Executive summary:I've been telling people on the guided tours that I would build some drawers and a cupboard under the counter in the galley. Time to follow through.
In kitchen design, there's a lot of talk about the "Kitchen Triangle." Ingredients go in and nothing edible comes out. No, wait. That's the Kitchen
Bermuda Triangle.
The Kitchen Triangle has to do with the placement of the stove, sink and refrigerator near to the food prep area. Unfortunately, those great thinkers forgot a very important fourth feature: the Trash Can. I don't know about anyone else, but when Chef Telescope cooks, there will be trash created. On my second outing, I more or less secured a tall kitchen trash bag to the hitch receiver. That left the trash bag on the ground where a certain person had to stoop down to put anything in it. Therefore, the Kitchen Quadrangle is born.
DrawersAt the Hill Country Gathering, one of my fellow campers brought some hunks of cedar timber for firewood. I rescued several chunks for the drawers.
First, resaw to a usable thickness. In this case, a half inch thick. It took two cuts, one from each side.
First cut:
Turn over for second cut:
Using half-inch instead of 3/4 lumber gives me an extra half inch inside length & width in the drawers.
Voila', wah-lah, walla:
Cut to final size and take 'em to the CNC to cut box joints:
4 drawers * 4 sides * 2 ends = 32 cuts. I did the joints for the Yeti tray on the table saw. The CNC was much faster and easier.
Note the corner relief radius at the bottom of the notches.
That corner relief allows the square face of the "finger" to set all the way to the bottom of the notch. Some glue and some clamps, and you get this:
Sand everything flush, done.
The next step is to build a framework for the drawers to fit into:
I used pocket hole screws for joinery.
After measuring once and cutting twice, it all looks like this:
I had a bunch of tambour slats left over that I ripped down to 1/4" thick and glued to the front of the drawers.
A set of clearance-priced drawer pulls from HoDePo finishes up the look.