Well I went and did it.

[Barefoot1]

I went down and bought the wood for the kitchen. 17 sheets of 3/4 Red Oak veneer ply wood for the boxes, 4 sheets of 1/4 hickory veneered mdf for the door panels, 19 bd ft of poplar for the drawers and 55 bd ft of hickory for the face frames and stiles and rails. Guess I am committed now, or should be. I'll let you all know in about 3 weeks.

[scrolldog]

Thomas,
Good luck,make sure to post in progress and after install pics.
Hickory is one of my favorite woods,like the looks of the dark/light of the grain.

[Wood Dog]

Sounds like you got your Stimulus Check from our government.....good luck

[Huntter2022]

well looks like you will be busy for awhile

David

[Fremmed]

Enjoy the sawdust Thomas. Hope you have as many digits when your done as when you started (all attached of course). lol

[Pajaro]

WOO HOO new wood! love the smell of new wood in the morning. Keep us posted on your progress... 3 weeks?

[jigsue]

Thomas

Hope your kitchen comes along quicker than ours did. It took eighteen months of evenings and weekends to complete. One or two disasters and a couple of quite large "back to the drawing board" exercises.

Good Luck

Sue

[Barefoot1]

Thanks Sue, I am taking 3 weeks vacation to do this. We are doing demo this weekend, the electrician will be here Monday morning to do the lighting and the socket movements. We had the counter top guy here two days ago and will order early next week. The appliances are scheduled to be here the last week in June and we will set up the floor guy this weekend. The three weeks is to build and install the cabinets so I am hoping we will hit that. Since this is all new territory for me we will see. i have a friend that works for a local cabinet maker and he has done the design, all the drawings and cut lists and will be available for advice when I get stuck. I have spent the evenings this week learning to make stiles and rails and learning to use the new 12" Porter Cable dove tail jig to make half blind dovetails, which by the way was much easier than I anticipated and they came out looking rather nice. I still need to break out the pocket hole jig and give the a whirl but I may wait a bit on that as I still need to finish clearing the kitchen out today and tomorrow with my wifes help. Bottom line, huger project with quite a few players so i have done a project plan in MS project to keep track of everything. Yikes!