Looking for a book on buildeing Kitchen cabinets

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 19:50:25 GMT, Unquestionably Confused
<[email protected]> wrote:

>I thought "Building Your Own Kitchen Cabinets" by Jere Cary, Taunton
>Press (Fine Woodworking) c. 1983, was pretty decent.

Unfashionable, but that's still my favourite too. Great section on
how to use story sticks to measure up a "real" kitchen.

Jim Tolpin has a similar book too, which is the one usually
recommended.

A couple of years ago I was looking for a good kitchen cabinet book and
looked at many. None of them are very good, including Tolpins. They
leave out many of the little things you need to know. At the Detroit
Woodworking show last December, Marc Adams put on a seminar on building
cabinets which I thought was very good. He has a video that would
probably be a good place to start. Here's the URL:

http://www.marcadams.com/videos.html

As is true in most woodworking projects, the most important part of the
project is detailed, accurate drawing. Also, in the case of kitchen
cabinets, there are certain standards which must be followed.

Rich

I've recently been looking over books on building kitchen cabinets as I
plan on doing this in the next couple of months after our remodel is
underway. I bought "Building Kitchen Cabinets" by Udo Schmidt,
published by Taunton. It's good but almost exclusively about building
face frame cabinets. Danny Proulx's book, which I borrowed from the
library, has a nice section on doing frameless European style cabinets,
which is what we're leaning towards for our house. I've also been
checking out the displays in home improvement stores. Before you get
too far along in the process you will want to pick out the slides,
hinges and any other hardware you are going to incorporate, i.e. lazy
susans, recycling bins, etc. as this will dictate dimensions on certain
cabinets. www.woodworkershardware has got a good selection and good
prices- standard disclaimer- not a representative, yada, yada, yada.
Have fun.

Dale

Tim wrote:
> Any favorites out there?

Tim wrote:
> Any favorites out there?

I asked that same question a year or so ago. I got much the same
answers as you are getting--good books all. I picked most of them up
at the local library.

But, as an infrequent weekend warrior, they all seemed sort of a
half-step beyond me. Oh, I could figure out what was being said
alright but I needed to read the text again and again to get it thru my
thick noggin.

Then somebody pointed me toward a little bitty of a book called
"Building Your Own Kitchen Cabinetry" by John Paquay. It was the BEST
$9.00 I have ever spent in my life--well, in woodworking anyway.

This book cuts through all the rhetoric and tells you how to just
simply build the cabinets. It made sense of all the other books but I
didn't NEED any other book. This one is all you need. Of course, this
book doesn't go into huge amounts of detail about kitchen design, etc.
nor does it have purty color pictures.

In order to get all the bells and whistles, you will need to go for one
of the other suggested books. To simply cut to the chase, John's book
is outstanding. All that and he answered a lot of nagging little
questions I had, too, via e-mail! One heck of a nice guy and a grea
book.

ray

I bought Tolpins book after looking through several at Borders. I also
bought Paquay's book as well. As a hobbyist building cabs for the
first time, I felt better about the methods in Tolpin's book. Pocket
screws for the face frames, biscuits and screws with butt joints for
carcasses, adjustable feet for ease of installation and leveling.

Tolpin includes a lot of information about setting up work areas, jigs,
laying out the design, story sticks, etc.

Considering the time and money that you are going to put into this
project, I would recommend this book. Even if you don't ultimately use
all of his methods, a tip or hint here or there will be well worth the
$25.

I agree that Toplins book is good. I should have probably purchased it
as well instead of simply taking it out of the library whenever I
needed it...just a cheap b*sta*rd I guess...

Things like jigs and design layout along with some of the good hints
like you mentioned.

I think what I was trying to say was that, for me, John's book sort of
tied up a lot of loose ends for me. In the end, however, I probably
used a hybrid of suggestions from everything I read.

Great suggestons,so I ordered two books

Building Traditional Kitchen Cabinets - Jim Tolpin
Building Kitchen Cabinets - Udo Schmidt

I can sift through these two books for idea's on Face frame cabniets.
I am a full time hardwoodflooring installer-refinisher, Lots of scrape flooring
And My brother makes flooring. Cheap wood, just have to add on his large order.

So I was thinking on ordering Qtr White Oak for the door panels and Rift for
the frames.
But first a sample for Wife


Tim <[email protected]> wrote:
>Any favorites out there?
>

J T wrote:
> Sun, Feb 13, 2005, 1:13pm (EST-1) [email protected] (Tim)
> asks:
> Any favorites out there?
>
> Check your local library. And, used bookstores. To see which one
> "you" like.

I thought "Building Your Own Kitchen Cabinets" by Jere Cary, Taunton
Press (Fine Woodworking) c. 1983, was pretty decent.

While it's pretty much a primer, it's fairly comprehensive with regard
to planning, sizing and a lot of the little things that one might tend
to overlook until...<g>

Don't know if it's still in print or not. It sold for $11.95 and had an
ISBN of 0-918804-15-9

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:13:08 -0600, Tim <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Any favorites out there?

Danny Proulx's Books on cabinet making have some interesting features.
"Build Your Own Kitchen Cabinets" and "Building Cabinet Doors and Drawers"




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Sun, Feb 13, 2005, 1:13pm (EST-1) [email protected] (Tim)
asks:
Any favorites out there?

Check your local library. And, used bookstores. To see which one
"you" like.



JOAT
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On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:25:53 -0500, [email protected] (J T)
wrote:

>Sun, Feb 13, 2005, 1:13pm (EST-1) [email protected] (Tim)
>asks:
>Any favorites out there?
>
> Check your local library. And, used bookstores. To see which one
>"you" like.
>
>
Heck just look at an old kitchen cabinet and notice how it "Put
together"........ honestly they are a pretty easy thing to make...no
rocket science .... DESIGN on the other hand is my problem...

Bob Griffiths

"The workshop Companion : Making Built-in Cabinets" by Nick Engler.
I just finished reading it today. It was published in '92, and seems like a
decent book for a beginner to intermediate woodworker. (I'll be building
mine over the next 2 - 3 days.)
Good Luck
Sean
"Tim" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Any favorites out there?
>

"busbus" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>
> Then somebody pointed me toward a little bitty of a book called
> "Building Your Own Kitchen Cabinetry" by John Paquay. It was the BEST
> $9.00 I have ever spent in my life--well, in woodworking anyway.

When I built my mother's kitchen cabinets some 15 years ago, I bought and
used a book called Building Your Own Kitchen Cabinets" by Jere Cary. I knew
it was the right book when I called in a plumber to connect the sink to the
drain and faucets and he told me that it was easy to install because it had
been built properly.