Using a biscuit joiner, standard power tools, and the procedures described and illustrated here, you can make sturdy, elegant cabinetry in less than half the time it takes for tongue-in-groove construction. “An efficient technique for making cabinets....Simple and there are plenty of photos.”—Woodshop News. “Outstanding deal for the relatively inexperienced woodworker...an excellent instructor....Recommended for all public libraries.” —Library Journal.
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To earn a profitable living, professional woodworkers must work quickly but still create a high-quality product. A furniture maker who wrote Sterling's excellent The Seven Essential Skills of Woodworking, Guidice here shows readers how to make a basic cabinet using commonly owned tools (the biscuit jointer is the tool that makes this quick-and-easy method possible). The basic cabinet design can be modified with doors and drawers to suit the user's needs (e.g., using plain materials for utility cabinets or combining two cabinets and adding short legs to create a hutch). This title is ideal for the relatively inexperienced woodworker because the materials are simple and Guidice is an excellent instructor; everything is well explained with a clear text and profuse color photos. Professional woodworkers could also benefit from this title because increased efficiency means higher profits. In keeping with the spirit of this book, the sections on tools, materials, and finishing are short but contain everything one needs to do a good job. This is Guidice's second outstanding book in as many years and is recommended for all public libraries.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Try an innovative technique for building beautiful and practical custom cabinets quickly, simply, and without error. This original method has many advantages over traditional ones: fast setup time, great strength and easy assembly. While you learn carcass and frame construction, as well as how to fit a drawer, you'll make a handsome general-purpose cabinet, perfect for any number of things, from workshop to laundry storage. Soon you'll have the skills to build any type of cabinet you like!
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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Good starting point for boxes,
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This review is from: Quick & Easy Custom Cabinets (Paperback)
This is an excellent text if you want to build plywood carcased cabinets with a biscuit jointer. The approach is for those with a few basic tools, like a table saw, and a biscuit jointer. Screws are used in the place of clamps in most instances. The book wrings the maximum out of these humble means, and the author's logic in coming up with the system he has, is very keen. On the other hand, the results while neat enough are not up to current standards. Guidice maintains these methods are the backbone of his professional shop, a claim that is hard to credit either in terms of efficiency, or results. On occasion, throughout the book, methods of low efficiency are suggested, methods that leave a trail of ugly plugholes. Often these methods make sense, because they keep the system described in the book accesible to those with only the basic tools. In fairness, however, when compromises are being made that are not efficient or clean, that fact should be noted and explained Guidice, a woodworker who has appeared several times on the cover of a national woodworking magazine, has produced here a book with barely a single piece of attractive furniture illustrated in it (and furniture is illustrated). A unique achievement. I am not being picky, nothing here would grace even the amateur gallery of a woodworking magazine. Nonetheless, the methods described here could form the basis for a home cabinetmaker to make some nice boxes, quickly. That's a worthwhile, moneysaving subject that this book covers well. This book is in some ways the flip side of Guidice's Seven Essentials. No dovetail saws here, but a solid approach to any panels of plywood you may have lying around
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Well illustrated but ugly projects,
This review is from: Quick & Easy Custom Cabinets (Paperback)
The upside of this book is that the step-by-step instructions are very detailed and leave out very little. If you need to know all of the basic steps to building cabinets then this sharply illustrated book is great. The photographs are excellent quality.The downside is that the cabinet designs are about as ugly as they can be. The author uses wood plugs all over the place and many of the projects are more clunky looking than a battleship. It would seem that there were be eaiser ways to hide some of the fasteners than to just cover them with plugs.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Quick & Easy Custom Cabinets (Paperback)
If you are new to woodworking or are just trying to learn easier methods of constructing cabinets, this book is for you. The book starts out examining traditional methods of building cabinets and then goes on to show how the biscuit jointer can make that much easier. Then he walks you through building a full cabinet using the techniques he described earlier. The only thing I didn't like was there are not enough measured drawings, but that is a very minor complaint.
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