Cabinet maker?

[tommy240842@...]

Hi Pete,

If you are going to employ a cabinet maker, unless you can find an old
retired guy who does it as a hobby, be prepared to pay dearly. I have just
about
finished a 70" wide by 31" deep by 25" high cabinet for our galley in our
1981 35' footer. I gave Tom Seitz my dinette, because we just need more
storage. Pictures to be posted when it is completed.

I am building the cabinet at the AFB hobby wood shop under the supervision
of a master cabinet maker (he runs the shop), All I had to buy are supplies,
and pay a user fee of $3.00 an hour, and have just about $400.00 in it now.
If I had commissioned OB (the cabinet maker) to do it, he said it would run
about $2500.00. We think diesel mechanics are high priced? His hourly fee is
$150.00. I am just glad I can do this myself and have this facility to do it
in. BTW, I am NOT wood worker and could never have tackled it without a
cabinet maker's supervision.

The other option you have is to go to Lowe's or Home Depot and see if they
can order "ready made" items. I was amazed at what they had available, I just
didn't like the price or how they looked.

Didn't mean to sound discouraging, but I could not believe how much custom
work cost, and I am pretty confident that on the West Coast it is not going to
be cheaper.


Tom Meservey, USN (Ret)
'81FC33' Naval Weapons Station, Goose Creek, SC


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