project humorlessly

[@frankgaletzka8477]

Hello John Well Done i like what you do and you are not a Amateur in woodworking I do woodworking by myself my grandfather and my father were in german called Stellmacher they build woodwheels and Waggons and them Windows and Front Doors and wood fences and all these stuff I have the complete shop of my grandfather its still there like a Museum Bur nie i have the time to do something with it Stay save Yours Frank

[@budlloyd3127]

glue up I think is the most stressful part for me, but also the most satisfying haha

[@JohnSwitzer]

So true

[@cypherian9821]

Amateur or not you pulled off the crack repair as a pro. Nice job ! Will there be decorative / Smithed elements added to it later ?

[@JohnSwitzer]

If we later ad doors there might be some hardware. But at the moment it is just a woodworking project

[@robmorris7667]

John Look at a cabinet scraper as thats what its for opposing grain

[@paullester5814]

If you need filler use saw dust and glue the dust from same material you are using makes filler same color and hard to see

[@JohnSwitzer]

I have been known to do that

[@johnlockstein8617]

I like your workbench it is like the one I have it is my grandpa's wood work bench 3 inch wood vice screw to work the vice

[@NeilGraham.I.M.F]

Good job. I like it

[@donnarhill1932]

Hey John, for inlay - I took a couple of old small Allen keys and filed out pointed blades. I then harden them to use in my little router plane to get into those tight pointed spots. Also, I see you’re going to be at Handworks, hopefully all of this COVID stuff is better by then. Black Bear Forge and Camp Robber???

[@JohnSwitzer]

Great idea

[@unitwoodworking5403]

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