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The One Book Every Cabinetmaker Needs to Own
Build any cabinet imaginable, in any size, and with lightning speed. All you need are common workshop tools, a sheet of plywood and this ingenious book.
The Complete Cabinetmaker's Reference is the Rosetta Stone of the woodworking world. Its worksheets unlock the secrets of efficient case construction because author Jeffrey Piontkowski has done all the hard work for you. He shows you in just five easy steps how to build any one of 23 cabinet styles - from simple base cabinets to pantry cabinets to file cabinets:
- Pick the style and size cabinet you need and flip to that page.
- Cut your pieces to size using the cutting list and the plywood optimization charts that show you how to waste as little material as possible.
- Cut all the dadoes and grooves shown on the 3D exploded drawings.
- Assemble your cabinet using the step-by-step photos as a guide.
- Build any doors and drawers using the book's detailed and exact instructions.
About the Author
Jeffrey Piontkowski runs a cabinetmaking workshop and builds movie sets.
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Complete Reference?, Mar 8 2006
By David C. Brayton - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The Complete Cabinetmaker's Reference (Spiral-bound)
I think not. This book covers European style cabinets (no face frame) exclusively. But the author covers all types of cabinets (vanities with drawers, without drawers, upper and lower kitchen cabinets, pantries, entertainment centers...). The author provides detailed cutting lists and dimensions for building cabinets with 3/4" sheet goods (primarily melamine).The author provides 2 pages (total) for door construction. On the first page, he describes making doors where the core of the sheetgood is exposed. Not even the cabinets in my garage are of such low quality. I would never, ever build a door that looks like this. The second method for door construction is to add a band of stock around the perimeter of the door and flush trim it.
If you are looking for instruction on raised panel doors, look elsewhere. In fact, if you are looking for instruction on any method that would produce doors similar to what's seen at Home Depot, you need to look elsewhere
All of the procedures described by the author are easily tackled by the weekend woodworker. But the author leaves so many things untouched that I would highly recommend that you take a look at another book such as Jim Tolpin's books on cabinet making.
Having a reference source like this in the small workshop could be extremely beneficial. I wish there was one for face frame cabinets.
33 of 37 people found the following review helpful
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This book fills an important NICHE..., July 6 2006
By Frank Shic - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Complete Cabinetmaker's Reference (Spiral-bound)
...namely for all the people that flunked out of elementary algebra and can't figure out how to size cabinet parts for themselves. Do yourself a favor, save your money and buy either udo schmidt's, jim tolpin's or danny proulx's books on cabinetmaking as they provide much more useful information beyond cutlist and assembly instructions. Keeping in mind that a standard wall cabinet is 12" deep and that a standard base cabinet is 24" deep and that both are often 30" high (excluding toe kick), you can EASILY fill in the rest of the dimensions by downloading a PDF file on cabinet dimensions from any of the major cabinet companies like merillat or mill's pride but in general most of the widths are in 3" increments beginning with 12" and up to 48". You can easily replace this entire book with the innovative FREE ecabinets program from thermwood.
24 of 27 people found the following review helpful
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Don't Waist Your Money!, Dec 22 2005
By J. T. Kleso "rarebear" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Complete Cabinetmaker's Reference (Spiral-bound)
I am very sorry I bought this book..It has several drawing that they repeat a dozen times each and they change a table at the bottom of the page to list the sizes of the Part A,B,C ect ect ect
Where one page with a drawing and two or three with tables would have worked just fine but if they did that they would not be able to say 160 worksheets when there is only a dozen or so..
They also say every cabinet you need, I Think Not...
Not Waist your money for a few pages of instruction and a lot of hype..
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