Knowing what it feels like to be able to present your wife or family members with beautiful, unique, hand-built wooden furniture and cabinetry, without having it made by a master woodworker but by your own unskilled hands may be easier than you imagine. And you can begin your woodcrafting education by constructing some very simple, but functional, woodcraft cabinets.



By beginning with a simple design, you'll be less likely to get discouraged at your mistakes--and the chances are good that you'll make a few. The first thing you should do before starting your woodcraft cabinets is to find a work area which is well lighted and which you won't mind getting covered in sawdust.

The Materials You'll Need

When you've found your spot, you can assemble you woodcraft cabinets material. For the purposes of this project, they will include:

One 5? x7? plywood sheet

Two 3'x 7? plywood sheets

Two 3'x5? plywood sheets, and

Three 2.5? x 7? plywood sheets

Four hinges and two door handles, with wood screws

A hammer and nails,

Sandpaper, paint, and varnish

Just by reading this list of materials you probably have formed a fairly accurate picture of the woodcraft cabinets you will be building.

Before you begin on your woodcraft cabinets you'll have to measure the spot in which you intend them to be permanently placed; the dimensions of their location will, naturally, determine the dimensions of the woodcraft cabinets. If you are just building a practice woodcraft cabinet without regard for where it will be used, stick with the plywood sheets on the list. Otherwise you can have plywood sheets cut to size at your home supply store.

Building Your Woodcraft Cabinet

Your largest sheet of plywood will function as the woodcraft cabinets? backboard, to which you will perpendicularly nail the two 3'x7? sheets using between four and eight nails along each edge.

Two of the three 3'x5? plywood sheets will next be nailed to the top and bottom of your woodcraft cabinet with an adequate number of nails. The third 3'X5? sheet is the woodcraft cabinet's divider, and should be nailed in to it at the appropriate height for a shelf.

Your tow remaining sheets of plywood, the ones measuring 2.5'x7?, are meant to provide your woodcraft cabinet's doors. Attach each of them with two of your four hinges to opposite sides of the cabinet's opening. They'll have wood screws included when you buy them For more info see `http://www.allthingswoodworking.com/Woodcraft_Furniture/ on Woodcraft Furniture

Then add your door handles, again with wood screws, and you'll have finished a serviceable, if simple, woodcraft cabinet with a shelf and working doors! You can even paint it to give it a homey look.

Granted that the woodcraft cabinets you will produce from this plan are extremely simple, but they will be functional and also give you an idea of what woodcrafting is about. You can build on what they teach you, and before long, be creating your own elegant, well-constructed woodcraft cabinets which will make your home the envy of the neighborhood!