{"id":188,"date":"2011-12-20T23:15:40","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T23:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/?p=188"},"modified":"2011-12-23T00:41:22","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T00:41:22","slug":"tool-cabinet-an-about-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/20\/tool-cabinet-an-about-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Tool cabinet * An about face!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hate to waste all that work but I scraped the idea of making the cabinet from oak. I had the carcass finger jointed and ready to glue up yesterday but I started to realize that it was just a problem in making. The oak was\u00a0 heavy, it was warping and being solid wood I had to allow for expansion and contraction. The more I thought on it I decided &#8216;the look&#8217; didn&#8217;t outweigh the problems and extra work I was creating. After all this is all about function, not looks.<\/p>\n<p>I finally decided to save myself a lot of headaches so this morning I started over. I went to the building supply and picked up some birch plywood. It may not look as good but at least I know I will not have the problems I was going to have with the oak.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/d2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-190\" title=\"d2-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/d2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/d2-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/d2-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/d2-1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s also a heck of lot faster to build. I started this morning and it was glued together awhen I left the shop. I will start on the doors in the morning. I think I can finish them tomorrow. Then the slow stuff starts, deciding on how I want the tools arranged and building all the brackets and fixtures to hold them.<\/p>\n<p>When I went to pick up the plywood I was surprised to be asked if I wanted the good plywood or imported stuff. One of things I really like about this supplier is they keep quality supplies, so this was a rather big surprise. But I was really glad to see that they were offering both.<\/p>\n<p>Since this was just shop cabinet I went with the import after being warned it wasn&#8217;t very good. But it was $20 a sheet cheaper too. But you get what you pay for! I am not complaining, but compared to the what I have been getting this stuff is cheap! Lot of voids inside. poor quality surfaces, Not flat and I didn&#8217;t check but I don&#8217;t think the edges were square or straight.\u00a0 No way would I want my house cabinets made from this stuff!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/d2-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-189\" title=\"d2-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/d2-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/d2-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/d2-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/d2-2-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hate to waste all that work but I scraped the idea of making the cabinet from oak. I had the carcass finger jointed and ready to glue up yesterday but I started to realize that it was just a problem &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/20\/tool-cabinet-an-about-face\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cabient","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kudzupatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}