I should have looked at the publication date! The book is far from being current with what is being done today. Almost all the pictures are black and white. There is some good information in the book but it was not worth the price for me.

This book is ok, but it's mostly aimed at someone wanting to build cabinet carcasses from melamine covered particle board and screwed corner joints. It also has a section on using mortiseed joints that you cut on the table saw. Why? I can't understand why anyone would go to the trouble of building economy cabinets as shown in this book. The Udo Schmidt and Bob Lang books are more about building high quality cabinets.

The cabinets they built were the small bathroom.cabinets with 4" legs under them instead of 34" normal kitchen cabinets . So all the parts list was to small . My kitchen sink is a triple bowl and needs a 5 foot base cabinet. Didn't explain this is the details.

This book, while having one good idea--the combination of face-frame and Euro-style approaches--is out of date and repetitive. You can find better information on any number of forums. Further, if I wanted particle board furniture, I'd go to a big box store. Cabinetmakers thinking of using this info commercially would benefit more from avoiding that race to the bottom with poor materials and cheap construction. Instead of buying this book, spend the money on another clamp.

I'm in the process of building my own house and plan on building my own kitchen cabinets. Cabinet building has always kind of intimidated me, but after buying Danny's book i have the confidence to tackle the job myself. I've bought a few cabinet building books and quite frankly most of the writers are more tuned in to telling you their own little tricks of the trade to do things like they do, but they never get down to the "nuts and bolts" of actually doing the job.
Danny makes the job seem so much easier and his writing style makes you feel like he is right beside you guiding you through the process. His book also has drawings and dimensions and cut lists for various types of cabinets making the job so much easier for the novice cabinet maker, instilling a great deal of confidence (at least for me) to get the job done, and have it look great when you finish. I like that in his book he almost exclusively uses Melamine particleboard to make the cabinet carcasses. which is the basic material for European style cabinets and this method also saves you a good deal of money over laminated hardwood faced plywood cabinets The melamine coating is also easy to clean and very strong, and the use of hidden hinges and adjustable legs make for easy installation, a time saving feature. There are so many pluses to buying Danny's books that there just isn't enough room to list them all here. If you really are thinking of building your own kitchen cabinets this is the book to buy.