Hand Tool Cabinet Build Part 1. Making the Carcass.

oh it is cold okay hand tool cabinet build i wanted to warm up a little bit for so let's jump in what's happening everyone welcome back to the workshop now in this video we're going to start a hand tool cabinet build i'm going to build it from birch ploy we're going to keep it relatively easy so we'll be able to play with some hardwood accents i have my tools laid out on the table here so i have a rough idea of what how i'm going to build it i want to incorporate all these tables and i also want to leave space to add future tools that i want to get so we'll keep it relatively simple we're going to build the main characters out of a porch play like i said add some nice little hardware accents to it and it should be nice quick and easy now i'm going to film this as a series so it'll be a couple of videos simply because this nature of the world that we're in at the minute it's back in full lock down again when i'm watching this so if you're watching this video as i just uploaded it or whether it's six months or a year from now know that the design choices of this project are limited by what i can get my hands on with brexit after happening as well it's very hard to order stuff from the uk at the minute and being in full lockdown i'm limited as to what hardware and wood i can get my hands on so that's kind of dictated the design choice but needs most we shall soldier on and we should get this project started so we have some half inch board play and some three quarter board play that's going to build our main character so i'll give you a quick look at the plans i have i just roughly sketched out some plans and we shall jump in break down our sheets into the component parts it should be relatively simple let's jump in okay so very quickly i have just some rough plans that i just roughly sketched out here just to get some measurements so i get my cutting list and stuff so the main carcass will be this one here it'll have a plain tail sitting inside in it we'll have a number of boxes on the bottom that we're going to fit drawers in so we'll do some nice and hand cut joinery for the drawer so we'll make the drawers from hardwood to make them noise and we'll do some half blowing dovetails and things like that but for the main carcass like i said it's just going to be nice and simple nice piece of board ploy that will join together so we're going to put a plane to lift i'm going to have a nice open space here for adding future tools and we're going to have two doors and there are going to be box section they're going to be split down the middle so you'll have tools on this side and tables on the opposite side so they will sit on it and they will open out like a book and the fronts of the books will also open as well so we'll have tools on both sides we'll be able to open the front of the doors and we'll be able to actually open the doors themselves if that makes sense so i have it kind of laid out and just plan and kind of a 3d view here so again i just roughly sketched it out but i'll try and do up some plans on sketchup or something that i can make available to you guys later on but for now i'm just working from these rough drawings so let's just give you a quick idea of what we're going to try and achieve here so let's start breaking down our sheets okay guys so we have our first sheath this is three quarter inch borch ply now birch ply is a high quality plywood it's like a furniture grade ply and it's faced both sides so it's really nice now the grain pattern actually runs the full length of the board so that's the way i'm going to dimension it i'm going to cut the foot into the board i have kind of built this project to suit a 8.4 sheet or a 1.22 by 2.44 sheet so we should get most of the walls and tops and bottoms of the carcasses for the doors and for the main body out of one sheet of plywood it's kind of dimensioned that way but the reason i want to cut it straight down the board is like i say it's because this plywood is faced and the grain pattern runs down it it would be nice to have the grain run around the sides of the carcass so we could theoretically cut it this way it doesn't really matter with plywood because the grain from the layers runs in opposite directions anyway but because and board ploy is faced like i said and we keep the grain pattern nice so it has a quite nice grain pattern down the center of the board so how they achieve this actually is they roll the tree so imagine a like a log and they have a big blade on it and they peel it like unrolling a piece of paper like off a paper roll and that's how they get their top so it's actually the grain is actually rolled out and you can see a slice of the tree all across the top here so like i said we're going to cut our sheet down the length of the board and then dimension it up that way and that should have our grain run around the outside of our carcass it's only a small little detail if you're not going to use birch play you could use like wbp ploy it's a non-phased ploy and then you can dimension your boards up whatever way you choose but because like i said we have a nice green pattern we'll run the cuts down the length of the board and then division those ones up to go around the outside so let's get on it okay so we're set up to make the cuts we're going to rip all these boards down just with the track saw nice and easy now i want you to always remember when you're using a track saw tails however always allow for the curve of the blade so you're going to lose some of thickness in your material because of the width of that blade so it's a three millimeter curve on this saw so when i'm measuring in from my edge i want a 300 millimeter piece of um porch ploy so i'm going to allow 303 millimeters is going to be my measurement and that's what i'm going to cut out and that will allow for a car for my blade so it's always think about that when you're cutting with your sauce so we'll get ripping all this down now i'll get ahead and do this when it's all ripped down we'll jump back in now one other thing i should mention is always check your sheets of plywood don't assume that they're straight or square from the factory and sometimes they're not so i'm just checking this one here so i've set it up for 303 mil at this end at this end and it is 300 and mil in the center so the corners are actually in a small bit both ends so whatever way this was caught um it's about two mil in the difference either end so the corners are perfectly square so what we're going to do is we're going to put a truing cut on the edge of this first and then we will measure from our known straight cut into the dimension of the rest of our timber so that's just one thing to check never assume that just because plywood is dimensioned that it is exact because it's always worth checking especially for kind of building cabinets and furniture and stuff out of it [Music] sorry so all right guys there we go that's our first sheet ripped down so we have three pieces to make our doors and we have two pieces to make the main carcass so i'm going to cut the bottom and the side out of one of these and the top and the side of the other one just so the grain continues the whole way around and it kind of looks like it's matching now nobody's ever going to see it but we're going to deal with anyway just you know just as good practice so that's what i'm gonna do so i'm gonna take it to the miter saw now we're gonna be doing all moisture corners on these and then i might put in either motor splines or moisture keys into it or we might do some wall nut drills once we have it all glued up it has a lot of internal sections to go into this that we have to route in so that will help hold it all together as well and keep it straight and then like i said we will add keys or some dowels to these um monitored joints so on to the motor saw let's get this caught up okay guys many hours have passed um there's a chainsaw going behind me there now so if you hear that that's all that is chainsaw on the background someone's cutting a tree down but i've done a good bit of work i have all the panels all cut ready for the doors now a couple of little issues i checked for square on all my cuts and my cuts were slightly off square so when my um track saw this boss track saw is set to zero degrees it's not cutting exactly true so i had to adjust it i had to go back up and true up all my edges again and as well as that all my motors coming off my bosch um that large 12 inch saw were slightly off square as well there's a bit of blade deflection the thing about using a massive blade like that is that the blade can deflect and cutting a long motor in a wide board it's kind of risky on a moisture saw because you do get blade deflection and you can cut slightly off square even though your saw is set up perfectly so what i'm doing now is throwing up all my monitors on my mft table i have this set to 45 degrees and 45 degrees is exactly 45 degrees on the track saw so i have my fence set up here and i'm just trimming up all my motors and i'm getting really good square exact 45s off this so i'm just going i'm going along now chewing everything up so i've spent a couple of hours now after cutting everything truing it up which is a bit of a disaster but that's where i am so i'm going to crack on now and cut the rest of these and true them up and i'll go through that bosch saw in a later video and just show you the little discrepancies in it but that's where i'm at just want to let you know so let's get on and throw up the rest of [Music] these [Music] um [Music] okay guys so it is the following day um i have all the data was routed into the door sections now yesterday was a complete disaster i couldn't get my mother saw to work my tracks all let me down and my router let me down i got a lot of chatter on the bit and i ruined one of the dado so we have to address that i also still want to address some of my motors and i broke my lavalier mic so i had to stop recording so yesterday i just down tools walked out with a workshop and said today is a new day we'll start all over again today so hopefully today goes better and you know what i like to show you all the mistakes so now we have to address some mistakes i want to true up some of these monitors i'm still not happy with them some of them are perfect some of them i just checked again this morning and are not perfectly 45 but perfectly square so we're going to do that on the shooting board now so let's get that done and fingers crossed today goes a little bit better as yesterday was just one of those days where i couldn't seem to do anything right so like i say today's a new fresh start let's do it okay so i'm just fixing up some of the monitors like i was saying one of them so it is actually perfect so i've just marked that with a tick correct mark on any side that needs to be addressed i just marked with an x now i'm using my uh jig that i've made and i have a full video on making simple jigs like this this is just a shooting board with my 45 degree attachment so that just sits on it like that and we can true up these motors using the hand plane so we get nice good square motors that are perfectly farting for you so nice and simple keeping everything nice and square they're a little bit big for this jig but it's working so that should be that should do it okay so that's good now we're exactly 45 we've trued up these motors so now i have the rest of these to do i have about four or five more to do and with that done hopefully we get these doors assembled okay guys so there we go after the shooting board we have our monitors now are looking pretty nice and tight and exactly 90 degrees so that's exactly what i'm after nice tight motors so a little bit of a touch up on the shooting board and it's happy days so let's move on okay guys so there we go like i said the miters are all done now we want to cut the panel that's going to sit in the middle of our doors and that's kind of going to be a lesson to me and maybe a lesson that i can share with you guys as well is never assume that all your machines are exactly 90 and 45 there are stops on all the machines and over time with vibration and use things can get a little bit out of line and i just kind of came in and assumed that everything was perfect and went ahead and cut when everything wasn't perfect so i want to go back on all my machines now and reset all the stops and recheck it or make sure everything is 45 make sure everything is 90 and just tune up the machines it's important to do that every now and again and not just take it for granted like i did otherwise you waste a whole day uh truing everything back up and that you don't want that you want things nice and square and at 45s to be 45s and everything to be true coming off your machines so when you have to spend hours chewing everything up like i said so let's get the internal panels caught and hopefully we get these doors glued up okay guys we have the center sections now cut out that's made from 12 mil or half inch porch ploy i have my um door sections now arranged out they're all numbered they're all facing the right direction so we're going to assemble this so it's going to be a case of glue and then i'm going to put some 18 grit gauge brad nails top and bottom just to hold it together while the glue sets up and then we'll add probably some decorative devils to the sides where you'll see them you won't see the brad nails top and bottom they won't be visible so that doesn't really matter but i just want to get these carcasses assembled now and get the glue in so let's get on and do it so i have a just some black bag just cut open set on top of my um mft table just to keep the glue off it and it's going to be easy enough to stick this together i've already done a trail run on this which is a very important to do when you're doing a glue up so it's case off take the center section stick it in here put on the so it's on the top and we'll tack it top and bottom so let's get on enough talk [Music] [Music] okay guys there we go there's one of the doors finished now as you can see it's going to be a pretty big tool cabinet but we might use a little plenty of space so that we can grow into it and as i add tools i can put it in so we'll have tools hanging on this side there'll be a door that opens off this and then this whole thing will act like a door as well so we'll have tools in both sides of this and this will open off out of our main carcass that's the plan anyway so that's to get our nail our motors aren't looking too bad i have it just held together like i said with brad nails for now and the fact that our center section is glued in all the way around as well that will add strength to it and we might just add some decorative wall nut devils in the sections that we see top and bottom just to add a nice little decorative piece to it and when this is all sanded up it has a beautiful grain pattern on the outside so it should look pretty good so that's it nice and simple let's put them together i'm going to throw the other one together now and we'll crack on okay guys we are on to the main body of the carcass now things are going a little bit better for me today so we have the two doors all glued up and ready to go so they are more or less finished apart from building the doors on the front now i'm busy on the carcass so i've routed the dado into the carcass the same way as i did with the doors i didn't film too much of that because it's the same thing again but i put a 10 mil deep dado in this uh just so i can put a back piece in so we have a piece of 12 mil plywood here or half inch plywood porch ply and i kept the green pattern up and down again so that's the way i cut it so that's sitting in there just to hold this thing together so i can show you and we left a gap in the back so you can see this doesn't fall apart because it's actually not held together it's only stuck together now but i've left the gap here in the back so i'm going to put french cleats on the back of this because there's going to be a lot of weight in this tool cabinet it's quite big it's quite heavy so i'll make sure it's good and held to the wall so we want to catch it the whole way across it's back in two places in order to just get that data to the right depth i've just taken a piece of a three-quarter birch plate which is what i'm going to make the french cleats from stock that against my router fence put the router bin up against it and that gives you the exact depth that you need so we can put our french cleats then on the back of this and we can hang this off the wall so that's where we're at now we've got to look at the inside it is so we have a drawer to make from the bottom which would have loaded dividers or a shelf i should say with a bunch of dividers for our drawers so we have a lot of route to do in its bottom piece and the shelf so let's get on and do that okay guys we're all set up to throw out our dadoes for our dividers now the beauty of the mft table is i can set my track up 90 degrees to my workpiece so my work piece is against the fence i have my router slate that attaches to my track that just runs straight up and down i can slide my piece on cut the next dado slider on cut the next dado and it works the exact same way with your track saw set up set up a stop set up your fence and run cuts it takes a few minutes setting up the jigs that's a kind of slow power but won't start set up you just flow through work and it makes breaking down sheet goods so so easy so this is actually this project is a good shake down test for my mft table so this is an ongoing project i'm working on now as well so it's given me some ideas of what i need to change what i need to adapt how to lay it out how to lay out the dust extraction and how to lay out the power section as well electrics so yeah let's crack on now and start routing these dados [Applause] [Applause] okay so there we go guys there's all our uh dados done on our bottom piece for our inserts now we're gonna do the same with the shelf so i got and do that just repeat the exact same process again you can see how handy the mft table makes things putting multiple cuts and keeping everything nice and square it makes it super fast once you set up the jig so i like i said i rock on and now i will get the shelf don't have a little bit of clean up so they have a little bit of four on the edges but it's not going to be too bad a little get the chisel at that and that should clean them up nicely and like i say we'll do the shelf next let's do that okay guys all our dados are done so we have six in our shelf and six in our base now we need to cut the dividers so we've six of them to cut at 110 millimeters so our space is going to be 100 ml and it's gonna go five million to our top and five minute into the bottom and yeah so nice and handy stop set up here just line it up to the cut in your fence if you make your own sacrificial fence nice and easy and just run these on through with the tracks let's do it [Music] [Music] wow okay guys we have all our dividers cut up now we just need to notch the corners so the reason we're doing that is the dado is not going to carry out to the front of our cabinet so we don't want to see the dado so we're going to notch it back here so that the divider carries out flush with our edge and we hide the dado so we need to just take this with a bandsaw now not all the corners of these on the front so they're all marked and then we do the same with our shelf that's going into the sides of our cabinet so i'm going to go on now just notch all these on the bandsaw and then we get ready for a dry assembly let's do that okay so we're more or less ready to assemble i have all the launches cut out of the dividers now so they're sitting in nicely so they're flush with the front and you can't see the data that's the whole point of doing that so there's a certain order now this cabinet has to go together so i'm going to do a dry run first i'm going to assemble this before i do any glue up and uh yeah because you don't want to find out halfway through your glue up with that this thing is not going to go together so the order is going to have to go in i'm going to put the dividers into the base first then put the shelf on then i'm going to have to put the back piece in then the sides on and then the top that's how it should go together fingers crossed if everything is lining up so we'll find out whether it's going to go together or not in the dry run not when we're going to glue it up so let's get cracking on this okay guys i'm going to leave you guys set up there now because i'm on my own and it's hard to film stuff i can't try and get this assembled so i'll just kind of skip through this you guys have seen me putting in so first step we got to do is put in our dividers and i have them all numbered and we just want to check that they're sliding out to the front and that they're fitting now that one isn't so i have to come in here with a chisel and sort this out so little things like this it's good to find out and before you even attempt the glue up just didn't go far enough with the router that's all so we just got to check little things like this but it only takes a couple of seconds to clean it up go again and check that we are out to the front we are on that one let's keep going looking good so far let's get this shelf section on now they seem to be fitting nicely i have a little bit of a warp in this shelf so it's going to need to be pressed down so i might have to put a couple of screws in the top of this or something just to hold it down or else i put a weight on it on when it comes to the glue up you can see there's a bit of a spring in it but uh yeah it's not a big deal for now so let's keep going and hopefully this goes together right we need to get the back on next there's the back this is the section i want inside my cabinet yeah okay guys so i have it assembled just dry fit for now it's only just barely holding together um my longest clamp isn't actually long enough i need to put a bit of a squeeze on this so i can see how i need to put together now i'm gonna have to build my shell first make sure that this is all square that all my drawer sections are perfectly square let that set up let that glue up then glue the rest of the body together but i'm going to need a hand with this i think so i'll probably get on and do this when i get a hand to glue up this this will kind of be where we end part one so i'll show you the doors now up on this now just in one second so you can kind of get an idea what's gonna happen so on the next part we're going to you will see this it'll all be assembled and glued and we have to do the finish and stuff on it so we're going to build a plane till for the next part so it'll be a porch play back with one knot edging our edge banding and wall not dividers in it for our plane so you can see the number seven is sitting there now so you could fit a number eight in there um room for things like a plow plane and stuff on the top our router planes can sit up on top there uh nice big space here on the side so the saws can hang there or slightly bigger saws can go in there so the plane till will sit up to here it's going to come out to about here these are going to be all little drawers so i can keep all the parts for the router plane and they are all the parts for my play planes the various cutters and things will sit in the shelves you know let me get the doors up here and just give you a quick idea what this one look like okay guys there we go there's the doors in place now this is going how it's going to work so we're going to have nice light kind of decorative doors on the front of this that we can open up so the tools i suppose that i want to use most are leased i'm not sure whether i'm going to leave this fully open or fully closed for most of the time i might just lock it at nighttime so maybe the tools that i i need the least might go in the front but i'm thinking uh maybe chisels and marking equipment can go in here maybe stuff that i don't use that often can go over here or something like that i haven't really decided on the layout yet i'm just kind of getting the cabinet working so like i say two nice light doors that'll open out that way they'll lock back in and then we'll be able to open these ones out and they're gonna open out to the side like this we'll have tools there we'll open this one out to the side as well so it'll either be heavy duty butt hinges brass butt hinges or we're going to use some big uh piano hinges it depends what i can get it's kind of hard now the time being i'm building this everything is on lock down and it's kind of hard to get stuff but that will be it fully open so that will be my new backdrop for the channel so you'll see all my tables will be hanging up here so we'll have the plane till saws router plane uh things like that plow plane then we'll have all the chisels will be here and possibly then all the marking equipment so all the squares rulers marking gauges dividers all that kind of stuff can sit in there nicely and we'll build all nice little hardwood accents to go in this just to prove it up a bit because it is kind of a big lump of plywood at the end of the day even though it is birch playing it's kind of nice and it would be nice to get some hardwood uh little accents on this just to really kind of set it off and i'm going to put some lights in it as well so a couple of cabinet loads just to load everything up so that's kind of where we are now guys i think i'm going to leave it here for now that's a good meltdown for part one including all the disasters i had the first day so yeah we're going to leave it there for that i think that's a good progress mate okay guys so that's it that's it for part one we're gonna leave it there that's the first part of the hand tool cabinet build hopefully you're enjoying it hopefully you're getting something from it as always any questions any comments you have anything you should think i should do or shouldn't do be sure and let them in the comments below anything that you would like to build or that you would do with this project give me some ideas and leave them in the comments below as well because it's kind of a live build i'll be posting this as soon as i get in a workshop tonight now i get this up on youtube so it's going to kind of happen the same way as we did the leg voice so a bit of feedback from you guys and we can incorporate that into the project as well so yeah there you go don't forget to give it a thumbs up if you're new here hit the subscribe button in the next episode like i say it's going to be the plane till with some hardwood accents we have to clean this all up stand it all up get a finish on it we might get this up on the wall and then we'll see what way we're going to lay the tools out so that's all to come so we have a good bit to go on this including some electrics and some nice lighting effects to go into it as well so yeah that's all to come up in the next video guys it's getting late now it's time for some dinner so i'll see you next time guys take it easy

Channel: John McGrath

Views: 24,380

Keywords: Hand tools, Hand tool woodworking, woodwork, woodshop, wood design, wood art, wood craft, workshop, workbench, hand tools, hand made, hand built, carpentry, hand planes, stanley, Lie Nielsen, Veritas tools, maker, Ireland, Irish made

Id: APLNbs-ab1k

Length: 27min 33sec (1653 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 11 2021