I started another threat asking for advice on this project a week or three ago. I spent a week brainstorming, designing, measuring the size of my ammo boxes, powder bottles, boxes of bullets, and door opening to make sure this thing could be carried from the garage to the man cave aka soon to be guest room and man cave.
Putting thoughts down on paper:
Final plans (in a near fatal case of measure twice, cut once, good thing I noticed my current bench is 36 1/2in tall, not the 30in I thought!):
The shelves and top pieces are all put in with 1/4" rabbits and dadoes. THAT was a learning experience. First, I completely blew past checking the dado width with a scrap piece of wood. I cut every single rabbit and dado before figuring it out. Got lucky and was able to save that little mistake.
Getting consistent dado and rabbit depths on my table saw will take some practice. I'll be trying to cut them with my plunge router next time. I hear setting the depth is way easier, but getting them perfectly aligned on multiple pieces is a little more difficult.
And here are the results of today's build:
It ended up 47 3/4in wide, 24in deep, 34in tall. You can see some kiddo toys invading the garage already!
There is a little bit of a bow in the right side due to the rabbit/dado depths. The center upright piece having rabbits on both side of the top probably was a mistake in design. I went with dados and rabbits to increase the rigidity of the whole unit. That glue up was fun. The pocket holes you see go through the 1/4in of material in the middle into the other board. I will be using all pocket holes for the upper cabinets of this build. Gluing this up was a challenge!
The next step is cutting rabbits and a central dado in the back panel piece. That should make this solid as a rock, though that bow in the right side will be interesting to adjust a rabbit for. I'll have to go get more ply for doors.
For a top, I'm looking at two sheets of 3/4 ply, primed, then coated with white tinted epoxy. Should make for a very well lit work surface.
Then I'll need to buy pizza for a friend or three to move everything upstairs!
Putting thoughts down on paper:
Final plans (in a near fatal case of measure twice, cut once, good thing I noticed my current bench is 36 1/2in tall, not the 30in I thought!):
The shelves and top pieces are all put in with 1/4" rabbits and dadoes. THAT was a learning experience. First, I completely blew past checking the dado width with a scrap piece of wood. I cut every single rabbit and dado before figuring it out. Got lucky and was able to save that little mistake.
Getting consistent dado and rabbit depths on my table saw will take some practice. I'll be trying to cut them with my plunge router next time. I hear setting the depth is way easier, but getting them perfectly aligned on multiple pieces is a little more difficult.
And here are the results of today's build:
It ended up 47 3/4in wide, 24in deep, 34in tall. You can see some kiddo toys invading the garage already!
There is a little bit of a bow in the right side due to the rabbit/dado depths. The center upright piece having rabbits on both side of the top probably was a mistake in design. I went with dados and rabbits to increase the rigidity of the whole unit. That glue up was fun. The pocket holes you see go through the 1/4in of material in the middle into the other board. I will be using all pocket holes for the upper cabinets of this build. Gluing this up was a challenge!
The next step is cutting rabbits and a central dado in the back panel piece. That should make this solid as a rock, though that bow in the right side will be interesting to adjust a rabbit for. I'll have to go get more ply for doors.
For a top, I'm looking at two sheets of 3/4 ply, primed, then coated with white tinted epoxy. Should make for a very well lit work surface.
Then I'll need to buy pizza for a friend or three to move everything upstairs!
