Hand Tool Cabinet Build Part 1. Making the Carcass.
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- Опубліковано 10 січ 2021
- What's Happening Everyone! This Is the First part of the hand tool cabinet build. In this episode I make the main carcass and the doors from birch ply.
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Just found this series. Its kind of like listening to Conor McGregor talk about wood working. I can get down with this. Lol
7 minutes in and I realise "Hand Tool Cabinet Build" wasn't what I thought it was!
Nice design. Great work.
Hands down (and hands on for that matter) the most useful and inspirational woodworking channel. You have projects that makes me feel that I got a fair chance of realising them. The miter saw bench, the MDF Parfitt bench, and the tool cabinet is something I'm going to do as soon as the new garage is built. And the tips about checking the calibration on the saws are super useful. Great work John!
Great video John, thanks
Thoroughly enjoyed this part, looking forward to seeing part 2
Glad you enjoyed it
Great project John
I can tell this will be an awesome build and great addition to your shop. Thanks for the constant inspiration. Vids like this are a nice uplift from everything happening over here in the states.
No problem.
Another excellent video John, warts and all. Looking forward to seeing it filled out with your tools. (As you are as well). Keep safe.
Great video for the beginning of the year!!! Well explained. Don't forget that our "disasters" make us better woodworkers and after all...we are human.
Great video and one I shall be coming back to when I get my workshop built.
Fabulous idea John, well done!!!
Like this build so far. I've been trying to dial my miter saw in...off just a hair on square and on 45°...can't figure out why. Blade is square to the table...fence is square to the table...but yet...aaagghh....anyway the shooting board to the rescue!
I was saying that to you as you described your mitre issue
..hehe.."get the shooting board "...
You are a joy to watch. Thanks for your inspiration.
Looks good John
Looks great, John, and appreciate you including all the mistakes and recovery - really helpful.
I’ve been working on something similar for about two years now, on and off, and getting it past the finish line is one of my goals for the current lockdown 😀
I know the feeling!
Very nice job John. I built one very similar to yours. I used piano hinges for the doors, because of the size and weight of items going inside of it. It worked out quite nice. Good luck and as you say "crack on".
Cheers William, I'm trying to order some but it looks like the world ran out of piano hinges lol
Really enjoying this project John and glad you show your mistakes as we all make them. I would really like to see a glass or plexiglass front for your doors so you can easily see what in the front of the door.
Try getting a piece of insulation board and laying it on your bench and then have your blade going only a tiny bit deeper than the plywood and it'll stop you having to overhang, you can just cut all day and they'll stay on the bench without falling on the floor once each piece has been cut. ✌
Thanks for sharing, I’ve considered a cabinet very similar to this one. I’m glad you shared overlooking the power tool set up and check. Also my 12 inch Bosch miter saw is set perfectly, however I sometimes Have off cut 90’s and 45’s. And you explained the reason why, thank you John.
Glad to help
Perfect timing, im thinking of making a (much smaller) hand tool cabinet myself 👍🏻
Perfect!
That's going to look great. As it will be your video backdrop definitely want dark hardwood accents. Mitre keys look great. Walnut and brass look really nice but brexxit and lockdown may make it hard.
Hey John had the same issue with my track saw, I bought the TSO parallel guides and it solved my problem .
Great project, design looks really good - off to see part 2 now.
Glad you enjoyed it
Really cool build . Maybe a glass front with led rope light around the frame just a thought .
Looking good. Love your workshop!
Thank you! Cheers!
Great start! Looking forward to rest of project.
Thanks!
Looking great so far, John -- looking forward to seeing how it turns out!
Looking good so far John, excited to watch this one be completed, I've got the same thing on my to do list. Hopefully only a couple months away from building my own.
Love this project John. Cheers from Vermont!
It is amazing what the next day brings.......after a Guinness or two ...fair play.
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Well lad, a fellow Irishman here, from the south......Wexico baby!! hhaha :P Its far handier and more accurate to place the track saw on the piece youre cutting off, that way ya dont have to add on the thickness of the kerf :) Im in the process of collecting wood to build my own tool cabinet......I work with only hand tools tho so its gonna take me significantly longer to build mine :P Nice build so far lad, cant wait to see it when its all done bud :)
Jay
Love your work. Noticed something i had to comment on. I hate having to account for blade width, etc. Make sure your track is on the line and the blade is cutting on the waste side (off cut). With the off cut supported you wont have to wrestle with it. I had this same issue and have a left blade saw which reversed everything for me. Hope this helps for safer and more accurate cutting. ;-)
Set the track up on the material you want the blade will be on the waste side of your cut👍
Wow it is going to be monster. Nice build good progress 👌👌👌. Well done
Thanks 👍
Just going to watch the next ones. So pleased to find someone in Ireland. Great videos.
This video isn’t in the playlist - had to find it.. just so you know :)
Looking good, John.
I couldn't tell from the video if you did this, but when you use shoot brads into a mitered corner it's good to put them into each joint from both directions. That is, shoot a couple through the sides into to ends and a couple through the ends into the sides. That way there are brads in perpendicular directions resisting the joint coming apart.
Also, don't neglect a place for your hammers and mallets.
Only shot them in from the top and bottom, I want to add dowels to the sides where it will be seen.
Really like your videos mate! One thing I like in particular is that you leave your mistakes in your videos and even talk about them. Mentioning what went wrong and what you did to make it right again is really great content and I think I speak for most of your viewers when I say that it makes it feel a bit like "Hey, I could do that to, a few mishaps is not such a big deal"
When watching most of the really big american and canadian woodworkers where it´s all wham bam thank you mam I just made this entire stack of cutting boards with absolutely no mistakes, I think it can be a bit frightening or what you should call it. Making people go "wow I will never be that great, might as well sell all my tools"
Keep up the good work, looking forward to see you finishing this mighty cabinet!
Thanks Stefan. The day we stop making mistakes is the day we stop trying.
Nice one John keep up the good work
Magic video John. Looking forward to the next one. Peter
Great start to the year brother. This is actually what’s next on by list since finally getting my No° 6 & 7. Still looking for a L-N Bronze No° 4 and I’ll be done (right, we’re never done 🤪). Holding a brand new Stanley LAJ No°62 and some cash ready to pounce as soon as I can find one. Thank you again and keep it up brother!
Semper Fidelis - Semper Christus,
Shannon
I should complain though, as my current workhorse No °4 is an old Bailey Type 6 running an A2 Hock. Just didn’t want to sound like I was whining, I’m actually very very fortunate 🙃
Oooh would love a bronze no 4!
Great build I think Brass would look great with the Burch for the contrast along with African blackwood. The only issue is I think you would need to get a boat to get some
but it does look great
Not much chance of African blackwood lol
Love your channel John, can't believe I hadn't discovered it earlier!
Thanks very much! well you are here now and the present is all that exists 😁
John love this I am so gutted I can’t see it it’s gonna sound pretty amazing. Piano range would be good and it looks nice as well and it’s all supported the door then. But what about LED strip lighting have you thought about them be quite quirky to have around and you can even have them underneath the drawers when you open them
Hi John, I'm a 4yr hobby woodworker from Devon, England and enjoy your videos. If you dont have long enough clamps, have you tried wedges? Fit or clamp long stop blocks either end of your work bench, a little further apart than your workpiece so you have a gap and use pair's of wedges on one end to fill the gap and clamp your work. The tighter you bang the wedges together the more clamping pressure you add and only requires chopping up some scrap wood. I've used this method a few times (learnt this from watching Izzy Swan) with great results, even used a couple of times since buying long clamps.
I use cheap screwfix clear dpm over my kitchen table for bigger glue ups and grease proof baking paper for smaller glue ups on my work bench. Both cheap, reusable multiple times and easier to lay out than bin bags.
Thanks for the tips!
Really enjoyed the video John, great project, good to see the errors, and how you address them, it looks like you will end up with a really nice tool cabinet, functional and well designed. Have you considered some transparent or glazed doors for the very front? And will you be continuing to use the dehumidifier you were using in your old cabinet, did that little gadget really make a big difference, or was it more the wax you started using? Lovely to watch your video, and looking forward to the next parts, keep if the good work, thank you
Just found you and excited to see this come together. New subscriber from Las Vegas! I’ve been collecting some new chisels and planes recently and def need to make a place for them.
Welcome along!
Dang, I'm sooo jealous of your workshop! I just have a corner in my unheated garage... And I'm in northern Sweden, so I can't do anything during the winter months! 😭
I started in a tiny shed, I was in it not so long ago. I don't have any heat either but its not as cold as Northern Sweden! 🥶
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I was spoiled with my dad's workshop until my parents got too old and sold the house. I grew up in that workshop! 😁 A small blond girl with a tiny knife carving away on pieces of wood my dad handed me! 😂 Dolls were not my cup of tea as a kid. 😜
Btw, do you have any tips on storage for handheld power tools? I can't really find a good way to store them without taking up loads of space. 🤔 It's mostly Bosch 18V series tools.
A dartboard inside one those doors would look great 😊. Great video . Eventually got myself a makita plunge saw. Had to go to Germany for the tracks couldn’t get them from Uk . If all goes well I will send you the link to the tool shop there. Shipping was cheaper than the uk plus the tool price’s was cheaper and no worries about tax and duty
Germany seems to be the option at the minute
Really looking forward to the rest of the series John! Looks fantastic so far. Did you come up with the idea/design yourself or did you get some inspiration for it?
tree hunred an tree love it
this is looking really nice John, I think I may make a similar one, just a little smaller though :-) cheers Ian
Go for it!
Hi John. Loving this one. Very Norm Abram. Gonna go with this design myself. Cant wait for next installment. Btw glad to see the dust rolling out of your rebates while routing. I was thinking your sawdust was always fierce well behaved. Stay safe and keep up the inspirational vidjos.👌
Glad you are enjoying it Paul.
[looks at back wall] is that… what is that inside the hollowed log medallion 🐐👀
John, I did not see a single hand tool used in this Hand-tool Build of a Cabinet!
A common problem. He can't use them before they are in a proper cabinet. Besides, he did use a chisel. :)
@@janitor6669 Actually, he did use a plane, too, to fix the bevels created on his power tools. Come on @john mcgrath, you could build the entire cabinet with hand tools and you wouldn't have to fix anything!
@@RickFarris Touché :D
Great job so far Ive made one very similar please dont use piano hinges as the doors will swag due to the weight.
John great vid again also have a look at pete rmillard for tracksaw and mft tips.
Great honest video John. I hate mitres like that, mine would be much worse.😂
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😁 really enjoying this build John 👍. But.... it's already putting my backdrop to shame 😂🤣. Looking forward to part 2. Stay safe John 😁👍
Cheers Frank, you too man.
good evening john same in London wood in short supply but even more worrying cant get tools and if you can price of tools are going up cordless router Makita kit last February was 211 pounds now 289 pounds let this be a warning to people keep up the good work john
good job as usual look forward to next episode.
Glad you enjoyed it
Nice john, can I show this to my woodwork students, ,lockdown too
Go for it!
@@JohnMcGrathManInShed sound, they like new Yankee workshop so will enjoy this
Nice job. Ive been doing a hand tool cabinet last year. Made of solid walnut and oak. Is for a comptishen
Good video thank you.
Have you done a video on trueing your tools?
Not yet!
If you put nice lighting inside, you should put some cool music to play when you open the cabinet. Just a suggestion.....
Can’t wait to see how this all turns out I’m itching to do one myself. I like your door design. Forgive me for may be stating the obvious but why measure 3mm extra with the track saw when you could of just flipped the track 180 and put the kerf on the waste side of the sheet. Just work to a pencil or knife line.
I wanted to keep the large part of the sheet on the table and keep the tack off the piece I was cutting
“This was my domain, till someone stole my name” 🎵 🎶
This is great John. Have to ask and I know you're not a fan, but would life have been easier with a good table saw setup for the initial cuts ? Oh, and this would definitely double up for a good place to hide decent flat screen TV to watch the matches in peace !
G'Day John or can I call you Macca?! This was great and I am just about to embark on the same thing with tool cabinets and french cleat throughout the shed. Good luck with lockdown, here in Victoria we were locked down for over 100 days and the future is really positive now.
Macca will do just fine!
Like this video already
Rob Cosman felt a great disturbance in the force when you used a hand plane on plywood 😂
😂🤣😂 Needs must, its Birch ply so you can plane it lol.
Really good project John. Will you be selling plans for this? Also love your whiskey channel, nice to see some empty bottles too. I've not tried any Irish whiskey, but i will. Anyway this is woodworking sorry to digress :)
I'll try put some plans together on sketch up.
For the dados in the carcass bottom and shelf, I missed how you got them to match exactly to each other? Was is just marked lines on the pieces are is there a stop-block somewhere in that MFT setup you had?
I marked the centre of each piece lined up that mark on both piece and with a square marked the dados on both pieces at the same time. I recorded it but my Mic broke so there was no audio so it didn't make it in the video unfortunately.
Great Video! Have been planning this for a while but like your construction style!
Why did you use a router to cut the dado vs. dato stack? Also, in reflection would it have been easier to assemble the carcass then add in the bottom shelves?
the shelf is rebated into the sides so it had to go together the way it did.
@@JohnMcGrathManInShed Thanks mate. Well looks good. Looking forward to the finished project.
That's a fine shed! 👍 What width is it?
Its 9mx6m
Go deas john
I know you've probably finished this by now John but the only thing I wished I'd done to my hand tool cabinet that I didn't is to store my handsaws in the foldaway manner that Rob Cosman used..
Not done yet, this video was filmed today! I'm thinking of adding the foldaway saw holders.
@@JohnMcGrathManInShed Brilliant... I just wished I had planned it when I built mine
I’m sure the point wasn’t lost on you that, despite a small fortune spent on power tools, at the end of the day it was a humble shooting board which came to the rescue
Can't beat the humble shooting board, the hand tools to make it work can be expensive though
Hi John I'm comparatively new to your channel and it's great!! I've just watched part1 of the hand tool cabinet build, and would like to know the maker of the routing sled you used with your Bosch track cheers Pete
Hi Peter its the Bosch Professional 1600A001T8 FSN OFA 32 Kit 800 FSN System
Thanks for getting back to me that's really good of you to take the time all the best Pete
Dehumidifier in that as well?
Will do
Hi John, no TNT included in this build then?
Where can I find the plans for your
Hi John, I know you said your shop isn’t insulated so would you ever stick a wood burning stove in the shop to make it more comfortable for yourself?
Yeah I would love on but I'm only in my workshop for an hour or two at a time, so a wood burning stove might not work for me, I need something with instant heat that I can switch on and off.
@@JohnMcGrathManInShedMy old gaffer had a timed pellet stove in his shop, check them out. Still pretty cost effective for what you get and no noise for your filming, those big workshop gas blowers are good but very noisy and I don’t like the smell lpg burners give off.
Hi John, trying to copy this - think from plans the carcass was 300 deep but how deep were the doors?
Hi Stuart the doors are 200mm
@@JohnMcGrathManInShed you’re a star! Thanks
Well John. What happened to break your lav? Are you finding the Rode Wireless Go not robust enough for workshop use?
The wireless go is great but can be annoying when clipped to a t-shirt, so I just like to use a lav mic with it but I keep breaking them catching the wire on things.
Now I really want to get myself some nice planes and build a shooting board! The inaccuracy of my miter saw is keeping me from making mitered joints.
Its really helps
Is there gonna be plans
I'll try get some plans together at the end of the build
Try doing mitred dovetails
John how many sheets of plywood did you use on the cabinet? And are you on Twitter?
1 sheet of 18mm or 3/4 and 1 sheet of 12mm or 1/2 inch. I have a twitter but I never use it.
@@JohnMcGrathManInShed cheers for that John, I’ll be building one the same as soon as possible, your videos are great! I’m binge watching at the minute lol
@@barryreid2467 No problem Barry, I'm glad you are enjoying the content!
Hey John, any recommended birch ply supplier in the SE? I’ve been looking around and most seems to malayasian hardwood from the usual builders merchants.
Try Byrnes expert hardware in Carlow
@@rowlandprinsloo7287 thanks! Might be a bit of a trek (based in south KK).
McMahons hardwoods in Waterford that's where I go
@@JohnMcGrathManInShed cheers John! Hard getting things at the moment, but a few more places to try.
Hey John - McMahons seem to be closed from what I can tell, given the last few times I've spun past. Wondered if you had other tips for SE suppliers of sheet materials or hardwood?
table saw.
table saw/ table saw/
Maybe one day I'll get one again
$10K in power tools later
@johnmcgrath it's been 3 days John. Are you trying to build suspense. We need to know what's happening.
working as hard as I can to get videos up!