| [GMCnet] New Aluminum Overhead Cabinets [message #260074] |
Mon, 25 August 2014 20:05  |
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Look for a local woodworking guild and post a request for someone to build cabinets for a GMC on their news letter. Do the same at the local high school if they have a woodworking program. You just never know who/what you might turn up, Cabinet shops are usually into production boxes with fancy fronts. That is where they make their money. They are neither jigged up for or experienced in building things that fit a curved space. Furniture makers are. Unless the cabinet unit itself is trash, have someone just make doors and drawer fronts for you. You can always paint the carcass and with properly made new doors your interior will shout out - good stuff!
Jerry
Jerry Work
The Dovetail Joint
Fine furniture designed and hand crafted in the 1907 former Masonic Temple building in historic Kerby, OR
Visitors always welcome!
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http://jerrywork.com
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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 15:07:17 -0600
From: Kerry Pinkerton
Subject: Re: [GMCnet] New Aluminum Overhead Cabinets
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Well Jim, Aluminum may not be the best material but working with aluminum sheet metal is what I do.
I didn't build them to save weight, that's just a free benefit of the material. My old cabinets were junk and having new wooden ones made would cost
more than my aluminum ones. And that is IF I can find a cabinet shop willing to take on a small odd job with demanding specs that is not a typical
household configuration. I went that route last year and couldn't find any local job willing to tackle the overhead cabinets. The one place that was
willing wanted $1500.
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Kerry Pinkerton
North Alabama, near Huntsville,
77 Eleganza II, "The Lady", 403CI, Manny Brakes, 1 ton, tranny also a 76 Eleganza to be re-bodied as an Art Deco car hauler
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