I really enjoyed the tour through the shop and into the kitchen.
What a nice job, and well thought out.
I am sure there were many headscratchings too.
Thanks for the view, you do real careful work.

I would like to work with a person with the knowledge like that to get some
tips of the trade.
I do a lot of cabinet making and design, but lack the kind of experience
show in your photos.
john

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On 7/13/2011 8:33 AM, jloomis wrote:

On your joinery do you dado out for the partitions or just screw and
glue or nail and glue?
just curious. I always dado out a slot for the horizontal piece of ply
to fit into the vertical and not sure if that
is always necessary.

99.9% of the time, yes I do dado "partitions", but not necessarily
"drawer dividers".

The end panels and "floors"* of my cabinets are always dadoed, glued,
and usually nailed, regardless of whether face frame, or euro cabinet
.... although a lot of euro cabinet builders don't consider it necessary.

That .1%, and generally when eating my own dogfood, I may use a butt
joint with biscuits, glue and nails ... but these are strictly down and
dirty for my use only and not something I would spec into a kitchen or
cabinet job.

All "partitions' that are full depth, are always dadoed into the end
panels, thusly:

https://picasaweb.google.com/karlcai...13547288776354

(partitions done that way make for hell-for-stout boxes!)

With horizontal "drawer dividers" on euro base cabinets, I generally do
not dado them into the end panels ... too many times a customer changes
their minds on drawer heights, so, IME, it is not wise to "cast them in
stone" with a dado.

That said, on a really tall euro cabinet, I will generally pick out one
"drawer divider" mid way up and make it into a full depth "partition"
for stability (a tall cabinet will rack, particularly if it is a
standalone, if this is not done, IME).

Of course, with a face frame cabinet, there is generally a drawer rail
involved so it's moot point, except with maybe a microwave cabinet with
a drawer under it, then the "partition" (or floor) is always dadoed into
both the end panels and back of the face frame rail.

*(in production cabinetmaking parlance, a "floor" is generally used as a
catchall designation for the "floor", the "top", and any horizontal
"partitions", because they are generally the same dimensions. IOW, the
cutlist for a microwave cabinet with a drawer below the microwave would
show a quantity of three "floors").

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