Coming along nicely. This main part is ready to hang. Tomorrow, the smaller cabinet over the stub counter. That should go together pretty quickly, because almost everything's already cut out and routed. Then we hang them and mount the counter base. Then...drawers and doors.
I learned a new extra-scary thing today: Ripping 1X2 lumber. As far as I can tell, you're pretty much supposed to leave fingers on the table.
Oh...if you're wondering about the teeny-tiny cabinet on the right: It was that or not have any usable space in the cabinet it butts up against. I figure it's good for small spice bottles and rifle magazines.
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You're supposed to use a push stick to push the 1X2 when you're close to the blade and another to keep it against the rip fence.
You DID lower the blade so it was only as high as it needed to be to cut- right?
What KurtP said about ripping 1x2. Took some cuffing while learning that as a lad. A Cuff to the head was better than a lost finger.
That skinny cabinet looks like it might hole a sawed off shotgun, standing up.
I did both those things. It was still scary.
Rattlesnakes and chainsaws don't have as much of my respect as table saws do, because with neither of those am I actually supposed to put my soft, tender flesh near the dangerous part. No wonder I've met so many carpenters with fingers of various lengths.
I figure it's good for small spice bottles and rifle magazines.
I don't have a good sense of scale - but it looks perfect for shotgun.
I'll add my voice for shotgun. Damn, Joel. It even looks plumb. You don't wanna know how Toon Town that would look if I was doing it.
Buck.
Nobody's more surprised than me, Buck. I mentioned to D yesterday that tools really do seem to matter, because I mostly made accurate cuts and square joins as opposed to my usual "crooked little man in a crooked little house" practice.
Of course the fact that every step was overseen by an expert at least once didn't hurt. And we'll see how plumb it looks when I try to interface it with my crooked little house.
For future reference: There's a widget called a "finger board" (calm down; no human fingers involved), easily made/used, that takes most of the frightening part out of ripping small stock on a table saw.
I speak as one who a)used to teach woodworking/cabinetmaking and b) once upon a time (when I was much younger and [hopefully] much stupider than I am now), I suffered a close encounter of the worst kind (with a dado head, no less) on a table saw. Got inside the "four-inch limit" - still got all the fingers, but a couple of them make alien-looking fingerprints...
If you want details on the "finger board" and can't find it on-line, send me an e-mail at: bridgesjsjr*AT*hotmaildotcom, and I'll send some details.
Good-looking job on the kitchen - that skinny cabinet on the right side would do well for stashing cutting boards - but a sawed-off double or pump-gun would likely fit, too.
Stay well.
JSBridges
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