Ahmed Hamade
Custom cabinetmaker in Los Angeles, and the builder of CabDesign.
Ahmed runs Bespoke Woodcraft Studio, a custom cabinetry shop in Los Angeles, California, building kitchens, built-ins and furniture to client specification. His shop work centers on frameless cabinets built on the 32mm system, with handleless Gola runs a specialty.
He also builds CabDesign, the browser-based cabinet-design suite these guides belong to, and uses its tools on his own jobs: the same designer, cut-list and nesting workflow the guides teach is the one his shop runs.
Where the knowledge comes from
The short answer is a working shop, not a research desk. Cabinets leave this shop for clients on a schedule, which means every method described in these guides has already had to survive the part where somebody hangs a door on it and the reveal either lines up or it does not. That is a different test from reading about a method, and it is the reason a guide here will sometimes tell you that the tidy answer is not the one the shop actually uses.
Frameless construction on the 32mm system is the center of it. Every guide about hole spacing, hinge plates, drawer slide clearance or carcass layout is written from cabinets built that way rather than from a summary of the standard. The same goes for Gola. A handleless kitchen is a continuous channel that has to meet a run of fronts at a consistent gap all the way down a wall, and the things that make that hard are not obvious until you have had one come out wrong.
The software side feeds the same loop. CabDesign is built by the shop that uses it, so a feature that would not survive a Tuesday in a real shop tends to get changed, and the reason it changed usually turns into a guide. StackDesign, the Systainer wall planner, came about the same way: the shop needed one and there was nothing to buy.
How these guides get written
Every guide here follows the same rules: research first, cite every factual claim to a source you can check, say so plainly when a number is a marketing figure rather than a measurement, and never publish a spec that was not verified. Where a guide touches a real product, the manufacturer's documentation is linked in that guide's Sources section.
The checking is not done alone. Everything published under this name is read by a crew of AI specialists working to written mandates, each with one narrow job, and none of them signs off on anybody else's. A separate desk re-derives cut geometry from first principles, another checks a page against manufacturer documentation rather than against our own code, and a copy desk traces every factual sentence back to a file or flags it as unsourced. Those are software, not staff, and the site says so plainly and names all of them. The cabinetmaker still decides what is true about a cabinet.
Corrections are welcome and they are the most useful message anybody sends. If a guide describes something in a way your own shop would not recognize, that is worth knowing, and it goes to the person who decides rather than into a queue.
Questions about a guide, or a correction? Reach the studio through bespokewoodcraftstudio.com, or through support and guides.