Reaching out to all woodworkers, this is an exercise in knowledge:
How would you build this vanity? Its a simple cabinet, with a 7/8″ x 1 1/2″ face frame, flat sawn white oak. inset stile and rail flat panel doors, and miter folded sides, scribed to the wall.
How do you go about building this? What’s your order of operations? What tools do you use most?
It’s never a bad idea to retrace your steps, even for basics, and it doesn’t hurt to ask yourself how you might do this.
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Buy a book about making kitchen cabinets. They have step by step instructions.
Build the boxes. Cut some scribers. Make the face frame. Place, scribe, face.
Once again (my previous post was deleted for some odd reason), this is an obviously AI-generated new post and as such it should be deleted.
Does this sound like a real person wrote this?
"How do you go about building this? What’s your order of operations? What tools do you use most?
It’s never a bad idea to retrace your steps, even for basics, and it doesn’t hurt to ask yourself how you might do this."
Hey so this wasn’t ai at all, if you read my previous stuff it’s not either!
I just built a vanity for work and felt like my methods were rusty and I wanted to ask people what they were thinking
How do you go about building this? My answer would be: make the boxes, keep them square, build face frame and ensure square, glue boxes, biscuit frame to carcass, miter fold sides, mill door stock 2-3 times, run through shaper, leave oversized, glue up, sand to thickness, blah blah etc.
Not an AI post, I know it sounds robotic, also not looking for a “how-to” just wanted to have people share their thoughts or tips
What is the purpose of AI posts? What do they gain.
I never thought this was an AI post, personally.
The thought crossed my mind for a moment. It is a weird post.
I think you would be better off mentioning you made this for work and are rusty in the OP as that gives this a purpose beyond an apparently totally random question about a random sketch.
I worked in a custom cabinet shop for 3 years back in the 80's.
Our process began with the face frame, fully dowelled, which was the foundation for the assembly. Tongues on the cabinet sides fit into grooves on the frame. The bottom fit into dadoes cut into the sides and the frame. The back fit into grooves in the sides, reinforced with hanging strips top and bottom.
The thought of making a box and fitting a frame to it seems backwards to me.