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Getting back at it! This winter has been spent suffering every little damn ding the soft plywood could absorb from seamingly anything that even thought about denting the exterior surfaces of my cabinets. For this reason alone I'll never use anything softer for the exterior surface of the cabs than t...

super glue to the guides?... Ok, I'll do it, but will that soak in or something or is this just a surface treatment? I was also thinking of doing like a rubbing or tracing of each complete guide so in case i ever inherit a plasma torch I could cut out a metal template to inlay in the side, or even a...

Here's a close up of the channel with stops, FINALLY complete. The surfaces with the + sign are the only ones trimmed back with the bit shown. One one stack on the bench and the other on the table saw. They work really nice and now with the levels worked out, I think just painting the dowels and dur...

The bottom cabinets just got a coin's (1/8 inch maybe) thickness pellet cut to the right angle and surface glued on the front foot's location. As per quick foot template made from 1/8" ply. I marked one side top and the other side of it "bottom" to also locate the recesses needed. The...

I need to clarify my definition of garage... I believe that a garage should have at least ONE permanently installed 120volt 15 amp circuit. (with at least one up to code and grounded outlet affixed to building) I believe a garage should have a human access door besides the 50 year old heavy wood rol...

Nice work!

Thanks to both posters, I've got an idea now... I think I'll permanently attach a small chuck of the 1" dowel on the bottom fronts and drill / route small recesses on the top sides to catch the feet. Like lego blocks but upside down. I'm also kind of liking the clean look of no protective corne...

Thanks for the compliment but the mad professor is stuck. When I got the second level cabinets on top of the first ones to mark that second notch with the same spring board and such... I discovered that I hate, hate, hate the corners that I bought in bulk from speakerhardware. Not because they aren'...

Other experiments that didn't work out great stuff as an internal brace... Yeah could be done but the little pieces of wood work fine. Now if for some reason the dowel didn't sit nicely in the horn/side of cabinet groove due to crazy paddle bit performance then I could see squirting a line of it in ...

On the interior brace for the dowel I was thinking about tracing the exact shape I'd need from the bottom of the cabinet and all and really dreading doing more bastard saw work with those curves when it dawned on me that all I needed to worry about were the two angles of a little piece of wood that ...

Now that we have the hole started in the dowel we can take it out, finish the hole and drill just bigger for the barbed insert. Mark the width on the same surface you drilled from so you can see it when positioning over table saw. How many times I marked it and then had the marks facing the table sa...

The steps I figured out go like this: Draw a center line for the dowel. Then mark a distance from the bottom of the grab hole so you can be consistent with selector placement over all the cabinets. I tried to go 4 inches down for the first set and the 3 inches on the others to give me more real-esta...

Wow what a day, I've got all my slots and stops cut on the two lower speakers and the "retracted" and "level" slots cut on the number 2's (flat arrays). Took a bunch of pictures and I'm trying to sort out how post it all. There is a process...Lots of careful steps here, like remo...

See you just get stuck some times in your thinking... You are right and I was fixated on the channel being as narrow as possible, when that doesn't matter. The channel even though off set from the ideal clamping location relevant to the dowel can be an inch wide, it doesn't matter as it's only a pat...

Yep, I'm with ya on that... I was just trying to explain both my ideas on the possibilities. If one were going to have the tightening down action of a knob to locate in the main slot and then tighten it down at the desired extension, then then like you say, you want it directly square to the side of...