Cabinet Door Frame Joints

Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation.

Cabinet door frame joints.

Wood joinery is one of the most basic concepts in woodworking if we didn t have the ability to join two pieces of wood together in a solid fashion all woodworking pieces would be sculptures carved out of a single piece of wood. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. Frames use 3 4 thick stock with 1 4 panels in various materials and veneers a general purpose saw blade will do the job although. To even up the ends of the door cut 1 16 in.

Making the door frame. But traditionally the strongest wood joint has been a mortise and tenon including both a blind tenon and a through tenon. For a mortise tenon joint the wood failed but not the joint. The trick to successful biscuit joinery is cutting the slots in.

We show you the three key techniques you need to know joints at right angles joints in narrow materials and joints in thin materials. Frame and panel doors add class to any project but they don t have to add a lot of assembly time. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. Making outside corners on door and window trim and creating decorative frames.

You also have to hang them. Euro or cup hinges are the easiest most forgiving means of hanging your new cabinet doors. The door for mike pekovich s wall cabinet quickly comes together as mike creates the frame with stub tenons and grooves at the tablesaw. It took 4 733 lbs force nearly 2 1 2 tons to pull apart.

For tight miter joints that fit snugly leaving no visible gaps use a miter saw a specialized. Building shaker cabinet doors is only part of the story. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. Biscuit joiners allow you to make solid precise joints accurate enough to build fine cabinets.

In this three part episode mike builds a drawer for the cabinet taking you through his ever methodical methods for perfect half blind dovetails. However with the many varied types of wood joinery a woodworker has a number of different joints in his arsenal from which to choose based on the project. From each end using the table saw. These joints may be used to create frames for frame and panel doors for dust webs or drawer supports and even in basic furniture framing such as legs and rails for tables and chairs.

Face frames cover plywood edges. Biscuit miter joint 220 lbs force. Clearly this test shows that the mortise tenon joint is superior to other joints.