Project: "Making Euro-Style Frameless Cabinets"

Beth moves the guide rail and saw to the next mark and cuts again.
	With the first panel section completed, Beth double checks the measurements against the cut list. She also has a page of labels that the Cut List Plus program generates.
After checking and double checking the measurements, Beth affixes the self-adhesive label onto the cut section. The insert shows the particulars.
	With the first section cut, double checked and labeled, Beth moves the guide rail down a bit and makes the second section's cut.
Beth continues to measure, set the guide rail. cut and label. In no time, the pieces are cut.
	Beth checks to see that all the parts have been cut.
Beth uses the label to remind her which panel is which. She has set the edge banding machine on her work surface. It uses a very hot air gun to heat the adhesive right before it gets pressed against the edge. She just moves the panel slowly across the fence.
	Here is the edge bander close up. The lowest arrow shows where the edge banding material enters the guide. The 2nd arrow shows where the hot air is blasted at the edge banding. The next arrow shows a rubber drum which pushes the hot melt strip to the side of the panel. The uppermost arrow shows a heavy gage steel plate. This helps cool the edge banding.
I have a number of hand tools for trimming the edgebanding. This one is a guillotine cutter designed to cut the ends flush.
	While the hand tools work fine, I setup my trim router with a pattern bearing bit. It does a beautiful and quick job of cutting all the white trim to be flush with the panel. It is easy to run on the four sides of the panel.
Beth has clamped the back and one side together using the Jet jointer clamps. The arrow points to the white trimmed edge. This is the back on the left and the side on the right — a construction method that Danny Proulx describes as full width back. Instead of fitting the back between the sides, this full back allows for better butt joinery. The ends have both been edged so the finished product has an "all-white" look. Of course this side would not normally be seen.    We will take up from here for next week. This will include: drilling the series of shelf holes, drilling the 35mm cup hinge hole, and, of course, joining the sides, bottom .... everything, together.    As I read this, I had a chance to check Danny's book — in the rush of getting this done, I did not follow his book. The next step was supposed to be drilling the shelf holes — before assembly, of course. Thankfully, there was no glue used.