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These are the cabinets I built for my shop. The plans are from the “Modular Shop Cabinets” article in American Woodworker, January 2005 issue.

BEFORE:

AFTER:

Here are some pics showing the construction progress:

Click here to learn more about how to make the shop-made drawer pulls. I then built the upper cabinets, again from the same AWW article. Here is the final result:

The upper cabinets were a lot simpler to complete than the lower cabinet, and the construction went a lot quicker. Once again, I’ve learned a lot from this fairly simple project. This was my first attempt at frame & panel door construction, but it all came together just fine - a lot easier than I anticipated. Here are some more pics:

I used the same shop-made handles for these cabinets:

The biggest goof I made was that I forgot to cut grooves for the shelf standards before I glued up the carcasses! So, I just notched out the ends of the shelves to fix the problem:

According to the AWW article, that open section in the middle cabinet is to display your hand tool collection. Well, OK… here ya go: