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[Screwdriver]

Many years ago I decided to try having two dishwashers. Pull stuff straight out of the clean, use it, bung it in the dirty. It didn't work, still ended up with either two full dishwasher (either both dirty or clean) and a sink full of dirties. Anyhow, to do it I chopped a regular Ikea Varde unit in half so I could fit them both into one single unit. Two full cabinets with a half a cab in the middle.

Now I need a matching full unit to balance the kitchen "design" so I had to remake a drawer...



Circular saw "track" for chopping up some old plywood I have amassed.



Upcyling or recycling has it's downsides. This piece used to be a builders shed.



Not a disaster but plenty of work needed to make it (re)useable.



Neat trick for making rebates, rabbets etc. is to score a straight cut then just keep going through the layers. As a bonus, this old stock positively falls apart anyway...



Drawer front needs some fairly technical details to install the correct cam lock fixings.



Real oak veneer edge banding or it will look like shite (tho it might anyway.)



The results are sort of ok but the plywood was so fragile, you just had to looks at it the wrong way and it would chip and fray.



Bit better once it's sanded down and varnished. Bit of a shock when it turned orange!

[Screwdriver]

I really needed a specific thickness for the rear panel. This was all I had.

The inside of this ply was dry, hard and crumbly. I nearly gave up but needs must.



Lots of glue, PVA and hardening resin, plus a few tin-tacks.



Proper Frankenstein creation but I just painted it until it looked err, painted... It is the back piece in the picture after this one.

The drawer front turned out lovely. Shame about the orange!





The Frankenstein ply is at the back. Hard to believe what can be dome with nasty old wood.



It's in, it's done and it looks ok. I may change the top for a thicker slice of worktop. Maybe even fit a marble slab.

You can see where the bottom shelf was once sliced in half. I lost the kerf, hence the spacer.



Bit of a kitchen revamp now that the area has been cleared out to the binstore. Next step, the lounge and hopefully, sooner rather than later. the MotoGP Shed will be getting a huge makeover. Including the installation of a Bridgeport milling machine...

[Yambo]

Nice one.

You may want to pull out the drawer in a couple of months time and check for small piles of very fine sawdust.

Plywood can be home to a little boring insect, even IKEA plywood.

[Screwdriver]

Nice one.

You may want to pull out the drawer in a couple of months time and check for small piles of very fine sawdust.

Plywood can be home to a little boring insect, even IKEA plywood.

Thanks, with the amount of glue in the Frankenstein piece, I wouldn't be surprised to find some larger chunks jumping ship over time.

All I have is a fairly large collection of old plywood. Might be an idea if I use some sort of insecticide now you mention it.