as you either heard or noticed by now I moved my shop a couple months ago I used
to be in my two-car garage and now I'm in a portion of my friend's warehouse
space actually here's a scale drawing. it's a good sized space but the bulk of its
used for inventory shipping office space bathrooms and other stuff and in fact if
you compare it to the garage you can see that the difference isn't as huge as it
might initially sound well let me take that back
the difference isn't as big yet and that's because there's a lot of
organizing and consolidation that we still need to do we should be able to
open up this space quite a bit and that's gonna make a big impact anyhow I
guess all of that is to say that today's video is gonna focus on a project that
should really help me in organising things now I've already got a lot of
small storage between this workbench and this well also workbench so really what
I need is a place to store some of the larger items and some of the things that
I rarely reach for big glue bottles bandsaw blades
dust bags all that kind of stuff let's get to work
okay so I know that I just said that I moved my shop out of the garage but here
I'm back in the garage basically any time that I'm working on a project that
involves a bunch of full sheets of plywood I like to start off in my garage
where I break them down that way I can more easily carry them into the workshop
which is in the back of the warehouse so my initial idea was to set up my table
saw and a couple of sawhorses to tackle this and about one fifth of the way
through the first cut I thought you know what this is dangerous so let's just
wait until the morning and use the circular saw
with my pieces cut down to a more manageable size and in the shop I
started refining my pieces by cutting them down to what will be their finished
dimensions and to do this I used my table saw with a feather board and for a
few of the pieces that were just too long my track saw and I know just seeing
me cut a bunch of panels doesn't really help to explain a whole lot about what's
going on so let's take a look at my cut sheet if you want the specific
dimensions you can pause this screen and write him down
otherwise in total you're gonna need five sheets of 3/4 inch plywood one
sheet of half-inch and two sheets of quarter-inch from to the sheets we'll
get the tops and bottoms and all four of the side pieces for the two vertical
cabinets from another sheet we'll get the two doors yet another sheet will
give us the four pieces needed for the low Center cabinet and we can get a
center partition from one of the other sheets and then finally we'll use the
last sheet for the back panel that will eventually mount our wall control panels
to and you should have plenty of material left over to build this three
inch platform that the whole thing can sit on and the quarter inch material is
going to be used for sliding doors and the back panels for all the cabinets and
then the half inch sheet will be used for adjustable shelves and all the
cabinets all right so with all of our pieces cut out I had a few things I
needed to do before we could start assembling anything first was cutting in
a rabbet to accept the back panels in all the cabinet exterior pieces
after that I cut two grooves into the top bottom and two side pieces for the
low Center cabinet and those are going to accept the sliding doors
and this is actually something that it asked about fairly often and I think
this shot shows how it works really well so basically you want to cut the groove
in the top a lot deeper than the groove in the bottom normally it's kind of hard
to show this on camera but because the sides are gonna get covered by the tall
cabinets I went ahead and cut them the full length of the board so you can see
them here on the outside and in this shot you can see how having that deeper
groove in the top let's the door lift up high enough to clear the bottom panels
and get into the groove next I wanted to clear out some material from the back
edge of the inside of both of the tall vertical cabinets to create a ledge
where the big back wall will sit I know that sounds kind of confusing so let's
look at a drawing so you see what I'm talking about so basically I wanted this
back panel to be flush with the back of the rest of the unit so I could have cut
it to the exact size of the span and then used pocket holes to screw it into
the cabinet's but I wanted a physical resting place for it to sit that it will
carry the load so I'm going to create this little ledge in the back and then
make the panel an inch and a half longer than the span and then screw it in to
the back of the vertical pieces and I think that's going to be a stronger
long-term solution
after I'd pre-drilled all of my pocket holes the last thing that I needed to do
before assembling was to make a bunch of Shelf pin holes for my adjustable
shelving so assembling this thing went really quick and I think that pocket
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next I cut out my back panels from some of the quarter-inch material and
installed those with a couple of screws and this is all pretty straightforward
you can see in this shot I'm using a clamp to suck my sides in while I
install the panel and something that I should have done and will next time is
when you have a cabinet this large make at least one of your shelves fixed I
ended up doing this later but having that helps to keep the long panels from
bowing in or out and makes things like installing doors a lot easier speaking
of which next we're gonna do the doors so back when I cut these out I made sure
to leave them about an inch longer than they needed to be in each direction here
I guess I'm just double-checking that and I'm also lifting the cabinet up
slightly off the ground with a piece of scrap quarter-inch plywood over at the
drill press I made three mortises for my hinges and I got the super sweet
slow-motion shot and when I was watching it back I noticed this piece let's watch
that again so this guy doesn't know where he wants to go he obviously came
from here shout out this way bounced off the post came back made it past the
vacuum ever so slightly before flipping a B and getting sucked up heck of a
journey for a woodchip
once the hinges were attached to the door I marked the locations that I
installed them clamp the door to the cabinet then transferred my marks so
that I could install the part of the hinge that goes on a cabinet then I use
my router and a flush trim bit to make the door flush with the outsides of the
cabinet and I probably should have done this a little bit earlier but next I use
my Forstner bit to make a little door pool
oh well good excuse for more slow-motion
so I've had at least two people tell me that these look like coffins so I
figured that I'd test them out
next I could build the platform that the whole thing is going to sit on top of
and as you can see in the drawing this actually needs to be longer than eight
feet the length of the plywood so I decided to build it in two halves so
basically I just ripped out a bunch of 3-inch wide pieces cut them to length
and then attached it all with pocket screws
the half that I'm working on here is identical to what the other half is
gonna be and actually in the next shot you'll be able to see me putting the two
halves together all right things are really starting to come together now
literally next I set my three cabinets on the platform and attached them to one
another that way I'd know the exact size that I should make the back panel so
that I could cut that to size and then attach it
now because adding a fixed shelf to the tall vertical cabinets was a late-game
audible I ended up putting it too high where it interfered with the back panel
so I used my multi-tool to cut out a little notch and this thing's come in
super handy for me on at least a few occasions now
so once my back panel was on I could attach my wall control panels and I
posted about this on Instagram but I'm really digging these flat gray panels I
also have some of the reflective ones where you see my woodpecker tools
hanging on the plywood storage box and they're great but I don't know there's
just something about the flat gray panels that makes me wish that I had
gone with that color for the first set too
next I cut and inserted a bunch of adjustable shelves and it turned out
that I wanted more so I used my leftover scrap and even more quarter-inch scrap
to make a few more shelves so I think this thing's gonna come in really handy
like I said it's got a ton of storage for large to medium sized things which
is really where the shops been lacking it's also got a nice wall to hang and
display things and it has this nice flat surface which is really important
because as anybody with any experience can tell you when you're mid project
flat surfaces get eaten up you're always looking for somewhere to set apart or to
set that tool that you know you're gonna need again in 15 minutes and the first
place people tend to set things is on their workbench or even the table saw
where they just get in the way constantly so this hopefully will stop
me from that behavior all right good talk
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