Product Description Demonstrating how woodworkers can approach the complex job of designing and making built-in cabinets for kitchens, family rooms, and home offices, this technical handbook provides meticulously detailed shop drawings, instructions, and hundreds of professional tips for saving time, materials, unnecessary aggravation, and money. Bob Lang covers building traditional face-frame cabinets as well as constructing contemporary frameless Euro-style cabinets. Woodworkers will learn how to measure rooms and design fitting cabinetry that considers both function and aesthetics, how to develop working shop drawings and cutting lists, and how to work with materials as varied as solid wood and plastic laminate. Technical instructions for cutting and joining the basic box, as well as for fitting it to drawer stacks, sinks, corners, appliances, and islands, are also included, as are detailed steps for sanding, finishing, and installing each piece.
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Best of the best!
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The majority of books on cabinet making on the market are at best sub par. They usually cover the basics, and one will leave out what the other puts in and vice versa. You need an arsenal of books to get everything essential for beginners to start cabinet projects. I can safely say after reading and completing a set of cabinets from plans in this book, that it's all right here in one book. The descriptions, black and white photos from tools to materials to plans are very good. If this is a first book for you on cabinetry covering all the basics, I'd definitely start here. In fact, I've sold all the other books on this subject here on Amazon. This book is that definitive.
Great book on building cabinets and how to install them
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Like the previous reviews stated, it's a great book that provides notes and hints on all the minor details that other books takes for granted. The book provide the reasons why the author recommends doing something a certain way. Then you can decide if that is the best way for what you are doing it verses another way some other book is telling you.
Bob provides suggestions down to what size screws, type, etc to use in every part of the construction or installation. The advantage of pan head vs. countersink heads. It's these finer details that make the book an excellent book for reference.
Buy the book!
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If you have any interest in building cabinets this is a must have book. Well written, organized and detailed. It includes everything you need to know from layout to installation. An easy to follow explanation of how it's done from A. to Z. Bob tells you what works and what won't. If I could only afford one book,,,, this would be it.
Expert cabinetmaker
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Bob Lang is an expert cabinetmaker and general woodworker with a great deal of experience in both. He is a Senior Editor at Popular Woodworking Magazine, which is, in my opinion, the best woodworking magazine available. His projects are featured regularly in that magazine. This book is not only instrumental to anyone who wants to build kitchen cabinets, it also teaches and illustrates a lot of basic woodworking techniques. The principles contained here apply to all casework construction, not just kitchen cabinets, so this book is valuable for all woodworkers.
Building Cabinets
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The Complete Kitchen Cabinetmaker is not a book on the details of joining or operating woodworking equipment. But it does do a very complete job of providing an overview of how to design and construct cabinets. It is comprehensive and economical in its explanation of how to construct both face frame and frame less cabinets. The author provides you with his viewpoint. Others would have a different perspective. Nonetheless, I would highly recommend the book for those new to cabinet making and as a reference for more experienced woodworkers. It has many insights that are only gained through the experience of building lots of cabinets and I found those insights to be very helpful.
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