All 7 pullout shelves in all their resplendent gloryAnother oneGlamour shot of the installed shelvesAll slides installed and cabinet vacuumed outSimilarly done for the middle slidesVertical spacers to help align the slide and hold it in place for screwing into the back and the face frameNailed them to the back while the glue driedInstalling the drawer slides. The back of the cabinet was too thin (probably 1/8" ply) and I wasn't comfortable if it'd take the weight of a shelf loaded with pots and pans. So I cut pieces of 1/2" ply and glued thn to the back...and it fits just rightThat's the cut out shape...So cut out the L-shape with an angle grinderThe other issue I had was the placement of the door hinges as they interfered with the lower slidesClip mounted to the underside of the drawer. I had to notch out ~1/8" to accommodate the 5/8" slides with the 3/4" plywood...which gave me the exact point for drilling the hole... pressed it against the back of the drawer...For hole in the back for installing the undermount soft-close slides, marked with a sharpie the metal point that goes in the hole...Two coats of poly with light sanding in-between. Vacuumed out for final poly coatThe left one is unfinished while the right one has a coat of polyurethane applied. In hindsight, not a good idea as it 'yellowed' the Baltic birch whereas I preferred the whiter/original look on the left. Will do polyacrylic next timeTest fit to make sure I hand't messed up (I had - more than once)All 'fingers' cut out and all pieces sanded. Took a while - there were 56 ends for 7 drawersMakeshift overhead dust collection for table saw (worked fairly well)Box joint jig (took way too long to get dialed in just right)Cut to final lengthsAll sides of drawers cut to final 3 1/2" width but slightly longer than final lengths4' x 8' Baltic birch plywood ripped roughly down the middle. I could only find 3/4" near me, and that too after a lot of searching so I used that. However, my undermount soft-close slides were meant only for 1/2" or 5/8" plywood as the 3/4" ones were a little too expensive. This added a lot more work in the construction, and came up in unexpected ways. I made it work finally but for future, better to just buy the 3/4" ones and save a lot of time and angst
