Today was another busy day.  I made the drawer fronts and routed them.  I then made adjustments to the drawers.  I was not happy with how they were sliding.  I planed some of the drawers with my grandpa’s hand plane.  I just got it super sharp this morning.

The wife stained all the door and drawer fronts and painted a few extra trim pieces.  While I built my first two sets of fine looking shelves.   Enjoy a photo montage.

Busy day at the homestead.  I finished up the pull out cabinet and mounted the drawer front on it.  It turned out pretty nice for being made out of plywood.  I am glad that I saved this one for last, since my drawer making skills have gotten much better.  The joints are tighter and the drawer was exactly the right size.

Next I cut down 8 aspen saplings for the wife to shave down for curtain rods.  While she worked on that I set up the new router table and router.  Lots of parts but man is that thing sweet.  Check out this simple but elegant drawer front prototype.

Test drawer front.

Tomorrow is going to be another busy one too with lots more progress.

Over the past two days I built and installed the cabinet doors for the kitchen cabinets.  The other drawers are going to either be false fronts or small tilt open containers.

This was the most technical thing I have done carpentry wise.  It worked out ok.  There is room for improvement but not bad for a first set of drawers.

Also.  The phone company installed the fiber optic lines today.  That means they are really on schedule to get it spliced and activated on the 29th.  I might just have the cabinets done in time to move in.  Pretty sweet.

Today was one of those days I like to call bonus days.  I go to work and get one thing done, today that was finishing the door hinges.  It goes so well that I get a whole other project done too.  The doors took me less than an hour so I started cutting up some 3/4″ plywood for shelves.

The guys who built the cabinet carcasses did a terrible job with the shelf peg holes so I just ripped some 1.5″ strips of plywood to hold the shelves and screwed them to the supports.  Simple and easy.  An no one unloads their shelves to adjust them.  EVER.  So they are fixed and that is fine.

I also had a double cabinet that was getting a shelf too.  Well I could not fit a full size shelf in from the front.  I really should have done that before I screwed them together.  Lesson learned.  So I made a multipart shelf at different levels and assembled it inside the carcass.  It looks great accept for one measurement that was off by a 1/4″ and allows the shelf support to be visible.

Now on to drawers.  That is going to be fun.  I love the tablesaw and its multiple spinning blades of death.

I have been nervous about this stage of the project for a while now.  I spent a lot of time making the cabinet doors and I was worried that they were not going to fit or I would make a mistake in the sizing or installing the hinges.  That was not the case.  I got the cups drilled and then installed the clips to the face frames on one of the big doors yesterday.

That went so well that I shot a silly video. I am sort of mocking the home improvement guys here.

After all that silliness was done we cooked a nice fish dinner on the grill and while that was cooking I mocked up a curtain rod for the curtains the wife is crocheting.  I finally got to use my drawknife and shaving horse that I made way back when.

Also big news here for those that read this far.  The power company has been out to mark the buried lines so the phone company can finally lay the fiber optics.  It is most exciting.