Kitchenette & Pantry Shelves for the DIY Off Grid Cabin

all right I've got uh a lot of shelving units that I need to install at the cabin I'm going to be making some out of some panels that are already glued up I've got some that uh I'm going to have to glue up myself and uh that's what I'm going to be working on tonight I want to get these done and ready so that I can take them with me the next time I go out to the cabin cuz I want to be able to install uh all of the shelves that are going to be in the kitchenet area as well as uh over where the uh electrical unit is so let me get to that we'll get as many of these put together as we can [Music] [Music] all right this one's going to be a little bit tricky because these boards are not perfectly straight or Square there's you know they're they're buted up nice on both ends I've got them cut to the same length but uh got this one is board is Twisted this one is CED and this one is cupped a little bit it's not that bad that's CED a little so what I'm going to do is I'm going to use dowels to connect these I'm going to try to keep them as straight as possible doing that so I need to Mark these where I'm going to put the dowels and uh going to put quite a few one more right there all right that's a lot of dowels so let me get those all drilled out all right so I've got my line here I'm using quarter inch dowels so I've got this jig here and I can just line up this white line right here with the line that I marked here and The Jig is going to automatically Center it on the board so this will get it in perfect alignment does a nice job and I just have to repeat that all the way down on all of my markings and uh the should fit together perfectly all right that was a lot of holes but uh using that jig it uh wasn't too bad it went through pretty quick so hopefully these will line up uh they should be centered pretty well I have a link in the description for this if you guys are interested you can see uh See the lines there that make it easy to line up and this automatically centers you can see how it moves in on both sides equally so yeah it's pretty nice little jig all right I've just got this dry fit right now and uh that's not too bad it's not perfect but I mean I'm using uh construction Lumber here but uh it's not too bad I can work with that I think I can uh glue this up get the corners cut out because it's got to go around the uh legs of the kitchenet this is going to be the bottom shelf I can get that glued up and sanded and I think it'll look pretty good okay [Music] I don't really have any calls I can use to keep this as flat as possible but uh I'll see if I can come up with something all right that's the best I could come up with but uh I think it's doing a pretty good job these are relatively straight and I think it's got most of the cupping and bowing out so well we'll let that glue up and we'll see how it does [Music] all right so I took everything out of the clamps and I measured using this piece here this is a cut off from the legs and I marked out each of the corners and I cut those out [Music] [Music] [Music] that [Music] [Music] all right so this is going to be the top of where my uh electrical stuff is and I've got two pieces here and I want to put a hinge so this piece will uh connect to the uh the shelving braces that I've already installed in that area and the thought is is that I'll be able to lift this up and because it's pushed out uh 2 in from the wall that it'll have a little bit of an angle and I won't need to uh you know use some kind of a hook or something to keep it in place I think it'll just lean back and uh and just stay in place so anyway that's a thought so I need to uh get this hinge attached all right all right I got the uh hinge on as you can see so I think that's going to work out just fine um I've got it's an inch and a half board that this is going to be attaching to uh it's just a 2x4 up against the wall and uh so I think there's plenty of room there to attach all the way down so I've got all of my shelves built now I've got this one which is going to be folding up and you know opening up into the electrical department and then I've got this one which is going to be the bottom shelf of the kitchenet and then I've got two more shelves that I'm going to be using in the uh Pantry area so the only thing I have left to do is to uh create this last um panel here that I'm actually going to use as uh a countertop and uh I'm just using one by material and what I'm going to do is once I get a cut um to the right size I'm going to double it up uh around the edge so it'll actually be uh 1 and 1/2 in thick all the way around the edge you know and I'll cut some uh some curves on two of the corners and I'll cut the uh sink out the reason I'm doing this instead of just using 2 by material is my sink needs to attach to a one by area and uh I guess I could use a router and Route out you know a huge section make it just uh 3/4 of an inch thick but I don't know I think this is going to be easier in the long run and uh the boards that I'm using here here they're they're not perfect I've got a lot of BOE in it and this middle one here is got is curved this way it's it's out about 38 of an inch from end to end I think I can pull all of that in but I'm not sure I'm going to get this done in time to take it with me to the cabin so this might be the end of this video or at least uh this part of the video but uh I'm going to I'm going to give it a try I'll see if I can get it done in time but uh I'm not sure that's going to happen