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You know how you make a lazy Susan? You marry her!!! Thankyou I’m here all week 😂. Love the channel keep up the great work Jason. 🇦🇺

....and mm stands for MeasureMent... REAL measurement! You guys using "freedom units" are out numbered by the rest of the world, remember that.👍👍👍 From a fan in Denmark, Northern Europe 🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰

Honestly even if it came out in the first 2 minutes I was surprised it took that long to hear “who the heck is Susan?” 😂 Love the channel dude!

As a cabinetmaker it’s always a good thing to cut a 45degree angle on the back corner to accommodate the excess mud buildup used in the corner. Just sayin😉

I work in the UK kitchen industry you should try a magic corner

First time I hear it's called Lazy Susan hinges, I usually buy these from BLUM and they're know as bifold hinges.

Savage American imperial system! Glory to the metric system!

Great video thanks for sharing

the mandela effect is strong in this video

That interlocking square shelf on the wall at the beginning of this video looks like an advanced form of floating stairs!

I've never seen actual doors on a lazy Susan. The "doors" are usually attached to trays , and spin with the trays.

Nice work as always

My parents have two corner lazy susans in their circa 1990 kitchen. Theirs have two inset doors mounted to the lazy S itself that rotate with it. You just push n a door and the whole thing starts spinning. It looks especially goofy since none of the other doors are inset... but it works. No hinges.

I got your miter station plans to use as a guide to go in my shop. I’ve never built cabinets before. Well….. i didn’t realize I needed about 34” to use my saw on a 24” top. I figured it out, and I’m working on the drawers now. It looks so good, I didn’t realize how enjoyable it was all going to be.

Looks good. Thanks for sharing.

Great vid, Jason~! I love your "let's figure this out" projects. You nailed it~! Looking forward to the next one.

Nicely done.

The one in our kitchen has two separate doors. You close one, which has no handle, and then the other, which has a handle, closes across the front of it. You have to close them in the right order because the handle prevents you doing otherwise. It is a slight inconvenience but I think it is MUCH stronger than the folding door method. Thirty years with no problem. The two rotating trays turn together, so you don't need to bend down to rotate the lower one.

Have a Corner Cabinet to do as well... this helped... thank you!!!

Hinge on the face frame is under more than 2x the normal stress. Open/close + weight of "2 doors. Need heavy duty anchors too. Careful to not split the face frame when using.

Very cool solution. Our lazy Susan has the door faces mounted to it. You push in on either door face and they just spin around inside the cabinet with the lazy Susan. Downside is you can smash your fingers if not paying attention.

To install your lazy Susan Hinges, those Woodpeckers corner clamps could have been handy to hold yours doors together while you mark and measure. Also, in place of those special lazy susan hinges, a simple piano hinge is what is used the most and does a great job.

Another great tutorial

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Hole saw idea is very creative. Compass or set of dividers and a ruler could be used here to accomplish same task

Both houses I've lived in have had lazy Susan's, the first just used 2 full length piano hinges and the second has the doors attached and spins with them

Make sure to countersink your hardware on the lazy door. We didn’t and ended up with scratch marks on the neighboring cabinet. In this instance your farm sink could be scuffed. Love watching this build!

Wouldn't be better/stronger to have placed the top of the cabinet on top of the walls instead of relying on just the screws to hold the weight of things being placed on the counter top? I'm not a cabinet maker but the way it's made just the screws are holding it instead of the walls of the cabinet. Thanks, love the channel. Keep up the great work Jason.

Cool. I wanted to watch this video as soon as I saw it because about 10 years ago, my first attempt at woodworking was building new cabinets to match the ones my grandfather built (my father built the house in 1979-80, and about the last thing my grandfather did before he died was build the cabinets for the house). Since we kept/reused half my grandfather's cabinets, I had to build the new ones copying his tongue-and-V-groove doors. Anyway, the corner cabinet before was dead space, and I resolved to build a lazy susan cabinet. The problem (to me) with those Rev-A-Shelf metal lazy susans is that you only get two (2) shelves, and even watching the video, you've got a lot of dead/unused space because the turntables are small. I custom built the lazy susans using those large, 12in diameter bearings, and I did 3 shelves that went ~ 0.5 inches from the walls of the cabinet at the closest point. No center mast -- I built shelves and turntables with 3/4 inch Baltic birch. The shelves are tight fit into shelf pins (I think 6 total -- 2 on each of three sides, with the back corner of my cabinet being a 45 degree angle since I didn't need the 90 degrees), and the shelves support the bearing and turn table. I glued edge-banding around the turntable that rises up ~1.5 inches to keep stuff from falling off in the back if you spin the table too quickly. I got 3 turntables in there this way, and they hold a lot of my mother's pantry jars -- I've been super pleased with how it functions (my craftsmanship back then needed work), and my door uses similar hinges as in this video, but I got my doors to fold directly back flat against each other when open in a way that I like better than what is shown here. I think I just have a different hinge that folds more. I guess I should make a video of it, because no one is going to read this post and have any idea what I'm saying.

Great video

In the northeast this cabinet is called a Whirl-a-gig. a lazy susan is spinning item that you put on the middle of your table so you can get to things like salt, pepper, etc.

Hi Jason! I am a huge fan!!! Curious why you chose to purchase metal wire lazy Susan shelves instead of building one from wood? Beautiful work! Enjoy learning from you!

Susan is Karens sister. Susan became Lazy as Karen Complained about everything Susan did so she learned to sit in the corner and do nothing .

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I would have liked to see the clip of you searching the floor and unraveling the paper ball instructions to see how the lazy Susan mechanism works. Cheers John from County Durham England.

My doors are inset and attached to the lazy Susan’s and spin with the trays.

Haha Jason. You're a funny man, lazy Susan 😂. And mm is a delightful candy 😉

Hi Jason I remember my mams old kitchen had 2 lazy Susan’s . The doors were simple.2 hinges to left of one door and the to the right of the other1 had L piece attached to the inside so when closed the gap between would look like a central support post.. ohh and my mams name is Susan so my dad had to deal with 3 of them

You could give the most outer part of the door a few degrees inward, like a regular door. It'll be easier to close the door but won't show from the outside. Since it now looks like it's very tight to close it. And I built mine with regular 18mm of the weird measurement material, over 20 years ago. And it's plenty strong. All the weight of the lazy susan goes to the bottom, where it's supported by the toe kick. And that was a cheap ikea lazy susan. It never fails.

I bought and installed the same lazy Susan hardware a few months ago. I have found that after a few months of use, it no longer spins as well as it once did (I think the plastic parts of the joints have gotten stuck so now the metal part rotates around the stuck plastic which is not ideal. It still works but now the Susan feels extra lazy because I have to do all the work to turn it.

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I use a simple piano hinge between the doors and to attach to the cabinet. Some people prefer a solid shelf to utilise the full storage area on top and a lazy susan / magic corner on the lower tier. Personally I prefer diagonal corner drawers.

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I admire the cabinet and built, but... We have the doors attached to the Lazy Susan, so they fold and 'turn' into the cabinet. In my personal opinion that's nicer and more practical than a separate door which sticks out. AND... You don't need special hinges 😉 But nevertheless, nicely made 👍🏻

Hi Jason, have you ever done a "zig zag" drawer set for a corner cupboard. Would love to see you do one Cheers Guy

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Nice! But I was really hoping you would make some nice wood spinny shelves to replace the dumb cages

In Europe we have other ways of doing this that make it easier to use, such as a normal cabinet with a mechanism that pulls the shelves out without corner doors.

I love the channel and watch almost all of your vids! I'm planning on getting more into woodworking and saving up for some bigger tools... I'm curious if you think there's any big difference between DeWalt, Oliver Machinery, and Rikon job site table saws?

We have 2 lazy Susan’s , upper and a lower cabinet in our kitchen the doors are attached to the lazy Susan’s so you just push one side or other to access them

First view! Thanks for doing what you do!

My grandparents have one of those cabinets in their kitchen The door for theirs is a L shape The 2 "panels" are attached FIRMLY in the internal corner, and the left hand one is hinged to the cabinet, the right side has the handle, and it opens up as one L shaped piece

Loved it! How about barrel-drum doors? Why not turning the lazy-suzan yourself out of wood and bend wood around to make the edges of the "baskets"?

You could of gone extra 'fancy-schmancy' (technical term) with the doors and attach them directly TO the swinging trays. And give up all the complicated hinges. These are inset doors anyway, right? To open the Lazy Susan you would just push on the door and swing the doors along with the trays, right or left. Yes, you would also have to play with the face frame a little to allow it to happen, but you can figure it out.

Maybe you should try metric units some day. Since you hate math this could be for you. No more calculating in fractions :D

If anyone is dealing with corner cabinets, try blind corner shelves instead

Me deu uma dor no coração vendo varrer a parafusadeira da Festool pelo chão. 😂

You could also use a piano hinge for then center. Possibly easier to install and cheaper.

A blind corner pullout is a better use of space

I've always known those types of units as carousels

Love your videos, Jason and the way you ditch instructions and just figure things out. Would it have been stronger to make your top carry to the edge of sides the box so you could set it on top? Not a builder at all so maybe it's a silly question?

Nice work! Which software are you using to design cabinet?

Where do you get 3/4" BIRCH ply? Cant find it where i live.

Although this is a novel approach, Hafele and Blum have far better products for dead corner cabinets that allow you to have a regular door on one side of the cabinet and then pull out caddy drawers that allow you to store stuff deep into the cabinet.

Where are you getting your prefinished plywood?

I just made a galley cabinet for my van. How do you keep everything square while you’re building these things? I tried using a framing square that is….not square.

Jason, have you considered going metric?

I'll be facing the same corner question in a few weeks. I dont like Susans, lazy or industrious. But what else is there? I've found 2 interesting alternatives. First there's a swiveling pivoting pair of tulip, peanut, ???, shaped pull outs that only need 1 door. Somehow the "tulip" wiggles its way into and out of the corner space. Amazon sells kits as blind corner pullouts. Second, I saw at HD, a lazy Susan but with a difference. Instead of a whole circle with a quarter cut out, the spinning piece was divided into 3 sections. The middle section could also be pulled out, like a drawer, to get at the back end without spinning. Or you could spin as usual. Kinda neat. Maybe some hybrid of these 2 approaches could be invented to keep lazy Susan out of the corner and better utilize its square inches ? I like pullouts, drawer-like mechanisms as you don't have to bend over and reach deep to get stuff stored deep in bottom cabinets. My kitchen should work for me, not make me work to use it.

My mom's name is Susan and growing up we had a "spinning shelf" in one of our cabinets that we ONLY called a "spinning shelf" because if you didn't, Mama got a real mean look in her eyes. lol

Any chance you can link the other hinges you used. Been trying to find a160-175 degree hinge with no overlay and every time I order some it ends up being a overlay.

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Don't do lazy suzan inside the corner. It waste space. 24" wide & 24" deep= 288 sq" lazy s 24"dia."= 75sq" shelf space, - 90 degree front corner notch( a common (design)= 57sq" on suzan. For storage available. Have seen a pull out square shelf and slide to side corner unit that looks far better use and easy access into deep of corner.= 288sq" useable shelf. I'm was a kitchen cabinet design/builder years back.

Euro hinges are the future

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Haven't we been there and done that already?

Ive built two of these so far, and lived in a house with another. You will want a lazy susan 'apparatus' that has a solid bottom and not a metal rack.

What program do you use to make your build?

hey love your channel. just moved to your neck of the woods. don't worry not a stalker ;) I need to build some cabinets and was hoping you could recommend a local wood supplier?

Compass baby- buy 10 and put one in every drawer. That way you won’t be playing the “match the paint can lid” to everything that needs a circle drawn.

"So with my trusty track saw, with no dust collection hooked up because I like to trigger all the RU-vid armchair woodworkers out there..."

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"mm" is the measurement with chocolate candy also know as M&M (the ones without the peanut).

Haven't I've seen this one already?

If you have the equipment and skill to build your own Lazy Susan, you should. The Susans that are made by traditional cabinet builders do not use the space effectively. There is always wasted space. The cabinets will be 36 inches on two back sides, but they have to be 24 inches on the inside. This is difficult to explain without a drawing, so you need to look carefully at the dimensions shown in the assembly instructions. In my most recent kitchen I placed a 12-inch cabinet on one end instead of a 24-inch cabinet.

After living abroad for many years, hearing Americans use inches makes me feel the way I used to feel when British people use stones.

Instead of using backstops I personally would have used Neodium magnets on the edge..It would've snapped shut and not gone further..And looked nice too

I am confused as to why the doors are inset in the face frame as opposed to having them close onto the face frame like most cabinet doors?

You will notice that the carcass is 36 by 36 but the Susan is only 24 inches. You can buy a true 36-inch Susan, but it is going to cost a lot.

25,4 Millimeters (MM) = 1 inch 2.54 Centimeters (CM) = 1 inch LUCKILY FOR ME I DO NOT HAVE A PROBLEM MEASURING OR CONVERTING TO BOTH. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Caribbean Dutch Lady in Da House!!! 🇨🇼

Those cabinets are typically made so the two backsides are 6" away from the wall. This eliminates the space, in the back of the cabinet, for when things fall off the shelves.

I don't think I've ever seen a weird double-door version like that -- every lazy susan cabinet I've ever seen had the doors affixed to the spinning portion, so they just disappeared inside while you were getting something out, and then "magically" just re-appeared when you spun it back in place!

So helpful! I’ve been wanting to remove my cabinet lazy susans that are taking up useful cabinet space. I was concerned the post for the lazy susans were supporting the cabinets and the counters. I’m taking those stinkin’ things out today!!

Hah! I made the same mistake with the door hinges. Need at least 140 throw instead of normal 110.

I’ve only ever seen the ones where the door attaches to the spinning shelves themself

I have two lazy susan cabinets in my kitchen and the doors are attached to the shelves. No hinges ... just push to open and the doors spin with the shelves.

I am NOT lazy!!

My lazy susan cabinet has doors that are connected with a hinge that allow them to bend and become a straight door as well. They dont look like your hardware. There are better hinges available

I've never done one of these, but i think you did just about every wrong thing i would have, minus a few others😅

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I am confused, I thought you already did the laundry room cabinets?