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"  You&amp;#039;ve perfected your grilling technique. You&amp;#039;ve mastered the marinade. Now take your outdoor culinary skills to the next level by building our red cedar cookout cart. It&amp;#039;s the perfect mobile staging area for storing and preparing food. Chop vegetables or slice meat on its lift-off polyethylene cutting board, then dump scraps through its hole and into a sliding stainless-steel pan below. Another larger pan on the left slides out to give you access to stored meat, fish, vegetables or ice. Lean cookbooks against the backsplash and keep condiments in the lift-out tray on the left.  After the feast, the slide-out pans, the cutting board and the condiment tray come inside for cleaning while the cart stays outside with your grill.  What You&amp;#039;ll Need Barbecue Cart Plans (PDF, 1.3MB, requires Adobe Reader) Our cart is built of vertical-grain red cedar, a rot-resistant wood that&amp;#039;s easy to work with. To build exactly what we&amp;#039;ve got here, you will need a table saw and, ideally, a portable planer. Those attractive red cedar slats that form the shelves start out as \u00BD-inch-thick pieces ripped from a cedar 2 x 4 using a table saw. They are then planed or sanded. You&amp;#039;ll also need a biscuit joiner to bind the top pieces and a router to put a gentle curve on each slat edge and around the hole in the cutting board. That&amp;#039;s a lot of equipment to build a little cart. Suppose you don&amp;#039;t own those tools\u2014simplify. Use a circular saw and edge guide and substitute dowels or pocket screws for biscuits. To avoid planing, make the slats from 1 x 2 cedar or have an old-fashioned lumberyard plane the material for you. Step 1: Clamp, Then Screw  Crosscut the parts for the three frames. Clamp the parts together and bore countersunk pilot holes. Apply waterproof glue to the joint to add a little strength and to seal the end grain. Next, drive 1\u00BC-inch galvanized or stainless-steel screws into each joint. Step 2: Install The Legs  Crosscut the two rear legs, apply waterproof glue to the joint and fasten the legs using 1\u00BC-inch screws driven into pilot holes. Step 3: Add Safety  Make a knife shield from two pieces of acrylic plastic cut to shape with a jigsaw. Drill and countersink three screw holes into each piece. Then screw one to the outer surface of the upper frame. Attach the other to the inner surface of the wood handle. Step 4: Hide The Screws  Fasten the cart&amp;#039;s wood handle to the upper frame with glue and deck screws. Drive the screws from the back so they&amp;#039;ll be hidden. Make sure that the square end of each handle is flush with the rear legs. Step 5: Dowels Make Knife Slots  To create five partitions to hang knives, start by drilling six holes through the upper frame and both acrylic panels, and into (but not through) the wood handle. Insert a dowel into each hole, then trim it flush. Step 6: Rip The Slats  Rip the slats from a cedar 2 x 4 and sand or plane them smooth. Shape their top edges with a router and a rounding-over bit. Using a pneumatic finish nailer, fasten the slats to the frame, spaced 5/8 inch apart. Step 7: Build The Top  Rip and crosscut the top parts and test fit the cutting board in it. Next, use glue and biscuits to assemble the top and clamp the assembly. Screw the cleats to the bottom of the assembly. Step 8: Add Runners  With the cart upside down, screw on the runners, which will support the two stainless-steel pans.  Step 9: Fasten The Backsplash  Rip and crosscut the back-splash from a cedar 1 x 8, then cut the gentle top curve using a jigsaw. Finally, fasten it by driving deck screws through pilot holes into the back of the top assembly. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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