How To Make Camper Overhead Lockers / Cupboards With 15mm Lightweight Plywood and T Trim

hello today at creation campus we are going to show you how to make an overhead cupboard so our plan here is we're having a cupboard here with two doors and then at the end we're gonna have a microwave so we're gonna start we've put our end panel in so this is gonna be our kitchen so we're gonna have a fridge here and a sink and stuff um so we're gonna go for nice flush doors in a cream gloss wood yeah so we've got a jig that we use and this helps us when we're routering out the holes so we're happy with the size of how long we want this so we're going to go now and knock up the sizes that we need so we've this is just our very old sort of rough but it's like all what we clamped to isn't it but also sacrificial pieces because when when you're routing the hole out it just allows all the dust to fall yeah it also starts damaging the bench yeah and then we only interface with this on certain parts so so this is our piece of wood that we are using to make the overheads front and to just oh it's a 290 wide 1175 millimeters wide we are doing this so this is our jig that we use to um to make our holes so our router follows this so we've got different size offsets from the top to the bottom and we have it a little bit bigger at the bottom to allow for the aluminium angle like we use at the corners so we have an extra 10 ml at the bottom and then by appearance the door looks like it's in the middle then doesn't say so we level this up and then because of the two pieces of wood on the back of this it stops the actual door panel from sliding and it keeps it locked in one position so when you are routering it's not jumping all over the place so we line it all up and then we clamp it so this is our template set now so this is up so now we are going to router out the doors and then we'll that allows us to use the middle piece for the actual door so there's no wastage on the panel so we've got our router sets of our six millimeter router bit flute bit flutes bits that's what it's called let's have a look it's in better days which still cause also we do it like this as well because if you've got a grain in the in the panel then you can basically match up all the grains and stuff like that so it gives quite a nice effect so for this job we have to put some fantastic safety gear on so now so we've got our guide we're going to call it what's it called um yeah this is our dedicated router just just for doing this job so now all i do is [Music] i'm gonna go over to this one [Music] drill and drill down the center [Music] because otherwise it's quite hard to get the router bit through because drills [Music] so so i don't know if you noticed when i was going around it came to around here but then we then we rotated back around to the same spot because sometimes you find there's a never such slightly offset on the guide so you see if you come back around then you're sometimes like a few millimeters out so it's always good to finish in the same position that you started and another thing what's always a good idea to do is mark which ones which so we'll go up obviously there's a mask on these and what should we say one you know open one there or should we say left so now this is the left and that one's the right so here i was just gonna go one two looks a bit more clear though left and right doesn't it so we can now take these out sand them up trim them and then there are doors so we're going to do now is we're going to sand all the edges make it perfect and then what we do when using t trim on the the side of the lip is just put a gentle very small sort of 45 degree edge on it just so when you're knocking your t-trim on it doesn't like chip any of your decorative coating on your wood [Music] [Applause] [Music] so we've put a very slight 45 degree angle there to help knock the t trim on so now what we'll do is we'll route it off put the groove in it and then we'll put our teacher on it's at the minute this is my favorite tool this is what we use to cut our um hole for our tea trim so we use a 1.5 mil slot cutter um you can get this if you're using t trim you can get these from the companies that you you get your tea trim off so our rouse bit stays set it does take a while to be able to get when you are doing it get some off cuts of wood and make sure you've got your slot cutter set at the right height so your trim goes on perfect and it's not overhanging but what i'd always recommend to do is do a test so i've got same piece of wood here always do test with the same piece of [Applause] [Music] [Applause] wood yeah happy with the router settings [Music] [Applause] [Music] ah so it's very important when you're routing to um make sure your router's flat and down because you don't want to put you know when you put your trim on if you've if you've messed up on your outfit and your trim won't follow it [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so [Music] [Music] and i always make sure the join of our trim is at the top of the door on it overhead because then um you can't really see the join line the way if it's at the bottom visually you can see it to always put your join at the top and then if you're doing a door for the bottom of the van you'd put your joint at the bottom the thing is when you're using gloss wood it doesn't clamp too well so now we need to do the join so we need to cut this so it'll be a nice perfect join so what i'm doing so i'll get some snips i'll sort of work out where it needs to be and i'll put a little mark on it and then i'll hammer this in here and go back there's a trim door so what i'll do is i'll just check the back obviously we've got the protection on but i'll just make sure it's hammered in all the way around and that there's no gaps and also feel with your fingers because you can feel if if it's not smooth we've got the same same principle here we've sanded it put a 45 degree little edge on we've routed it for the trim so now we know this is going to be the top of the cupboard so we put our lip at the bottom so we're not going to be putting these little bolts hinges hinges flush hinges so i always set them with the the p or the nine whatever whichever way you're looking at it and say that p there's a p about if you go to that side side anyway let's get our p's and nines the right way so we always set this so it's level with the bench you can see it's hitting the the lower of the bench there and with the the p or the nine sticking towards the other side [Music] the recap whilst with this position [Music] so we've got the the nine facing out the reason we've got it facing out is because when we land it and we can land this against our work so we've got we set it so the flat bottom of the door align the hinge over there also a little tip when you're doing this if you're working with wood and that has got a protective film on it peel the corner just because when you're trimming it obviously the trim goes over so if you just peel the cornet when you do come to remove all your protective film you can grab the corner you've already pre-peeled otherwise you're like you're picking at it and it's a bit of a pain so we basically clamps this piece onto the bench but i always like to leave a bit of bench sharing so when you when you drop through it doesn't go beyond so now while we're in this position we're going to put the catches in so for these particular doors so we've obviously done these doors with this this size door previously so we've already made a jig for the catch so the holes we caught are uh 30 34 i don't want a 34 by 50. so these are evo catchers that we're using so generally it's 15 millimeters from the outside right on the outside of the trim here it's 15 mil back then 50. and this is a 34 34. because we've got a lovely little jig so we've already worked our sensors and all that sort of stuff so we can just put it straight in the middle and draw around it so i was going to drill the corners [Applause] so just to test fit brilliant so before you screw these in just make sure they're sitting square because there's a little wiggle room in your hole and also don't over tighten them so then the other thing i'm going to do is put the catch on so they're quite simple all right so we've removed the mask off this area here that we don't want so now we're going to be putting the catch on so the catch has just got like a very small little ramp angle to it quite good these catches because you can use this end as well but we're not going to be using that on today so it's going to line up there a little sort of cut there cut there let me see the cut so that's the question just about this i'm going to be cutting longer so now that will now slide over there quite happily and i'm going to just quickly there's a bit of the trim off no okay close the bottom [Music] [Music] you need the ramp can you see that you need the ramp angle to um operate nicely when it catches so our cupboard cupboard is here so with our this angle the topper is very very minimal so we've not actually put an angle on this one because we sink into the carpet quite nicely but here is a bit more pronounced so we're just going to get our handy dandy bevel i'm gonna match match the wall to the this which ah that was close enough for what we want i always go but that's a bit more the reason i got a little bit more is it doesn't really matter if the top doesn't sit that well but then it really pushes itself into the carpet so we've now got our angle so what we do is take this to the saw so i'm not gonna [Music] stop so just cut on the aluminium angle now on a wood saw yes it does it [Applause] so i'm gonna do now is um i'm gonna just drill some holes in the back of the angle and that's how we're going to screw it through to the wood at the back [Applause] so now this is the the one with the angle on it the one the bottom of the cupboard so i thought if you've ever used a craig system before so we like to use craigs going into the wall because of the angle and lots of jazz so [Music] okay so we've got our angle i've done the holes in the back so what i'm gonna now do is peel off the protective layer because if you forget it's a nightmare to get out i'm going to take it all off so we're going to make sure it's lined off so we're going to corner block up this when we're fitting it now so what we do is when we are fitting these to the top just because the roof does give a little bit of a taper we just set them down just a couple of mil so on this panel on the square edges [Music] i'm just going to put a couple of these blocks as we mentioned earlier don't forget to peel it so now we can put them both together three sixteens [Music] so now we've got our basic carcass of um cupboard all it needs now is some of the gastric putting on now we can install [Music] you

Channel: Creation Campers

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Keywords: camper, how to, camper cupboard, locker, t trim, router, lightweight, plywood, rv, motorhome, diy camper, diy, dewalt, table saw, ship happens, sprinter, self build, bespoke, building a camper, building, caravan, microwave

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Length: 21min 54sec (1314 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 30 2021