This is a curious project. In a free pdf issue of Popular Woodworking Chris Schwarz describes a build of the iconic nail cabinet hanging in Roy Underhill's shop on his popular TV show The Woodwright's Shop. The cabinet is described as being found at a yard sale and made from a pre-built crate and shop scraps. The detailed drawings provided in the article have inspired many to build near exact replicas, at great cost. I choose rather to be inspired by the spirit of the original, and use a crate (from Systembolaget of course) and shop scraps, and to use the project as an exercise in repetitive work (18 drawers in mine!) and new skill development (the mitered panel doors featured in a previous entry).
Hardware from China didn't break the bank and arrived in a timely fashion.
The repetitive cuts required for this project were a good excuse to try out this contraption from Wolfcraft to mount a jigsaw upside down that I'd found a few months ago (at my favorite flea market of course, nearly complete and new, just missing a couple of nuts and bolts).
Shop scraps: some 8mm hardboard from who-knows-where and 4mm birch plywood off-cuts from a canoe project finished years ago.
The first cuts were pretty promising. My Bosch saw mounted right onto the attachment, and the sawbench served admirably (if a bit low) as a base.
I kept a handsaw handy to do quick crosscuts.
Stacks of drawer sides and bottoms. I'm going to have to give this gadget a thumbs-up for this type of use. Cutting each of these pieces by hand would have been a major hassle, and this set-up allowed me to have everything ready in an hour or two. It's the kind of product that's easy to laugh at, but as a substitute bandsaw for apartment dwelling you could do a lot worse.
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