Okay, we are just now marking this back for our cabinet we’ll cut this to size before we glue this together. This is the defining moment of our project right here because if this doesn’t fit, we go back to start. We’ve done what I call a dry pit here we’ve assembled the sides and the top without any glue, just to see if our mirror back is going to fit. I am also using a stop block on the drill bit which will prevent the drill from penetrating too deeply into the cabinet side. In order to make sure the holes that we drill for the adjustable shelf supports are properly aligned and evenly spaced, I am using a drilling guide that I made from a section of 2 x 3. This, or something like this, we’ll use for a keeper and it’s just about the way I want it right there. Now to make sure that the rabbit that we cut in the back of this door frame is deep enough to accommodate this glass, I am going to test it here on a piece of scrap. Then on all four sides, we cut another rabbit, which will hold the mirror in the back. Then it’s just a matter of making repeated passes through the saw until the notch is completely cut out. We set the height of the blade so that it only cuts through half of the board. RON HAZELTON: Yeah, we could do a butt joint, but the rabbit joint is stronger, it gives us 50 percent more glue surface because of the shoulder right here and it’ll help a lot in aligning these two pieces of lumber when we put this together.
JOHN LANZETELLA: Ron, couldn’t you just butt the two ends together without that? And then we’ll glue, we’ll glue this in place. This is called a rabbit joint right here, and this, so this is this side, and the top is going to set in, just like that. For the narrower cabinet doorframe, we use a push stick to feed the wood through the saw, this way our fingers stay well away from the blade. Now when you cut with the grain, we call that a rip cut. John and I cut all our frame pieces to length and then we rip each board to the same width. Like this, slide it very gently up to the block push it into contact here. So John, what we are going to do now, is set this in here. A simple jig attached to the saw’s miter gauge will do the trick. To make certain the cabinet is square, we must cut opposite sides to exactly the same length. This is going to be 36 wide, 24 high right? Now what is really important I am going to cut these down to their final lengths is that the two sides are exactly the same length and that the top and bottom is exactly the same length. Okay, I’ve rough cut the lumber to the matchings here. RON HAZELTON: Perfect workbench, perfect, sturdy.
JOHN LANZETELLA: Yeah, my wife picked it up at a garage sale for $25. RON HAZELTON: Okay, John, I’ve got your drawing here, hey I love this, this is an old metal desk right? JOHN LANZETELLA: Yeah, oh yeah, out in the garage. RON HAZELTON: All right, you got a place we can work, set up a shop? JOHN LANZETELLA: Yeah, six inches, seven inches at the most. RON HAZELTON: Okay, so what do you think, something that comes out maybe six inches like that, big enough for the cars.
SMALL CURIO CABINET WITH GLASS DOORS TV
We are going to go to a big screen TV so we need it to be about probably a good five feet off the ground. Ron, this is the spot I was thinking of right here. And it is just impossible to dust these things, you know, and that’s why I am looking to build a wall curio or some kind of a display case so that they pretty much stay dust free. JOHN LANZETELLA: I’ve been collecting cars and car memorabilia for approximately 30 years and over 30 years time, I mean the collection just grows and grows and finally it gets out of hand. All these cars are turning the Lanzetella house into their garage. But I had no idea it was in upstate New York. RON HAZELTON: You know, I always wanted to visit Greece.
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