Video Transcript
Introduction
It's a glorious day here at Cabinet Joint. My name is Justin, and in today's video, I'm going to show you how to assemble your frameless wine storage deep unit.
This video will also cover the assembly of your regular wine storage unit as well.
This is a pretty straightforward install, but it's a little bit different from the rest of your frameless cabinets, so make sure you pay attention. On the screen are the tools that you'll need.
Chapter 2: Tools and Supplies
Once you have all those tools, we can get right into this assembly.
Chapter 3: Assembly
All righty. So, first things first, you're going to want to locate the dowels that come with your project.
Once you have them located, you can take your shelves and put a dab of glue in each of those dowel holes, then fill those holes with the dowels themselves.
You notice here I'm using Titebond Speed Set because this is a white-matching interior cabinet. You can use Titebond II, no problem at all. If you do use Titebond Speed Set, just be aware that it does have a very fast dry time.
So, I put the dowels there, and then I needed to grab my mallet just so I can give those dowels a little extra influence to fit in. It should be a nice, tight fit.
Then I'm going to put a little glue on the other side and repeat the same exact thing. You should have these shelves with dowels on both sides by the time you're done with them.
I'm going to repeat this step on each of the shelves. I'm not going to show all of that in the video, but I'm just doing the same exact thing, this repeated process time and time again.
With these shelves, it's important to notice that there are going to be two that have this rabbet groove on the back, versus the others that just have a flat back. As you can see here, it's important to determine which two those are, because those are going to be your top and bottom shelves.
Once you have those found, you can take your cabinet side and place a dab of glue in each one of those dowel holes as well, as I'm doing here. It doesn't take a lot, just enough to get a good bond with those dowels.
I'm putting a little glue in all of them, as well as putting glue down this center groove here. That is where your back panel is going to slide right in, so make sure you get a nice bead of glue in there as well.
Once you have glue in all of those places, you are ready to start installing your shelves.
You will want to install your shelves with the edge banding facing toward the front of the cabinet. There will be one side that has edge banding and one side that does not. Have that edge banding toward the front.
I'm going to place all of them like so.
This is where I have that rabbeted piece there on the bottom, and you're going to see how that groove works out with the back panel in just one second.
I'm doing the same thing there on top, making sure the open end of that groove is facing toward the inside of the cabinet.
Now you can see I have my back panel in, and it slides into that little center groove that you put glue in a second ago.
Now I'm very carefully putting just a little bead of glue here on the edge of the back panel. With it being ¼" thick, it's hard not to make a mess, so be careful as you're doing that.
Then I'm also going to put a dab of glue on top of each one of these dowels that we had already installed.
With all that glue, I'm ready to place my other side panel on.
It's worth noting, too, that I'm doing all of this on a padded surface. I recommend that with any cabinet you build, especially any that has a flush end.
Now comes the fun part of lining up all of those dowels with your dowel holes. This may take a second to get everything lined up.
I recommend starting on one side, like starting on the bottom as I am here, and then working your way up, except it looks like I'm doing the opposite here. I'm lining up the top, but you can see how I'm fighting myself by doing that.
So, I recommend starting at one spot and then making your way all the way down, lining up all those dowels.
You can see now I'm starting on one side, working my way down. I'm grabbing my mallet here once again just to help me out a little bit and save my wrist from smacking the side of the cabinet.
Everything is lined up, and now you can see it's all sitting nicely into place as I go and do that.
Then, once everything's together, I'm going to lift my cabinet up, and I can take out that padding because I no longer need it.
Now, the final step is going to be to clamp everything up and make sure that everything dries real nicely with that wood glue.
These clamps are a little big. These are a little overkill. You don't need ones this big, but just something tight enough to keep everything squeezed together. Make sure all the joints are tight by the time they dry. That way, you have a beautiful cabinet once that glue is all dried up.
With it being Speed Set, I only need to let it sit for about 30 minutes or so. But if you have Titebond II, I'd recommend letting the clamps hold everything together for approximately 2 hours to dry.
Once everything's clamped up, I'm also going to take a wet rag and clean up any glue that may have seeped into the interior of the cabinet.
We don't want to see that, and we don't want it to dry up in there. So, make sure you clean all that out now before it dries up.
That'll be your final step to building your frameless wine storage deep unit. And that's all there is to assembling your wine storage deep unit.
Chapter 4: Conclusion
Like I said in the video, I recommend using Titebond Speed Set glue if you have a white interior like this. If you don't, just make sure we're cleaning up all the glue right away, because chances are it will seep into the inside.
So, clean up right away, and then you'll be good to go.
If you have any other questions about this cabinet or anything else, you can reach out to your cabinet coach or call us at 888-211-6482.
Thank you for watching. Have a great day.
