Now the wife wants sliding glass doors below the drawers on front and across
the whole back (acid etched glass with 3 inch aluminum frame. I think now
I'll use 1X3's and make a supporting subrame clad with 1/2 plywood and then
the 1 inch solid maple on the exterior.

I'll use a lot of those metal framing plates just to shore things up! If
anything I go for over kill, and it'll cost 10K and wiegh in at 4 tons. Then
I'll have to add an engine to move it!

Thanks..... Joe


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It'll be used both for food prep and for storage for pots and pans. So
far I'm looking at 2 drawers with 3 cabinet doors. I got the wheels
from grizzly the other day. 4-4" (500lb) So I'm part of the way there.
I also want to use a granite top. So far I was looking at making a 1/2
inch plywood box with Maple face 1X2's and 1X3's Glued running
vertically all the way around!

the more I look at the harder it is to decide.


If I were making a rolling island, with that much weight up high, I'd beef
up the structure cosiderably from what you describe. Cross bracing, with
real joinery, too.

But that's just me. I hate doing things over again, while my wife says "I
told you so."

Patriarch