Dry fitting Microwave Cabinet in Real Red Oak

Matched profile and 1/2" rise cathedral arch
with trammel point guide before cutting stile
on band saw and shaping with our Powermatic
Shaper.

By the time the CNC programmer has sourced
an e-cabinet offset file to replicate, we've already
started shaping this door with 80.00 worth of
3/4 solid red oak.

Dry fitting red oak custom microwave cabinet for a client
needing upper cabinet modified to allow for
range sightline. We check our dry fit before
glueing up raised panels, because once ceramic
glue sets it never fails like carpenter glue sometimes
does.

The best thing ?  We had this cabinet and door set
shaped in under 1 hour on a Powermatic Shaper and the box
assembled in 15 minutes. The closest competitor
said it would be 7 weeks !!! Raised panel is the
most difficult cabinet face to make by far, straight
insert panels are a joke compared to setting router
spindle heights to within a thousandth with a micrometer
gauge. WE DONT NEED A 100K CNC router to knock
out two red oak doors and the waste of a 4 x 8 solid
oak panel would be crazy expensive. We also
take the time to MATCH GRAIN before cutting
a panel on a bandsaw, something that is overlooked
by the mass production bigbox suppliers.

And, we also take the time to put a proper door lip profile
on the red oak doors, something you don't see with
the off the shelf crap doors at Depot. Open a box
and take a look inside and see what you get is our
suggestion. You get an oak "ply " door with a 2/16"
veneer facing, not solid oak.

You could give Kitchencraft,Kraftmaid or Masterbrand cabinets
$850.00 plus tax and customs fees and wait 7 weeks for two red oak
custom sized  doors or you could give us your order for less than half that
at $415.00 (including box) and we'll have it installed in 1 week !

You become a good woodworker through repetition on
real job sites and this is our 1952nd woodworking project
since 1987.!!! Most of the fences and decks you see in
Glen Abbey Oakville were built by my brother and I during our
time as college kids working our way through university.
The tools sucked back then, tools nowadays are amazing.
There were no Paslode or Remington drivers,no mitre saws, let alone
compressor nailers then, it was all done with square, circular
saw and hammer and nail. You pay the price in the hot sun
and you learn to get them done accurate and fast or you
sweat to death in the Sahara that is Glen Abbey. Ever visited Glen Abbey or
River Oaks survey's , there still isnt a shade tree to
be found on Monk's Passage, Windrush or Old Abbey Lane. !!!
This is a big reason why people move to Burlington and Hamilton - trees !!!


Contractor Tip:

Notice the simple paper template for hanging holes
for the microwave, you don't need that ridiculous
template they sell at IKEA, just line up your paper
to the back wall and arrange piece and tape them in
place prior to drill up. Saves us alot of time on figuring
out where to drill holes