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I did a lot of research prior to building my own kitchen cabinets earlier this year and this book was what inspired me the most as Udo’s Schmidt’s cabinets are simply BEAUTIFUL encompassing many custom details like: mitered corner returns, beaded inset face frames, raised panel doors/drawer fronts, dovetailed drawers and arched mullion glass upper cabinet doors.

He basically sold me on the KREG pocket hole jig as he explains quite thoroughly the ease by which you can use it to not only screw together the face frames, but also to screw the face frame on to the cabinet carcase and also to screw together drawer boxes. Schmidt also covers how to use biscuit joinery to help with aligning the bottom edge of your face frame to the bottom of the cabinet so that you don’t have an annoying ledge scraping your arm when cleaning or getting objects out of the cabinet. His coverage of making the mullions for arched upper cabinet doors is worth the price of the book alone! I would caution against using the same router bit that you used for the stiles as the diameter is a little too wide except for an absurdly wide mullion – use a standard cove bit instead. He also covers how to build dovetail drawers (come on, you know you want them…) with the katie jig although you can do the same with the STOTS dovetail template master for much less money.

This book will NOT give you exact dimensions on all of the cabinets that you will have to build for your kitchen. Very few cabinetry books do this with the exception of Danny Proulx’s excellent book. The formula for calculating the raised panel door rail is incorrect but very EASILY recognizable by anyone with any basic algebra skills (rail width=total door width-(2 x stile width)+(2 x rail tongue – usually 3/8 so a total of 3/4)). If you want custom dimensions quickly, I would highly recommend getting a copy of ecabinets and learning how to use it. Cutlist plus (at LEAST silver edition) is also very helpful so that you don’t waste too much stock.

Finally, if you are seriously considering building your own kitchen cabinets, be prepared to invest in some decent tools: contractor table saw with sliding table attachment or a eurekazone cutting guide or festool rail guide, biscuit jointer, power drill, kreg pocket hole jig, two routers (at least one that’s 3hp for raised panels), a random orbital sander for face frames and raised panels, an HVLP gun for clear finishes or an airless if you’re going to be doing painted doors, a circular saw for cutting pieces down to more manageable pieces, an impact driver for installation, a jig saw if you’re going to be doing arched raised panels and a jointer and a planer to prepare rough stock (this is a major time eater along with finishing!!!) and a dust collector and respirator mask. STRONGLY consider prefinished plywood or melamine to save some time in finishing.

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