Gathering Materials
After coming up with a rough design, I had to decide how to build it. The rest of the cabinets in my garage are simple plywood carcasses with a door edged in hardwood. I could go this route though I have doubts as to whether the strength of that construction would be sufficient as I am planning to densely load it up with lots of tools, mostly metal and thus it might need to hold a fair amount of weight. Also, I would like to try a new method I have never tried before and will write about in a future post. So I decided on building the cabinet mostly out of hardwood though I will still used plywood for the back panel of the main carcass and the panels within each of the hinged doors. I could go to my local LoNards Depot which has three or four types of hardwood priced extremely high and individually shrink wrapped in plastic. I could order the hardwood online which gives me a bit more control but is still pretty high priced for "shop furniture". In the end, I decided this pro...