Last week I realized that I really needed to get the cabinet doors done. Most of the remaining parts are small drawer fronts, or small cabinet doors. The drawers have a slightly different design (1 & 1/4″ wide stiles rather than 2″ wide) and I wasn’t sure if I wanted to try and do all of it at once.

I bit the bullet, realizing that I have family coming this Friday for the weekend. I always blitz something right before family arrives. It’s a bad habit of mine, and Kylene tells my family to come more often, so I get things done.

The part of the weekend that I didn’t spend playing with Poly & Elizabeth, at work, watching 24, or at church, I spent in the garage. I finished cutting rails and stiles on Thurdsay night. Yesterday I finished cutting panels. Today, I glued all the doors, trimmed the excess from the rails, sanded everything twice (120 and 280 grits) and am throughly sore.

Oh yeah, and last night I made a down-draft table that greatly reduced the dust when sanding with the 120 grit prior to assembly. I drilled 790 holes on 1″ centers in a 3/4″ piece of MDF that I had on-hand. That took probably an hour of solid drilling (yeah, I made a template) and used up some scrap wood I had on hand.

I’m exhausted. I’m sore all over. And I have to be at work at 6:00 AM. Ugh. Tomorrow I stain. Tuesday I spray polyurethane. If I can do two coats in one day (wake up early tuesday, spray the other size late that night) there’s a chance I can get these installed by the time the family arrives.

It’s more likely they’ll be done, but sitting on the temporary work table in the garage.

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