Trent Flemming - EZ Kitchen Cabinets

This thread was originally posted on SMC by Trent Flemming. It is here with his permission.

I wanted to show off my kitchen cabinets that I built using EZ tools.
I have never built cabinets before, but when we decided to add-on to the house and increase the size of the kitchen, I knew I wanted to make the cabinets. My wife, 2 boys and myself performed all the work. The beam and integrated support you see in the pictures is where a brick wall once stood. We removed 25' of brick wall and inserted a laminated beam and then covered it with red oak. In all we added 11' x 36' of space. The cabinets are made from birch ply, popular and red oak. The drawers are full extension blum tandem and I wanted to make my dovetails to pop. So the backs are popular and the sides are red oak. The dovetails were made on the woodrat. Before I started the remodeling project I was on the hunt for a cabinet saw and happened upon Dino's EZ tools, due to an ebay ad. After some reading I bit the bullet and never looked back. I had a benchtop table saw that I sold one week after receiving my PBB. I really enjoying showing off my cabinets and then telling people I did it with a circular saw.

Quick list of the major tooling used:
PC 325 mag on my PBB
Woodrat utilizing Dewalt router
Bench Dog router table with a Freud router
Dewalt 12' compound miter saw
Jet 6 jointer
15" Craftsman drill press (I got at a incredible price due to Sawmill creek and a Sears screw up)
Powermatic 100 planer (at first I tried a rigid lunchbox planer, but it didn't have the umphh and all my wood was in the rough)
Kreg Pocket Hole system
Google Skecthup

Thanks for looking,
Trent

Von Bickley Posted:

Great looking work......

Burt Wadell Posted:

Trent,

That work is beautiful. The EZ equipment is the best way I have found to make cabinets. It almost seems to be to EZ.

Again, Great work.

Burt

Randal Stevenson Posted:

Hopefully this will soon get in the jobs done by the EZ guys thread. Great job.

Dino Makropoulos Replied:

Randal, Done.
Hopefully this can be posted on many forums.

Trent, very nice.

Larry Strawson posted:

One word "Awesome!"

Did you take some video or step by step photos?

Would like to see some

Larry


John Schreiber Posted:

Nice work. My wife is going to see those pictures. That should increase the odds of me buying my system soon.


Jim Mumford Posted:

Trent -
It is absolutely beautiful and inspiring work. I like the laminate tops also....no stone to haul out of there the next time the kitchen needs an "update" in 15 years or so.
-Jim

Dik Harrison Posted:

Wow! Great job!

One question, it's obvious what you think of EZ, but what is your opinion of the Woodrat?

Paul Greathouse Posted:

Great looking Cabinets Trent. It's hard to beat Red Oak for classic beauty. I've built 1 kitchen and 3 bathrooms with the EZ so far.

Trent Flemming Replied:

I really appreciate the compliments. Thank you.

Larry - I am horrible about taking pictures or documenting. I looked for some pictures but only found a couple that weren't worth posting. Sorry.

Dik - I like the Woodrat, it was a bit expensive but I got mine used on Ebay. You can dial in the dovetail fit to an amazing degree. It is also nice to make evenly spaced dovetails on any width piece and be able to leave half a tail on each end of the piece. The people over at chipsfly seem to have made a newer version called the Router Boss and looks to be a nice machine. With that said, I have never used another dovetail machine, so my experience is biased.

Off to find a new EZ project!

Trent