Drawer slides are expensive. Do this instead.

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Retired cabinetmaker and what impressed me most was that beautiful distributor's showroom and stock. That's what I imagine cabinetmakers heaven looks like.

🤿Great video! So glad you found us! No need for secret passwords - we sell to anyone. We also have glue, sandpaper, drawer pulls, hinges, and drawer slides.

We are always learning from others so here's a share. As in your case for drawer slides. Use strips of laminate. Glue one strip to the underside of your drawer bottom and one strip to the upper side of the rail in your cabinet casing. The drawers will slide smoothly and the laminate is a very hard wearing material. You will unlikely need to replace it in your lifetime 😃. You can go as far as doing both top and bottom of the rail. This reduces drag for when your drawer is pulled far out. Excellent workmanship.

Really cool that the local lumber yard guy did the little skit thing for the video.

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CABINETMAKER TIP: If you’re using a trimmer with a flush cut bit (trimmer bit with the bearing) and you’re not adding the edge banding after laminating the top, add a piece of masking tape twice around the bearing. Line up the edge of the masking tape with the edge of the bearing closest to the blades of the bit, wrap it around the bearing twice and then trim off the excess). The bearing should spin freely but you’ve given yourself about a mm of overhang on the laminate that you can then file down to a nice chamfered or rounded edge without digging into the edge banding.

There's so much character in the video--the build was stellar, but the narration and editing were my favorite 🤿

That duct tape trick is peak best practices, man. Thanks for sharing that detail 🤿

No one has any right to bitch bout this video - the man told you what it was about and then made a bloody good job of doing it. For me, the draw slides make more economic sense due to the price of petrol here vs the extra weight of the wood - but that's a classic Opex vs Capex decision. Top job, mate.

🤿I'm just a young, 73-year old, apprentice woodworker who is willing and eager to learn. Your videos are hugely entertaining as well as massively informative. I watch them all to the end and have already learnt so much.👍🏻 Bravo, sir.

One thing I've done instead of slides that worked: skateboard bearings. You can get 100 packs for $20 or so. They're low quality for skate boarding but should work great for sliding drawers. I used 6 bearings per drawer (3 per side) because they were super deep, and screwed them right into the side of the drawer with a washer for spacing. Buttery smooth drawers. If you used 6 per drawer, that's only 200 bearings for 30+ drawers, so should be less than $50 total. The rest of your build could be mostly the same, just size the tracks to accommodate the bearing diameter, leaving room above so they rotate freely. Good tips in this video, going to look up some plywood companies in my area to see if I can find something better than big box stores for some upcoming projects.

30 minute commercial for a track saw. I'm sold. Geez. :D

🤿 60+ female, no woodworker here, and your cabinets are fabulous! Enjoyed the video to the end!

A laminate trick my dad showed me was to take a candle stick and rub the edges where the bearing will rub. The wax keeps the bearing from burning the laminate and can be cleaned off when you're done

I will probably never build anything out of wood- but loved watching this. My dad built our kitchen and bathroom cabinets in two houses when I was growing up. (He used a file to get the edge off the laminate-took some time...). Anyway, two years ago we had a major kitchen reno and our contractor reminded me of the way daddy would have built things. The cabinet company's video was also like that me thinking if daddy was alive, he would have done it like that. In your video, I kept thinking how much my dad would have enjoyed watching this. Love it that someone put a bunch of time stamps on some really good points. Even though the things I watch are usually sewing or crafting related, I could still get good out of this. (this is great videography!). This method of drawers (btw, in the midwest it's pronounced more like "door" with an "r" in there). This method of drawers could/should have been used in inexpensive chest of drawers that used the bottom center hardware, that is now broken and the drawers almost fall out. I have a couple of small chests (one is a library card catalog cabinet) that the drawers stick and I'm going to try wax, and then, if that doesn't work, I am going to try to find out what that tape is that was mentioned and where to get it. Also- when we did the kitchen, there were a couple of pantry cabinets that the GC ordered without the shelves and he MADE the shelves and some are adjustable and others fixed. One of the fixed ones is for my kitchen aid mixer and it is HEAVY. I love it that these 3/4" shelves are not going to bow and sag. He also trimmed the front edge of the shelves-- (another thing daddy did.). I thoroughly enjoyed your video and the only thing that slightly worries me is if you get another flood- even of minor proportions-- the idea of those cabinets being ruined b/c of being in contact with the floor- scares me. I have never been scuba diving but I did find that that is where you find a snorkel being used.... 🤿

A couple laminate tips from someone who works with a pro. First thing you want to do is tape the edge your bearing will ride along before you route. 1-2 layers of masking tape is fine. Step 2 is to cut your material a little closer to size. you never want to be cutting more than half the diameter of your router bit. (i.e if you use a 1/2" flush trim, never use it to trim more than 1/4" of material) it also helps to use bits made specifically for laminate (but they can be kinda pricy) the last step is to either use a laminate file to remove that last little bit, or a "no file" laminate but in a trim router. (this is my preferred method. it's easier, and gives the tiniest radius to the edge so its not as sharp)

As others have noted, the marks on the edge banding is from the router bit burning the laminate. I worked in a cabinet shop in North Carolina. The way we prevented this was by brushing on a thin coating of Crisco shortening before routing laminate or edge banding. It's super quick to brush it on with a small chip brush and easy to wipe it off with a rag and acetone. Keep up the good work. 👍

I don't have a talent for woodworking, nor do I have the time to practice. As a DIY homeowner with zero credibility, I am very impressed with this project and considering attempting something like it in the future. Taping the seams and hiding them behind the cabinets is totally 🤿 something I would do! What a time saver! I t would probably look worse if I tried to mud and tape it anyway. 😬😬😏😏🤣🤣 Cheers!

I used to work at a professional cabinet shop in Texas and we ordered lots of sheet goods from the plywood company. They are awesome