Hey everyone it's Dylan from the Black Forest
Wood company we're back again for another week here in the shop this week we're showing you
guys another cabinet build so this one's a little different it's actually a dining room
cabinet this time instead of a liquor cabinet it's all solid figured maple with our tinted resin
and then we've got a solid maple carcass on it right now we're actually getting everything packed
up and charlie's just doing final quality control inspection he he's uh he's making sure everything
looks good for the client you guys can see we've got everything lined with foam right now so a
little different than the video you just saw this is just to protect it during shipment and
then we've got all the crates we're going to get it loaded into and this thing's heading all
the way down to new york city so again a lot of effort went into this build a lot of effort went
into this video so it would mean the world to us if you guys can just drop a like leave a comment
let us know what you think because we had a lot of fun doing this john just finished these pieces up
this is for the cabinets we're going a little bit thinner and it's all getting kind of this like
transparent resin it's the color effects black right here we're just gluing up the back of the
cabinet uh we're using biscuits they're not so much for strength but more so for alignment since
we're only using I think it's four-quarter or six quarter material here we don't have that much
room to lose so those biscuits just make sure that when we put it through the sander everything's
gonna be nice and flush me and my best friend it says nothing yeah you and your best
friend you're my best friend too thank you I love you um thank you back to you affirmative sir yeah sir okay I love you daddy so now what john is using here is our big
triple drum sander so it actually what you can't see is there's three drums inside there
and it goes through three grits in a single pass so right here we've got 120 150 180 so it's
going in unsanded coming out sanded to 180 and then we just have to do our hand sanding
one thing I will mention even though this sander stands to 180 i would still recommend
starting your hand sanding at 150 because drum sanders are usually a lot more aggressive now what
we're doing is applying the stain on here so this isn't actually the finished coat that's going to
protect it this is just the stain to give a maple to give the maple a nice dark colour our client
didn't want this left natural because it would be too close to the colour of the doors
so we're just putting this black stain on here we actually forgot to put a bevel on
before we put the slide-out trays together so what you see here is us doing it by hand
something else kind of interesting about our cabinet construction is there's actually no
glue used in the joinery to assemble the carcass so we do have sliding dovetails but
everything just is such a tight fit that we don't need to use any glue all
we do is assemble everything put two screws in the outside and then plug up
those holes and it works very very well what we're doing now is cutting up that piece
that you saw support at the beginning so this is going to be the front of the cabinet and these
cuts have to be perfect because if we're even off by a little bit it's going to ruin the whole
alignment now john is putting in the sauce hinges so he's got this really really kind of neat jig
that he's built up here and it just allows us to put the router on the doors and the side of the
cabinet and have everything line up perfectly this is the finishing process for the doors
so we do have a video that explains our full finishing process so i'm not going to go
into too much detail but essentially we go 1101 first that's the extra thin followed
by pollux and then finished off with ceramic so this is the big reveal here we've got the
doors finished we've got everything machined for the hinges and we're putting the doors on
uh in the finished state for the first time it's always kind of a big exciting moment for us
in the shop because there's there's probably about a hundred plus hours that go into one of these
cabinets so to even get to this point is a lot of effort we're finally done our most recent
cabinet, uh this one is figured maple on the front with the tinted resin and then the
interior is also maple uh the whole carcass is solid maple no veneer used on here we've got
the mirror in the back as you guys can see we have got the sauce hinges on there as well
looking really good this one's also a little different in that it's not a liquor cabinet for
once this is actually a dining room cabinet so all of our clients uh nice dishes china and crystal
are gonna go in here and it's actually headed to new york city so we'll get this thing shipped
out this week and then our client this client's really good about sending photos so hopefully
we'll get some photos of this thing in place well we're just about done getting the cabinet
packed up it is actually in two pieces as you guys saw so we're gonna take the top off the top is
going to go in this crate right here um so we've also got the shelves in the bottom that's what you
see stacked in there and then the guys over there they've got the second crate that's just going
to be for the bottom of the cabinet so we'll get everything packed up and then it'll probably be
three or four days and it'll be in new york city this client usually sends photos too so if we
do get photos we'll make sure to include them in next week's video charlie doesn't
come with the cabinet unfortunately
