Last winter, my husband Mike wanted to try his hand at cabinet making. He looked at so many different cabinet plans but could not find something to build.
Space is a premium in our small woodworking shop so when he asked for a woodworking router table system, a bench top router table was the best solution.
Eagle America offers two bench top router table systems.
Kreg Router Table or a Freud Router Table
Yes, these are smaller woodworking router table systems but they get the job done!
Now, back to cabinet plans. Mike never found "the one" perfect cabinet plan to build so he designed his own.
Mike was able to use his stile and rail bits and many of his other Eagle router bits for his cabinet project. While he was building the cabinet, it was exciting to see the majority of his woodworking clamps being used all at once.
In the end the cabinet he made will become a family treasure.
Not bad for a first effort.
Working here at Eagle America one question I hear more than any other is" where can I get that information"? I hear it in our outlet store, I hear it on the phones and I see it in emails. No matter what the woodworker is trying to do, setting up dust collection, looking for band saw accessories, questions about shaper cutters, any woodworking accessories that is new to a woodworker them we get questions about that item. Another thing we hear a lot of is, I am interested in one of the Kreg pocket hole jigs which one should I get? Or I am building some cabinets which set of stile and rail bits should I use? Which one of your router bit sets is the best for me? We do our best to answer all the questions we receive within 24 hours.
Did you know we have tech support available where we will take your question sent to us via email to us at tech@eagleamerica.com and pass it to our one of our woodworkers that we have on staff?
Don't they look knowledgeable!
Well back to the question, where can I get this information?
You can find just about anything...
....ON THE INTERNET! 
There are thousands of website dedicated to woodworking. Places where you can ask questions of your peers or ask professionals like The Wood Whisperer's website.
You can find just about anything you need right here. They have a community where you can access blogs and forums where you can ask questions that will be answered by many people that are just woodworkers like you that want to help their experience is there to help you. Also in their community they have photos of the member's projects. Not to mention many videos that Marc Spagnuolo (The Wood Whisper) does showing how to do certain things or projects start to finish. You can also find Marc's work on You tube talk about a video library that you don't have to buy! You can also find many different woodworking groups that have joined the community, maybe you belong in one of these groups? Do you?
And of coarse what true Wood Whisperer member doesn’t have a Wood Whisperer hat and T-shirt. Well don’t worry you can get these items and more at the store. I should get a free t-shirt for this blog don’t you think?
There is a live chat room where you can discuss your project or anything woodworking related. You can even watch projects being made because there are dozens of people/workshops that stream live video to the site for you to watch.
This is just one site of the thousands of woodworking sites out there on the world wide web. So if you have a specific question maybe we can help. Or if you are looking for a place to go to learn and pick up some tricks of the trade and meet some woodworkers maybe The Wood Whisperers website is where you want to go.
No matter what you are looking for, the Internet can be the best tool in your workshop.
Attention woodworkers! If you love your router and router bits I have some exciting news for you. We have an AMAZING sale going on now on our famous "
Build-A-Sets".
Our website lets you
build your own door construction sets. It is quick and easy to use and from now thru 6/22/2010 you can save up to 35%! You can make a 3-piece set that consists of your choice of stile and rail bits and a panel raiser or you can make it a 5-piece set that includes both a glue joint and drawer lock bit. These cabinet bits will allow you to make beautiful raised panel doors for your kitchen or office cabinets.
Click over today and save, this sale doesn't last long.
I love the web...and I love what the web can do for woodworkers. As much as I like our
Eagle America woodworking catalog, I like
our website even more. It allows us to have a conversation with woodworkers in a way no other medium can duplicate. We can tell whimsical stories on this blog, we can post friendly updates on our
Facebook or
Twitter pages, we can send you
weekly updates via email...the possibilities are almost endless.
What woodworking tools would you like to see star in our next movie?
The web also allows us to educate our customers by providing much more detailed technical information thru the use of video. Woodworking videos are an area that I am very excited to expand upon in the very near future. Currently you can find video from us in 3 primary locations:
Product Pages - The VIDEO tab on our product pages will appear when a video is available
Video Listing Page -
EagleAmerica.com/Videos will always point to some form of a video index page so you can quickly review what is available.
YouTube - For you YouTube fans out there, we have our own YouTube site! Simply go to
YouTube.com/EagleWoodworking for our latest and greatest.
Finally, I want to pose a question to you. What would you like our next Eagle Original Video be? Feel free to email us or leave a comment here. Some ideas:
The options are endless, let us know what YOU want to see!
I am very excited to announce a new feature on our website. As of today you have the power to build your own Raised Panel Bit Door Sets at
EagleAmerica.com!
The perfect way to give your home or office a facelift is with a new set of cabinets or at minimum new cabinet doors. We are
"The World's Router Bit Source" so you know we have the router bits to get the job done. Be they
Eagle router bits or
PriceCutter router bits, we have more designs and options than anyone else. However until now, when ordering cabinet bits online you had to do it a-la-carte.
Well times have changed! Instead of us telling you what should be in your router bit sets, you can now tell us what you want and need!
Click here to build your own door set today! It is a quick and easy process with just three steps:
- Decide which brand of bits you prefer, Eagle America or PriceCutter
- Decide whether you want to order a 3-piece or 5-piece set
- Decide which type of panel raiser you want to include in your set
That's it! Then you click on the appropriate set part number and add the stile and rail bits and panel raiser of your choice to your set and checkout. Quick and easy, just how I like to shop.
Enough reading about it -
click over and give it a try! We look forward to hearing what you think about this great new feature.
I got a call one Thursday evening to go over to my in-laws for dinner. When my wife and I arrived, we sat down and had a nice meal. During the meal, my wife's aunt, Teresa, mentioned that she wanted to add kitchen cabinets on an open wall in her kitchen. The problem was, she could not find anything to match her existing cabinets. My wife immediately volunteered me for the job knowing I have all kinds of cabinet making tools!
After dinner, we stopped by Teresa's house and I took a few measurements, made a few drawings and made sure that Teresa was happy with the design.
The following Friday evening, I figured out what the total cost for the job would be and called Teresa to see if it was acceptable. She gave me her approval and I was off and running.
Early Saturday morning I was at the lumber yard hand selecting my material and by noon, I was back in my shop cutting everything to size.
Kreg pocket hole jigs have to be one to the best woodworking accessories you could have in your shop. I used it to build the cabinet's carcases and face frames all within a hour.
I used my woodworking router table with Eagle America's stile and rail bits to make the door and drawer frames and a 3-wing raised panel bit for the panels. It really helps to have some type of router height adjustment on your router table. I use a Jessem Master Lift and love it!
The edges of the door frames were finished using Eagle America's roundover bits. I figured I could use this project to showcase my talents as well as some of the cool cabinet hardware that is on the market so I used ball bearing drawer slides with Blum Blumotion accessories.
When it was completed, I took the top and bottom cabinet's over to Teresa's house and installed them. My wife's family was so impressed, I started getting more requests to repair, refinish and build things. But you all know how that goes...
Eric
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