@@NikosKatsikanis, you use a push stick. A lot of table saws come with it or even make one. It prevents your fingers / hands from coming close to the blade.
Yes, if you have a pushstick, your hand is further from the blade in case of kickback or a slip or jam. If you have your hand down by the blade so close, you can have your hand accidently slipped into the blade. Great job on the project. the cabinets look great!
As the former owner of a construction company (lots of kitchen remodels), I was going to mention a few things. A couple have already been mentioned - using a push stick on the table saw and sanding/priming/painting the interiors of the cabinets before facing them. A couple others: 1. Make cleats to hang your upper cabinets (It looked like you might have done this, but you didn't mention it.) to make it easier to hang them and keep them level. 2. Put paper (newspaper, butcher paper, etc.) between your clamps and the wood to keep from accidentally gluing your clamp to the wood if a little glue squeezes out. Otherwise, a good video.
Came out nice. One step that will save a ton of extra work... before you assemble anything, always pre-sand (and prime/pre-finish) the interior surfaces. Doing so afterwards is not only hard to get at, but you have to hand sand into all the corners/edges and it never comes out as well. I'm re-doing my existing 70s colonial golden oak kitchen... painting the carcasses and making all new doors, drawers and trim (shaker style). Saved a ton of money and work over buying all new.
I have been researching how to build my own cabinets for months with no luck finding an easy DIY that wasn’t intimidating,,, I recently had an accident and it took me 2-3 months to recover, just enough time to reconsider the project and I find THIS GEM on UA-cam ❤I appreciate you sir!! Thank you for giving this first time DIYer hope 🙌🏽
Please do not push Pieces that are smaller than 12cm( 4,724 inches) with your hand through the tablesaw. That's how fingers start flying. My colleague lost 3 fingers doing exactly that. Other than that, you did a good job👍🏼
I got Home depot to cut all my stuff from my cut list. Just oversized everything by a 1/2" and cleaned them up at home on the table saw. No, issues, no cost, no truck rental to bring it home.
One thing I like to do with cabinets is finish the insides with a clear polyurethane. It holds up much better than painting the insides and looks very professional in my opinion.
Ditto on the hands across the table saw. You can make push sticks with a few small scraps. When you hang your cabinets it will be infinitely easier if you use a ledger board to balance your wall cabinets on that will also make sure they are all exactly the same height.
Great builds. The money you saved plus the quality of your builds are far superior than any box store garbage. I get your obsession with checking for square. lol
4:44 Cutting the back for the cabinet is basic math. Take the outside dimension of the width of the cabinet, subtract the thickness of each side panel. This will leave you with an inside dimension. Add the depth of the dados (each side), then subtract a sixteenth to allow for some wiggle room. When I build anything, I always do the math first, then each part is written on a materials list. Sometimes I will double check my math, depending on how difficult the project is.
Very informative, i like the information at the end of the total cost and savings, that’s what I wanted to know . Good thing about pointing out the differences of material you would get if you were to had purchased the cabinets. Overall good video 👍🏻.
When I make my lower cabs I make a separate toe kick base for easy leveling and use strips of poly between the base and body to prevent water from weeping into cabs from the inevitable flood that ALWAYS happens in a rental.
Damn! I have a friend who is good at carpentry. He use to cut plywood on his table saw just as you do. He lost a thumb! Too late for him; but, he now uses a pusher stick to rip narrow pieces of stock.
Great video because it shows you don’t need thousands and thousands of dollars worth of top of the line tools to build something as intimidating as kitchen cabinets.
It is nice to have 3/4 inch cabinet sides for the shelf pins. The thinner sides on the cabinets we have mean that the shelf pin holes are not really deep enough to hold the pins securely. With 3/4 ply you can drill deeper holes than the default for the Kreg jig and the pins seat much better.
Nice work, looks great!! I tried that Kreg track saw for a few years and hated it!! A few months ago I bought the Makita Track saw and it's a game changer, amazing accurate cuts unlike the Kreg Track saw.
OK dude, I can relate to you, I've got the same assortment of tools that you have. A 'true' handyman video, not all of us can afford all of the machines in the last video I watched!!😂😂 Nice job.
Those turned out looking great! I’m buying a house we just got done doing the kitchen on unfortunately when the guy decided to do the kitchen i wasn’t aware that he wanted to sell so now that I’m buying I’m thinking I may end up redoing the kitchen again but full diy like this since I can build the equivalent of tens of thousands of dollars of cabinets for a few thousand and they will be as good if not better quality than those particle board pieces of junk so many people install. The ones we just did look great but the aesthetic of greyscale everything is not my cup of tea. It’ll do for now until I get the time and money to make it happen but I’m thinking some nice maple plywood and solid maple frames with a black walnut epoxy river countertop on the island and probably some nice granite or Cambria for the rest of the counters. I’m thinking it’d look pretty awesome but still gotta save up a few grand to make it happen.
Hey awesome job, im gonna try to follow this step, it seem so much easier. Where did u buy your soft close slides, can u send a link please, thanks much
Nice work! As a person who cut off the tip of his thumb doing custom woodwork, I wont chastise you for your lack of safety with a table saw. You do you. Just remember that's not a tile saw blade.
Love it! I’m planning to do this following a method very similar to this over the next year or two. Where did you find the radiate plywood? My Home Depot used to carry it before the pandemic and I LOVED it, but I haven’t been able to find it since then!
Thanks for the cost breakdown. My kitchen is a little smaller but needs some custom sizes due to a door and two windows. I'd be looking at over 10 grand to have them built. Almost 6 grand to make some Ikea cabs work in the space.
Im fairly new to woodworking. I have a table saw and have been using dados but I don’t like switching blades so I’m thinking of getting a router…. Do you have a video on using the router and bit for a job like this?
Hello ! he is very interested in the way you work and I like it, it is very close to mine and I find myself. can you tell me how thick is the plywood with which you work the walls and the bottom of the cabinet, thank you.
just FYI, when searching, sometimes this plywood is listed as 23/32" plywood, this is the same as 3/4" (since it is not actually exact 3/4") @@georgeconvertvan6890
Wow - this looks like fun! I think I am going to give this a go. This might be a stupid question.... for your 3/4' plywood and door panels did you use maple wood as well? I would like to stain mine and want the wood to all match if that makes sense.
I working on some cabinets for my place and floor replacement. I was going to install floating floor and not put the floor down where cabinets are going, I see you did the entire floor - thoughts on the pros - cons on putting the floor under the cabinets instead of just around?
I like the floor to go under the cabinets. Simply because if there are any alterations later there is a floor already there. Last year I changed a peninsula kitchen into an island kitchen. When I took the peninsula out there was no floor underneath. I had to get a flooring guy to come out and install a new floor section.
I want to build new kitchen cabinets (the cabinets at our new house are chipped and swelled MDF 😬). Something I want to try is making our counters a little taller than the standard height as I’m 5’8” and my husband is 6’4” and we find ourselves slouching down to use the counters. I imagine that would be N easy enough modification to make if you’re making your cabinets custom to your space anyway, right?
Yes that would be an easy modification if you’re building from scratch. But make sure you really want that before you do it because there are lots of things that are based off standard counter height. If you raise the counter say 2 inches, now your stove will sit two inches below your counter, same thing with your dishwasher. There are probably other things that will be affected as well. But good luck! Definitely give it a shot building your cabinets!
to lessen the chance of kick back when cutting your plywood, don't attach pieces the full length to your rip fence, only use pieces long enough to act as a stop, so when you engage your cut to the blade your are no longer in contact with the pieces attached to your fence.
I'd have made that corner cabinet a double, it would acctually make a great place for a sink and a garbage disposal, or maybe a dishwasher. But depends on tour kitchen layout.
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I like the video. You using your hands to push through the table saw gave me the chill.
how would u do it?
@@NikosKatsikanis, you use a push stick. A lot of table saws come with it or even make one. It prevents your fingers / hands from coming close to the blade.
u should see how we chop wood in ukraine >
ya, fingers between the blade and fence.... without a blade guard, or riving knife. I do sketchy stuff like everybody else but that made me cringe.
Yes, if you have a pushstick, your hand is further from the blade in case of kickback or a slip or jam. If you have your hand down by the blade so close, you can have your hand accidently slipped into the blade. Great job on the project. the cabinets look great!
As the former owner of a construction company (lots of kitchen remodels), I was going to mention a few things. A couple have already been mentioned - using a push stick on the table saw and sanding/priming/painting the interiors of the cabinets before facing them. A couple others: 1. Make cleats to hang your upper cabinets (It looked like you might have done this, but you didn't mention it.) to make it easier to hang them and keep them level. 2. Put paper (newspaper, butcher paper, etc.) between your clamps and the wood to keep from accidentally gluing your clamp to the wood if a little glue squeezes out. Otherwise, a good video.
Came out nice. One step that will save a ton of extra work... before you assemble anything, always pre-sand (and prime/pre-finish) the interior surfaces. Doing so afterwards is not only hard to get at, but you have to hand sand into all the corners/edges and it never comes out as well.
I'm re-doing my existing 70s colonial golden oak kitchen... painting the carcasses and making all new doors, drawers and trim (shaker style). Saved a ton of money and work over buying all new.
Great tip! This is definitely the way to go!
Thank you for this tip! Does the paint affect glue though?
I have been researching how to build my own cabinets for months with no luck finding an easy DIY that wasn’t intimidating,,, I recently had an accident and it took me 2-3 months to recover, just enough time to reconsider the project and I find THIS GEM on UA-cam ❤I appreciate you sir!! Thank you for giving this first time DIYer hope 🙌🏽
Oh thank you Stephanie! That means a lot
Please do not push Pieces that are smaller than 12cm( 4,724 inches) with your hand through the tablesaw. That's how fingers start flying. My colleague lost 3 fingers doing exactly that. Other than that, you did a good job👍🏼
Thank you!
I've been watching for about 1 min so far and I just choked on this! Push sticks are so much easier to replace than fingers! 🙂
@@kingali7261A piece of scrap wood, or you can buy a push stick
@@kingali7261push sticks
Also no riving knife installed.
I got Home depot to cut all my stuff from my cut list. Just oversized everything by a 1/2" and cleaned them up at home on the table saw. No, issues, no cost, no truck rental to bring it home.
Love the creativity!
One of the best vids I have ever seen on kitchen cabinets - Excellent!
That means a lot! Thank you 🙏
Me watching this like I intend on building cabinets lol it was a good diy.
I’m doing the same thing 🤣🤣
I just love the simplicity of the craftsmanship and the way it all came out …..great job
Thanks! That means a lot
One thing I like to do with cabinets is finish the insides with a clear polyurethane. It holds up much better than painting the insides and looks very professional in my opinion.
Ditto on the hands across the table saw. You can make push sticks with a few small scraps. When you hang your cabinets it will be infinitely easier if you use a ledger board to balance your wall cabinets on that will also make sure they are all exactly the same height.
Ditto on the ledger. Furthermore, if you don't have a helper, the ledger board will enable perfect placement before driving your screws.
I clicked like and subscribe! This has to be one of the best how to videos I’ve ever watched. 👍
Thank you! That means a lot!
Absolutely gorgeous cabinets! Great video! Hopefully I will be able to make my cabinets look that awesome!
Thank you! I’m really glad it was helpful!
Great builds. The money you saved plus the quality of your builds are far superior than any box store garbage. I get your obsession with checking for square. lol
Thanks Keith! We are definitely like-minded people haha
yeah, ikea cabinates are just chipboard
4:44 Cutting the back for the cabinet is basic math. Take the outside dimension of the width of the cabinet, subtract the thickness of each side panel. This will leave you with an inside dimension. Add the depth of the dados (each side), then subtract a sixteenth to allow for some wiggle room. When I build anything, I always do the math first, then each part is written on a materials list. Sometimes I will double check my math, depending on how difficult the project is.
Very informative, i like the information at the end of the total cost and savings, that’s what I wanted to know . Good thing about pointing out the differences of material you would get if you were to had purchased the cabinets. Overall good video 👍🏻.
When I make my lower cabs I make a separate toe kick base for easy leveling and use strips of poly between the base and body to prevent water from weeping into cabs from the inevitable flood that ALWAYS happens in a rental.
Damn! I have a friend who is good at carpentry. He use to cut plywood on his table saw just as you do. He lost a thumb! Too late for him; but, he now uses a pusher stick to rip narrow pieces of stock.
Cabinets look awesome, nice job. Thanks for sharing the info about the freud router bit.
Thank you! Glad it was helpful
Great video because it shows you don’t need thousands and thousands of dollars worth of top of the line tools to build something as intimidating as kitchen cabinets.
But, it's nice if you do!
Very nice! I just fast forwarded to the end and the result is awesome
It is nice to have 3/4 inch cabinet sides for the shelf pins. The thinner sides on the cabinets we have mean that the shelf pin holes are not really deep enough to hold the pins securely. With 3/4 ply you can drill deeper holes than the default for the Kreg jig and the pins seat much better.
Good point!
Awesome job! Thanks so much for the video - very helpful and gives me a lot of ideas for my wood projects as well.
Super glad to hear!
Wow amazing work there, really enjoyed the carpentry skills on display.
Thank you so much!
Amazing works brother Clayton Juarez....Great thanks for sharing these great works
Thank you!
Nice work, looks great!! I tried that Kreg track saw for a few years and hated it!! A few months ago I bought the Makita Track saw and it's a game changer, amazing accurate cuts unlike the Kreg Track saw.
this video is what have been looking for. thanks!
OK dude, I can relate to you, I've got the same assortment of tools that you have. A 'true' handyman video, not all of us can afford all of the machines in the last video I watched!!😂😂
Nice job.
Thank you! There are lots like us
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lol thought this would have been a vid for amateurs 😂😂😂😂
It is 😂😂😂
Im going to build an outdoor kitchen today. Wish me luck!
Great job am working on my hopefully they look good youres looks good
Thank you!
Great video, you barely got any quality tools but they came out nice, my favorite part is using glue everywhere that gonna be a strong cabinet
Thank you! I love showing that you don’t need expensive tools!
Great job on all those cabinets! Quality
Thank you!
Heavy hitter!!!! Great work!!!!
Funny and clearly, thanks for sharing. I advise to you think about our full automatic soft shaped edge banding machines.
Those turned out looking great! I’m buying a house we just got done doing the kitchen on unfortunately when the guy decided to do the kitchen i wasn’t aware that he wanted to sell so now that I’m buying I’m thinking I may end up redoing the kitchen again but full diy like this since I can build the equivalent of tens of thousands of dollars of cabinets for a few thousand and they will be as good if not better quality than those particle board pieces of junk so many people install. The ones we just did look great but the aesthetic of greyscale everything is not my cup of tea. It’ll do for now until I get the time and money to make it happen but I’m thinking some nice maple plywood and solid maple frames with a black walnut epoxy river countertop on the island and probably some nice granite or Cambria for the rest of the counters. I’m thinking it’d look pretty awesome but still gotta save up a few grand to make it happen.
Great and simple video
Thanks
Thump up
Looks great! Thanks for sharing
Thank you!
Fantastic you did a great job.
This is amazing, you did a great job 👏
Nicely done man...enjoyed the commentary.
Thanks dale!
I will need to be following this meticulously soon and i'm a complete beginner aha... wish me luck.
@@okeyjay you got this man!
Great Work 👍
Thank you!
Hey awesome job, im gonna try to follow this step, it seem so much easier. Where did u buy your soft close slides, can u send a link please, thanks much
Hell yea man looks dope, you should make a push stick
Thanks!
love this guys workshop - ikea pdf cupboard doors cost 50 eur like 60cm by 80 cm without fixings
Amazing job; thank you
Great video and editing. You are going to have 5x subs in no time!
Thank you! That’s an awesome compliment!
Great content!
Nice looking cabinets.
Thank you!
Nice work!
As a person who cut off the tip of his thumb doing custom woodwork, I wont chastise you for your lack of safety with a table saw. You do you. Just remember that's not a tile saw blade.
Love it! I’m planning to do this following a method very similar to this over the next year or two. Where did you find the radiate plywood? My Home Depot used to carry it before the pandemic and I LOVED it, but I haven’t been able to find it since then!
I got it at Home Depot but it was over a year ago!
Oh great! I’ll have to start looking again! Thanks!
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Thanks for the cost breakdown. My kitchen is a little smaller but needs some custom sizes due to a door and two windows. I'd be looking at over 10 grand to have them built. Almost 6 grand to make some Ikea cabs work in the space.
It gets expensive fast!
That’s why I’m learning to make my own cabinets. I want to get into the business.
Amazing work dude.
Thanks!!
very nicely done
Do you have a video showing how to install hinges. I got welders and grindes in my shop, but looks like I'll be adding some wood working tools
Great video I’m in the process of making my own cabinets now and this is very helpful! Just curious how much paint did you use on the finish coat ?
Beautiful. Great work.
Thank you! That means a lot
I like how the first thing people point out ia him using his hand incorrectly
Great job dude. Subbed!!
Thank you!
Great video. Thanks
Thank You...great demonstration
Thank you! I’m glad it was helpful
Great job 🫡
I'm not sure if I missed it, but did you mention the depth for the 1/4" groove for the router?
Im fairly new to woodworking. I have a table saw and have been using dados but I don’t like switching blades so I’m thinking of getting a router…. Do you have a video on using the router and bit for a job like this?
Impressive.
Good work.
im trying to build a shelving box, any tips?
Nice video you inspired me
That’s great to hear!
I just got the Ryobi router table. Do you like yours?
Do you have a video showing more detail on how you built the corner cabinets?
I’m sorry but I don’t
How many hours did it take you approx?
Hello ! he is very interested in the way you work and I like it, it is very close to mine and I find myself. can you tell me how thick is the plywood with which you work the walls and the bottom of the cabinet, thank you.
Thank you! I used 3/4” plywood for the carcasses and 1/4” for the backs
@@theweekendbuilder thank you very much, it's an important milestone for me and it helps me 🙏
just FYI, when searching, sometimes this plywood is listed as 23/32" plywood, this is the same as 3/4" (since it is not actually exact 3/4") @@georgeconvertvan6890
Wow - this looks like fun! I think I am going to give this a go. This might be a stupid question.... for your 3/4' plywood and door panels did you use maple wood as well? I would like to stain mine and want the wood to all match if that makes sense.
They make 3/4 mdf and plywood both with maple veneers
Thank you@@bjuarez6765
Good lord man use a push stick! Lmao
Great video all that aside though! 🤣🤣😭
Looks great but the price of build was better and of course the DIY ….priceless.
Thank you!
bro... the jump scare at 1:08 gave me chills... /s
I working on some cabinets for my place and floor replacement. I was going to install floating floor and not put the floor down where cabinets are going, I see you did the entire floor - thoughts on the pros - cons on putting the floor under the cabinets instead of just around?
I like the floor to go under the cabinets. Simply because if there are any alterations later there is a floor already there. Last year I changed a peninsula kitchen into an island kitchen. When I took the peninsula out there was no floor underneath. I had to get a flooring guy to come out and install a new floor section.
I waited to see how you put in the drawer glides? Why does everyone miss this?
Wow this is crazy you saved a lot of money, would it be possible for you to make me similar cabinets for my house ?
Great job! How did you do the part for the microwave vent?
My microwave doesn’t need a vent. It just has one built into the bottom
How much do you really save considering the time you spent to build the cabinets?
Just wondering do you have a cut list for certain size cabinets that you made ? Struggling to find size guide
Hi I have kitchen cabinet work I want to learn something from your experience can you tell me something please
I sometimes push my hand through too so don’t feel too bad. I don’t do it unless I feel comfortable then I go about it differently
Very nice job ineed to start doing woodwork can you assist😂
Very nice. 😊👍
Thank you!
What is the info on your pocket screw jig?
What about the interior raw plywood, did you apply any kind of sealer?
I want to build new kitchen cabinets (the cabinets at our new house are chipped and swelled MDF 😬).
Something I want to try is making our counters a little taller than the standard height as I’m 5’8” and my husband is 6’4” and we find ourselves slouching down to use the counters. I imagine that would be N easy enough modification to make if you’re making your cabinets custom to your space anyway, right?
Yes that would be an easy modification if you’re building from scratch. But make sure you really want that before you do it because there are lots of things that are based off standard counter height. If you raise the counter say 2 inches, now your stove will sit two inches below your counter, same thing with your dishwasher. There are probably other things that will be affected as well.
But good luck! Definitely give it a shot building your cabinets!
Yes. But just fill the gap at the dishwasher
Hi mate awesome video.. exactly what I want to do... just one question... Did you make your own table top too?
If you’re referring to the counters, I had a sub install quartz
to lessen the chance of kick back when cutting your plywood, don't attach pieces the full length to your rip fence, only use pieces long enough to act as a stop, so when you engage your cut to the blade your are no longer in contact with the pieces attached to your fence.
Do you have any information like a parts list and total cost?
Realizing I can’t afford the router bit, and I live in a garage. Breaking out of generational poverty is a chore lmao
I'd have made that corner cabinet a double, it would acctually make a great place for a sink and a garbage disposal, or maybe a dishwasher. But depends on tour kitchen layout.
does the wood will not rot due to moisture and water from plates?
The savings is way larger not hiring it out.
A custom kitchen re-mod can run around $80K or more these days.
So true!
Did you use any primer before painting the cabinets?
Any reason you didn't make a dado in the bottom platform to accept the back panel?
Wow, how did he install the countertop
I hired a company for the countertops!