Wineador build

So while surfing Craigslist a few nights ago I came across a free 29 bottle wine cooler. The compressor was broke in it (no big deal I don't need the temperature control aspect for a wineador) so I went and picked it up. This this is way bigger than I expected but I can't pass up free lol
http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/p...HO_600x450.jpg

I finally got the big boy downstairs to my room and think I am gonna build a small shelf for ontop of the wineador so I can put both my wooden humidors on top and show them both off.
http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/p...111_133239.jpg

I plan on making 5 drawers from Spanish cedar and mahogany within the next few weeks and also get some fans set up as well. I think for this I'm gonna go with some kitty litter on the bottom and some in the upper drawers as well. Stay tuned for some drawer building pictures soon

Nice score!!

Really looking forward to see how this works out!

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Originally Posted by JollyRogers

Really looking forward to see how this works out!

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ohhh me too lol. im gonna go home take some measurements and see how much its gonna cost me per drawer to make

I got my first wineador a couple of months ago and absolutely love it. I look forward to watching yours progress. Congrats!

Look forward to seeing how this comes out. Congrats and keep us posted.

Wow, free! Nice score!

see like I said frig's everywhere......thats gonna be nice I really like the glass front....I dont know ifin Im ever goin to put in cedar, right now I just need storage.....

Nice find!

that's a hell of a deal. Maybe I need to start looking on CL for another one!

Great pick up

Nice find!

That was my plan when I was looking at a wineador, but I got tired of looking and looking and finding nothing around me. So I broke down and bought one...

I was bummed as it meant I had less $$ to spend on filling my wineador!

In the end, I'm REALLY glad I have it. So does my best friend who has taken the liberty of storing his stuff in my wineador.

I collect rent from him, in the form of smoking one of his cigars every once in a while.

Nice find, now you got me scouring CL

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Originally Posted by Upstatemax

Nice find!

That was my plan when I was looking at a wineador, but I got tired of looking and looking and finding nothing around me. So I broke down and bought one...

I was bummed as it meant I had less $$ to spend on filling my wineador!

In the end, I'm REALLY glad I have it. So does my best friend who has taken the liberty of storing his stuff in my wineador.

I collect rent from him, in the form of smoking one of his cigars every once in a while.

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i will be honest it took me close to a year actually to find one for free. i had found two in New Jersey last winter round this time last year but the weather was so bad i was not able to make the trip to get one so i continued the search. i got some measurements done last night and im probably looking at around 20 dollars per drawer with the place im looking at getting spanish cedar from. i think just to get a feel for the build i am gonna make a mock up drawer from some skid wood i have sitting around so im not wasting spanish cedar. stay tuned for pics of this!

You should have a contest after it's completed

See how many Gurkha cigars fit in that bad boy! Fill it up with Gurkhas, let' Cigar Bum guess how many are in there.

Make this happen!

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Originally Posted by DogRockets

You should have a contest after it's completed

See how many Gurkha cigars fit in that bad boy! Fill it up with Gurkhas, let' Cigar Bum guess how many are in there.

Make this happen!

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at this rate that thing will be filled with ligas undercrowns and tats

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Originally Posted by Demuths1770

at this rate that thing will be filled with ligas undercrowns and tats

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Oh come on now. Get on CI and you can fill it with Gurkhas for like $20-30 bucks. 98% OFF!!!! ;)

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Originally Posted by jhedrick83

Oh come on now. Get on CI and you can fill it with Gurkhas for like $20-30 bucks. 98% OFF!!!! ;)

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Gurkha Kitchen Sink Mega-Sampler - Cigars International

i heard they wanted to rename this the Jeremy dog rocket special last week when i was at cigars international. actually the gurkha selection at the store really shrank the past few months and they no longer have the 700-2000$ Gurkhas that where locked up with the opus x

@Demuths1770
whats the inside measurements, an that glass is see thru....

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Originally Posted by Lynn

@Demuths1770
whats the inside measurements, an that glass is see thru....

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its roughly 17 inches wide little over a foot deep and about 20 inches tall on the inside. yep the glass is see through so the fronts of the drawer will probably be mahogany with silver curved drawer pulls to match the curved glass front

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Originally Posted by Demuths1770

its roughly 17 inches wide little over a foot deep and about 20 inches tall on the inside. yep the glass is see through so the fronts of the drawer will probably be mahogany with silver curved drawer pulls to match the curved glass front

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lights need lights

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Originally Posted by Lynn

lights need lights

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it has a light on the inside already and i will be adding two or three fans for air circulation as well to keep humidity consistent throughout

Great score! Excited to see the drawers you make

I'll be following this as well. Excited to see how it turns out!

I stared building a mock drawer last night with some wood I had laying around just to see how everything would fit together and fit into the cooler. I got the base of the drawer done and just have to build the drawer part now. its nothing super fancy but the goal is to save on price and im thinking i can build there for around 15ish to 20 per drawer. It wasn't too hard to make but a a zero clearance insert would really make it easier for creating the dados. With out further ado some pics
http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/p...118_155941.jpg
http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/p...118_162839.jpg

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Originally Posted by DogRockets

You should have a contest after it's completed

See how many Gurkha cigars fit in that bad boy! Fill it up with Gurkhas, let' Cigar Bum guess how many are in there.

Make this happen!

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Aint it bout time fer nother a yer Polls?

Well played! I love the glass door on it, that has the potential to become a super sexy wineador. Keep us posted on your progress!

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Originally Posted by Chad Vegas

Well played! I love the glass door on it, that has the potential to become a super sexy wineador. Keep us posted on your progress!

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That's my goal is to make this thing sexy lol. I finished up the mock up drawer last night. The sides are 2 inches tall and hold 3 50ish rg cigars deep so it will be plenty of storage in each drawer. Its probably gonna have two 6inch or so deep drawers on the bottom one with a false double face to hide the media and than 5 drawers around a foot deep with a shelf on top. I got the mock up drawer complete last night
http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/p...120_092300.jpg

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Originally Posted by Demuths1770

That's my goal is to make this thing sexy lol. I finished up the mock up drawer last night. The sides are 2 inches tall and hold 3 50ish rg cigars deep so it will be plenty of storage in each drawer. Its probably gonna have two 6inch or so deep drawers on the bottom one with a false double face to hide the media and than 5 drawers around a foot deep with a shelf on top. I got the mock up drawer complete last night
http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/p...120_092300.jpg

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Looking good. Having never build drawers before, how did you attach the sides to the base in the mock up. I'm thinking of building my own vs buying premade drawers in the near future.

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Originally Posted by Hardheaded

Looking good. Having never build drawers before, how did you attach the sides to the base in the mock up. I'm thinking of building my own vs buying premade drawers in the near future.

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i just used wood glue and clamps to told the drawer sides to the base.

For the drawer front I ran a rabbit on the bottom and dados on the side so it fits snug onto the drawer base and sides
http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/p...120_092323.jpg

That certainly seems simple enough. Thank you.

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Originally Posted by Hardheaded

That certainly seems simple enough. Thank you.

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it was simple. i did all the cuts for the drawer in just around 2 hours. the hardest part was doing the tongue and grove cuts for the sides of the drawer. i think you could cut all the boards in a half a day once you had it all set up and than it would be a matter of gluing them up. i also didnt pull the miter saw out so i had to constantly make changes on the table saw which took more time as well. i also am going to look into a zero clearance throat plate for my table saw to help make some of the cuts safer and eaiser

How thick is the wood you are using? I'm trying to gear up for my own shelf construction, and any further details you have would be immensely helpful!

might I add, do you know your interior dimensions on the wineador? and what are the dimensions you used for the wood/ of the completed drawer?

I know my cooler is a unique size, but trying to figure out how much clearance to give and such is giving me a headache. Wondering how much you left on the sides and back for air movement.

If using 1/4 for bottoms as suggested above, would you still be able to use the same construction method?

I'm considering doing 1/4 bottoms and 3/8 sides - was gonna go 2 inches like you said, because the wood comes in 4in widths, so good usage. But after checking, my large drawer-style humi is 2in high for the drawers, and honestly I only get them 2 high. 3 cigars would make it real tight between drawers clearance-wise and I don't want my cigars scraping on wood every time I pull a drawer, so I'm debating going 2 3/4 for height, hoping that gives me safe room for 3 gars high. 3 inches is too high for my drawers to fit in the wineador nicelly, also, have to add that 1/4 piece the walls sit on, right? It's these things that always end up messing me up with building projects...

Looking at your pictures, and from my own drawer build for my wineador, I will make a suggestion. If you are planning on using wood as thick as you have for your mock up, it really isn't necessary. If I were to do mine again, I would go no thicker than 1/4" for the bottoms and 1/2" or less for the sides/fronts. I would also go 3" tall sides instead of 2" like I did...I'd fit alot more sticks in mine if I had gone that route.

Looks like a good solid and usable design though.

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Originally Posted by SeanTheEvans

Wondering how much you left on the sides and back for air movement. I probably have 1/4" - 1/2" on sides and back

If using 1/4 for bottoms as suggested above, would you still be able to use the same construction method? You could use very similar construction. I was thinking if I did it again, I'd just have the bottom slats hang past the sides to use as the part that fits in the cooler slots. You could do the sides/fronts/backs the same as Kyle and then either glue the bottoms to the box, or nail it with brads. I used brads to join all mine together on my build, and would probably do the same if I did it again.

I'm considering doing 1/4 bottoms and 3/8 sides - was gonna go 2 inches like you said, because the wood comes in 4in widths, so good usage. But after checking, my large drawer-style humi is 2in high for the drawers, and honestly I only get them 2 high. 3 cigars would make it real tight between drawers clearance-wise and I don't want my cigars scraping on wood every time I pull a drawer, so I'm debating going 2 3/4 for height, hoping that gives me safe room for 3 gars high. 3 inches is too high for my drawers to fit in the wineador nicelly, also, have to add that 1/4 piece the walls sit on, right? It's these things that always end up messing me up with building projects...

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Measure out exactly how much room you'd have for height of drawer sides and go with that. I am just guestimating 3" for what I'd do with a new build, but it might be slightly less than 3"...?

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Originally Posted by Ilroy

Looking at your pictures, and from my own drawer build for my wineador, I will make a suggestion. If you are planning on using wood as thick as you have for your mock up, it really isn't necessary. If I were to do mine again, I would go no thicker than 1/4" for the bottoms and 1/2" or less for the sides/fronts. I would also go 3" tall sides instead of 2" like I did...I'd fit alot more sticks in mine if I had gone that route.

Looks like a good solid and usable design though.

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this was made with 1/2 inch boards from pallets i had for some other projects. i plan on going with either 3/8 or 1/4 inch for the construction of the base and drawer sides as well and i am still doing to build it the same way as well. the tongue and grove would be a little harder to do with 1/4 inch since the grove would probably only be around an 1/8 of an inch wide leaving a 1/16 on each side but i think i could make that work. my wine cooler is about 20" tall 15-16" deep and 17" wide. the drawer front is 3.5 inches tall and 1/2 an inch is covering the base so i cant do 3" high drawers and the wood i am looking at is 4 inch wide so i was going to split it to get 2ish inch slats to use. im still debating on just making the base out of spanish cedar and the drawer sides and front from mahogany. the drawer i built is 16.5 inches wide and 1 foot deep. i wanted to make sure i had at least and inch in the back for air movement with how large this wine cooler is. i have to also shim the left side of the wine cooler shelve slats because when the door opens it dose not open flush. i can get more pictures tonight of everything and the actual drawer in the cooler as well!! thanks for all the feedback support and complements!!

So here is a 2 year old bump but I'm not gonna start a new thread. I have finally reached the point where I am out of space and still have events and cigars coming in this year and it was time I did some wood working for myself. I ordered the spanish cedar more than a year ago and had it sitting next to the wine cooler this whole time. I revamped my design some and made some small changes and last week started cutting the wood down. This week I'm going to focus on getting all the bases built and go from there. Instead of going straight across I am going to try a diagonal like pictured below https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...d049eee82d.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...783a338240.jpg

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Ha! I win! You started first but I beat you! Only took ME about 2 years.... so we know how long you've been screwing around

Congrats on picking back up on your project though, excited to see how it turns out!

It was never a rush back than because I had space or was willing to sell a few to make space but now I am out of space so the crunch is on. Plus in two years I have done enough wood working that I have picked up some good tricks and tools to help that I didnt have back than. I'm hoping to have 4 drawers minus the fronts and 1 shelf done by the end of this week. We will see if that happens though lol. I'm still debating what I want to do for drawer fronts. I was thinking liga boxes would be cool since i have some laying around but they are just a few inches too short unfortunately. I think i may just go w red oak

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Originally Posted by SeanTheEvans

Ha! I win! You started first but I beat you! Only took ME about 2 years.... so we know how long you've been screwing around

Congrats on picking back up on your project though, excited to see how it turns out!

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