Introduction_____
Yep, I took the upright apart and I'm going to take the pieces from the full size cabinet and make a cocktail cabinet out of them. You might be wondering why I would demolish a full size cabinet, well, the short answer is simply due to size. Full size cabinets are heavy and not meant to be moved very often, in the short time that I've had mine, I've had to move it no less than 6 times. That may not seem like much, but almost every time I've had to move it, I've had to move it up and down stairs, which is not fun in the least. In fact, my last place of residence, I lived on the third floor. I'm sure you can imagine how much fun it was to move this thing up and down three flights of stairs. Plus, I'm going to be moving again soon and who knows how many stairs I'll have to move up. I figured this would be the best time to do this project since I actually have a workspace here. Now, for the actual project.
Week 02: Sawdust Everywhere_____
For this (extended) week, I started to cut out all of the pieces that I would need for this project. Nothing terribly fancy about this process, I used a jigsaw for all of the cutting and did it all in a nice and small (don't forget unventilated) basement room. I'm still blowing sawdust out of my nose. The cutting went more or less alright, I got all of the rounded corners sanded down to a nice and smooth texture.
I searched all around town for a place that sold motherboards with no luck, I didn't want to order one online since I wasn't positive that a new motherboard would even fix it and I wanted to be able to return it in case it didn't. In the end, I fixed it the Apple way, I went and bought a new computer. Got a good deal on an HP slim computer that is better than my 6 year old machine, it also came with a 19" flat panel monitor. Anyway, that little story has more to do with the cocktail cabinet than you may think. My old monitor used by the now broken tower is a 24" widescreen CRT behemoth, since we got a new monitor with the new computer, I get to use the old 24" one in my cocktail. That's the monitor there in the picture sitting next to my mostly busted computer. Much better than the old 15" I was going to use and already cut the hole for, so now I have to cut the hole to fit the new monitor.
I also planned to start actual construction this week, and I did, to an extent. The first step is to construct the base of the cabinet, move from the ground up if you will. I gathered my pieces required, lined everything up, and then started to screw in the wood screws. This is when I ran into my first major problem, the wood started splitting.
My guess is, the wood is old and actually not in that great of condition, it is over 5 years old after all. This means that I'm going to have to go buy another sheet of plywood, something I really didn't want to have to do.
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