Professional Learning - How cabinets are made, and how to restore them

Currently, I am spending my spare time working on restoring a sweet 1960/70's cabinet. There is a sliding door that needs to be replaced (because I sanded off the top layer of ply laminate) and a corner that needs to be fixed as it has been chipped off, and is meaning that the drawers are not strong and wobble around.

So, to fix these issues I will be doing / learning the current skills:

- Replacing Dowel

- Replacing varnish and glues

- Cutting off the chipped corner, and replacing with a piece of matching wood, then re-drilling the dowel hole and replacing that join

- Pulling the whole thing apart, remembering where the pieces came from and putting it back together

- Making another door that can slide in the existing track

- Laminating wooden strips

- Using the plane to smooth out the existing edge and the new edge before they are joineds

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