Product Description

Building Frameless Kitchen Cabinets" is a complete building textbook for 32mm European style kitchen and bathroom cabinets.This long awaited book details design, hardware, joinery, 32mm system design, edge banding, cabinet doors, as well as full color photos and illustrations on uppers, base units, corner and tall cabinets. The full building and set up system is explained in detail!

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Decent information        Rating:

Do not kid yourself; the 32mm system of cabinet building is very complex. It was designed as a way to standardize cabinet construction and to use mass-production machinery.

Translating this to the smaller shop and making use of standard tools is not easy. It is an unforgiving system where all holes and measurements have to be PERFECT or it fails.

It also turns out that there are deviations in the standards and the way builders interpret them.

While this book certainly is valuable and gives a nice overview, it is short on the details small shops or home-owners really need. For example, the attachement of drawer sliders and the use of different drawer mechanisms is glossed over.

Get the book, but be prepared to spend a lot of time researching other sources. I ended up with some really nice projects, but it weren't easy, as they say.

expected more        Rating:

This is one of the few books on Frameless cabinets. I expected more content but the book did not satisfy me.

Good information, but ....        Rating:

Mr. Prolux is certainly an authority in 32mm cabinet design. If you look for information you should be able to find it somewhere in this book.

The main problem is weak structure of the book with boring repetitions of what was said just a couple of pages or paragraphs ago. Good writing should keep you wanting to turn next page all the time, regardless of what the book is about - this one doesn't!

Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with information in this book, it's only the amateurish structuring and general style of writing which gets in the way. So content - 4 stars, style, structuring - 2 stars.

All in all mediocre 3

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