Hey all,
I'm completely useless as a handyman doing anything that requires wood being cut, and accuracy is dreadful, and I have no idea where to start.
Well, I've wanted to improve my skills, and decided to give it a go. This one is 600w x 600h x 445d, for the simple reason that it allowed me to get top, bottom and sides from one cut from each of 2 pieces of 1200x445. Used 'whitecote' board for the back, tacked on with cotter pins, sides are all dowelled, glued and screwed, tracks are nailed (bottom) and screwed (top) on. The thin bits the tracks are attached to I could not get in melamine, and didn't want more cutting, so bought pine strips and used iron on melamine to finish them.
I do have a few things to do - ventilation (by way of kitchen drainers in the backboard), buy the glass doors and put in a couple of light fittings. Thinking I might just go 2 ceramic ES fittings and not bother with a strip fluro, and just use a spot basking heat lamp and a fluro UV screw globe. I wasn't sure what screws to use, and these are chunky heads so I might also just get some of those little white things you can stick on screw heads to hide them.
Accuracy wasn't too bad, although I needed to do a bit of sanding with the long strips the tracks mount on, and I tend to round the corners.
Not fantastic craftmanship, but I'm stoked with it for my first attempt!!
Next time I might just buy all the wood cut for me from a kitchen maker, and just screw, not dowell and glue.
