Building a corner cabinet

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I had a water incident at my place, resulting in my bathtub on second floor draining into my kitchen on the first floor.

Plumbing has been fixed and abatement done, so moving now into the process of putting things back together. Insurnace is covering most, but not one of the corner cabinets.

The corner cabinet quote is $2,500, and I still have the door for it. I have the damaged cabinet still, so my thought is to trace the parts and cut myself? But I have never build a cabinet before (particle board with the white wrap exterior), so not sure about joining corners etc. It is a pentagon shape.

Any tips or ideas on this? Or is this way harder than I think and $2500 is reasonable?

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I’m sure you have done the research but any chance this ikea one is the same base?
https://www.ikea.com/ca/en/p/sektion-corner-wall-cabinet-frame-white-10265504/

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Ah nice, did not see this one on Ikea when looking… one I saw was more an “L” shaped piece instead of a Pentagon. Will check measurements!

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Sligh difference in depth ( mine are 11 3/4, ikea 14 1/2) but height is exactly correct. This is giving credence to “there is a better path” here for me here. Can particle board be cut on the table saw, or does that trigger a stopsaw, and maybe trim to size.

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Not sure but the woodshop did just get a tracksaw which should make cutting stuff like this much easier.

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You can cut particle board on the tablesaw but as @Janet mentioned the tracksaw might be a better use case here if you are ripping down a full sheet of melamine to get this done at least until you have smaller more managable pieces.

@Brad purchased some white melamine last year from a windsor plywood for dirt cheap that’s sitting in my storage unit incase someone needs it or for future VHS projects. We used some of it to replace the main workbench at VHS. I think you’d need to pick up some white edge banding and some pocket hole screws. I’d guess that your material cost would be right around 50-75 bucks depending on what Brad would sell the sheet of melamine for.

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Thanks @Phillip_Ma for the thoughful and insightful response. One I get the hole in my ceiling closed up, (and sounds like you’ll have the maiden tracksaw shop this weekend too), I’ll reach out. Very happy to contribute to your time / tracksaw / space for a training in the future / assist with this.

Turns out a family member’s tenant also was a cabinet maker in a previous role so might be able to nab a hand there.

Appreciate you all for insight and wisdom on this.

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