I’ve made an outdoor garden storage cabinet in our carport. We had an area in our carport that was just filling up with garden tools and garden paraphernalia. I wanted to tidy this area up. I had some pieces of poplar and some free plywood I had obtained that I used to make the cabinet. I made the sides and top out of rail and style frames. The back is a sheet of 1/2-in plywood. I made a base out of a frame of poplar that the whole cabinet sits on. I attached adjustable feet to the base so I could keep everything level as the floor of the carport slopes away from the house for drainage. I also made a top out of the scrap pieces of poplar.
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0:00 (introduction)
0:54 (side panels)
7:51 (top and bottom)
11:57 (doors)
12:42 (base)
14:49 (top)
17:19 (shelves)
22:20 (painting)
24:52 (installation)
30:00 (handles)
33:09 (conclusion)
41 Comments
Enjoyed the video. Thanks for sharing
Really nice cabinet!
Is it actually okay that the entire weight of that cabinet and all of its contents is held up by the threads of those four foot screws … ? I'm not a woodworker, but that seems like a lot to ask of some screw threads.
Love the video, Frank. Also, not sure what’s going on, but I can’t get your website to come up. Keeps getting redirected to another site. Anyone else having that issue?
Frank, so good to see and hear you again 🥰🥰🥰 hope all is well in your life.
The filmmaking just keeps getting better and better
At first I thought the handles were headless cats! 😆
Your grand theory of woodworking makes me feel better about my woodworking. I hope to be as accurate and good at design as you are one day!
May be over kill but would be gorgeous
Love the fight with the doors cute got to love a cabonet with carictor😅
This would be about a 2 month project for me.
Frank, I love your work and the videos are both informative and entertaining but those adjustable feet at the front of the cabinet are killing me dude. Why oh why aren’t they on the inside of the base frame?
Great video thanks for sharing
Man those long sleeps on your table saw gave me anxiety!
I absolutely identify with your Grand Theory of Woodworking. I started my working life as a toolmaking apprentice at Ford UK in 1967, and was still using the machine shop when I retired in 2004. So, I joined my local Menz Shed because it had a decent machine shop, and through that, I discovered a love of woodworking. However, I still find it frustrating that not only can I work to the same tolerances, but the dimensions I do achieve might be annoyingly different a day later. The movement is even more annoying, but I have discovered things stay much flatter and square with jointed frames. What I really enjoy is combining the two interests by making things for my home shop. I have a quick release vise based on the Pask Makes design, but mine is rather splendid, if I do say so myself. Of course, metal is not immune from warping, so I machine joints and assemble with recessed cap screws rather than weld. That was essential with the vise that has long round stock, that slides in bushings, so has to be perfectly parallel.
Frank, why is it that every time you use the radial arm saw, you cut 'toward' you? Does that not make it want to climb up onto the wood and launch toward you (or simply jam up)?
Finally, a piece from you I can understand.
You did it! The most complex cabinet build on the internet! Haha looks great!
Beautiful and utilitarian project!
Welcome back.
Very nice construction for a storage cabinet. But very much fits the shop too. The adjustable hinges are clever, but wondering if them sticking out like that won't be a problem sometime.
Ahh who am I to 2nd guess? It's up to the client's expectations & wishes, so all is good. 🙂
I can only join the chorus. I truly enjoy your videos ! I enjoy your easy soft going narration, the well thought out graphics. and the NEVER tiring train of stuff going into place by itself. Thank you for your inspirational videos.
..hey, if you pause @3:51… anyone else can see the stylish statuette of a woman sitting on the tablesaw fence and holding her hands on it like a cowgirl would do, if she sat on the fence of a ranche watching the things… at first I thought it was one of your neat montages
Wonderful video and superb grand theory, Frank. Thank you, Sir
Good project !
I like your " oh it's free plywood !" 🙂
Very interesting thoughts on the comparison of metal machining and wood working 👍I enjoyed that!
Oh how I have missed your productions. Glad to see them again.
How it started: "Woodworking is inherently imprecise"
How it's going: "The cabinet is so airtight the opposite door opens if you close one too fast"
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I really enjoyed hearing about the thought you're putting into the sequencing, and the more philosophical implications of those decisions: why try to impose unnecessary control (by attempting to pre-measure every part precisely) on a medium that inherently rejects such precision?
I love to surf, and I tend to relish the unpredictability of the waves and lack of control I have out on the water. My purview of control is limited to myself, and how I react to a shifting and inherently uncontrollable medium. I find a lot of peace in that.
Thank you for sharing this sturdy piece and your thoughts in making it, as always, Frank.
Other wood theory name: The Theory of Just Good Enough. The effort and care you put into videography is self-evident.
Thanks, Frank
15:26 would be fun if in one video, right after you've resawn a piece and inspect it, you shout out WHAT THE– followed by an abrupt scene cut and normal continuation as if nothing happened 😀
Great work Frank, both in woodworking as in videoworking 😀
Well Done 👍👍👍👍👍
At 13:45 – The base datos are being cut on the radial arm saw. Frank is just "eye-balling" the alignment of the board to make each dato. Frank mentioned at the beginning of this video about his "grand theory of woodworking" and these cuts are good examples of that theory of how woodworking woodworking isn't precise the way metal machining is.
What you're alluding to is referential measurements, not specifically exact measurements, but an overall idea of where you want things to be.
Nice, Frank.
You were the very first You Tuber I ever watched many years ago when you built your workshop, Frank, and it is always a treat to see a new project videoed by you. Thank you. Being a thrifty soul myself, I enjoy seeing you use recycled materials for this storage unit you made to tidy up that area of your home.
Fantastic demonstration of "overbuilding", as I call it in 3d modeling, where you worry only about one detail and give yourself room to precisely cut away the excess. A core concept that is not often discussed
I think woodworking is more ancient and more inherently imprecise than metalwork machining. By nature woodwork is imperfect and not uniform, as is nature; the source of wood is imperfect and chaotically not uniform. I work with wood in a small, high end shop every day and I wouldn't ever want woodwork to be precise in the way that machining is. To work with wood and give the illusion of perfection is the real trick. I've watched your projects a lot and I enjoy your videos alongside your work, I hope you continue to produce content and crafts.
We aren't aiming for perfection. We are aiming for the illusion of perfection.