28 June 2020

Camper Kitchen Cabinet build progress


Camper kitchen cabinet progress is slow. Every glue-up is an overnight drying event as it's so cold in the workshop at the moment.

The cabinet will eventually feature an upper-left shelf with hinged door, a lower-left deep drawer, upper-right end-pullout drawer designed to fit a 45L 12V fridge, and lower-right end-pullout drawer. There is space to mount a small camping sink into the surface on the upper-left if I get that far. A portable camping stove will always sit on top as the 45L fridge compartment has no spare space to inset burners.

The bench top veneer (shown in the pic with the belt sander mounted vertically) is something I found on a pallet at work several years ago. It was a bottom layer protective sheet that's throw-away. I've used it to cover the rough ply I found on a pallet at work (same thing). I edged the ply with pine trim as shown below. 20mm thickness lets me round-over the top with a router.

I've used dad's biscuit joiner on every...single...intersection...of...every...single piece. It's been a slow glue-up job... Sometimes pieces were put in after-the-fact and ended up with biscuits inserted into the side of the join instead of the face as the tool doesn't always access the orientation you might like.

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