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Thanks for that comment Bob, yes I did think of facing with a deeper profile as you suggested, and I think it would look better, then I thought of the times in the past when a shelf has got damaged and you want to turn it over and have a fresh side up! - hmmm... decisions decisions!

I'll face the shelves with an oak strip - got loads of off cuts from the drawers so I'll plane them to size and use maybe 3 little dominos in each and glue them in place. Just been thinking about that today actually and trying to work out whether to rout in a little detail along the face or...

I went for Movento, I think they are Blums latest runners - since I am making in frame drawers I also added the optional depth adjustment which gives the 4th dimension of adjustment. Not cheap though! Here they are fitted in one of the cabinets:

Thanks for that Giles, yes I ended up doing the same on the drawer above - tenon saw and chisel, it felt a bit crude but its unseen.. Ive just made the one drawer and fitted it to get a feel for the complete operation - I'll now do the remaining 20 in two or three batches, Ive just been...

Ive got a basic small Leigh jig that I bought off ebay, just getting to grips with it and have made first drawer box, I tried the three different modes of operation - through dovetails, half blind dovetails and single pass half blind dovetails - Ive decided to use the latter as it reduces...

Ive been laying some old reclaimed Mahogany floorboards that look like the timber you have pictured - I was told they were 'Cuban mahogany'.... and they are as hard as nails!

I got 4 off 3.3m Lengths from this place linked below - Ended up buying the lights finished in red oxide, they had it in stock so ijsut took it away there and then. It seems they have sites all over the country. I bought Bessey pipe clamp bodies from the US - got here in 3 days - couldn't...

Doug, yes i plan on using Blum runners - just bought a single set to have a play around with - I see they say a maximum thickness of 16mm for the drawer sides in their blurb - my rough stock is around 20mm so I can take it down to what I like - I guess one advantage of staying closer to 16mm is...

Cheers Andy - I bought a secondhand Leigh jig - basic one, been having a play with it and it seems easier and quicker to do blind dovetails rather than through dovetails on it - bearing in mind I will be afixing plant on fronts - I guess it doesn't matter what type of dovetail is used - do you...

About to start making the drawer boxes shortly, what do folk use as the 'standard' sort of sizes - both in terms of thickness of material and relative heights of sides and front back? I'll be making them from rough sawn oak which I have already bought in, I'll dovetail them using a jig - need...

Apologies for late reply, I designed it on paper although if you have access to a CAD package and are proficient with its use then that would I am sure be a better way. You can see my paper drawings on Island in last pic :p Just had the worktop guys in to template and they used a digital...

Thanks guys for the comments! - I've not been able to do much this last week as Ive been up on the roof renewing the lead flashing alongside a parapet wall and around two chimneys - hard work climbing a tower and scrambling around on a pitched roof all day - looking forward to get back to the...

Thanks for the kind comments robump, just feeling my way really - I know what I want to achieve and I'm just working out how to get there along the way! Here's a pic of the island with the fluted pilasters attached - I used dominos to attach the two fluted panels together to form a 90deg pair...

Making the fluted pilasters which will sit at the corner of each cabinet. Made a little sled to locate and guide the router for each flute and made a little ramp at each end of workpiece to raise the cutter out of the timber giving a tapered look to the flutes rather than an abrupt stop.

Made and fitted some of the more complex face frames over the last few days. Some pics!

Been machining up the more complex face frames today. The beauty of using dominos and the Kreg beading system is that the dominos locate the joint in one axis and the notch that the Kreg system produces locates in the other plane, this makes clamping and gluing up a lot easier as the joint pulls...

Had a go at fitting the face frames today, went a lot easier than I thought. Used dominos again and turned out to be a very straightforward process.

Cheers Doug - its really satisfying to be making stuff! I'm working out how to machine the flutes as I want them to taper out as they finish rather than come to an abrupt stop, I think i will need a ramp that the router or workpiece rides up on towards the end of the cut - anyone got any...

Hi Sammy - its the smaller bit - Kreg call it 1/4" - to be more specific its 3/16" radius with 1/16" quirk giving a total of 1/4". So its a small detail, and in my eye looks about right for smaller cabinets such as kitchen units - if I was doing a wardrobe I would use a bigger size. I did think...

So I've made a start on the face frames - doing the simpler ones first. Using domino's and glue to hold them together - the domino is a great little device for this sort of thing simple to use and a nice strong discreet joint - I enjoy using it. I took delivery of a Kreg beaded face frame jig...