Building A Cabinet Carcass

Instead of creating such a monster build individual cabinet carcasses.

Building a cabinet carcass.

Leg and rail frame and panel and box or case. If you cap the end cabinet with 1 4 in. Leg and rail construction is found on chairs tables benches stools and on some furniture such as chests. Tips for perfect cabinet boxes.

While the lack of face frame does allow for the possibility of racking face coming out of square during installation it does allow for a more efficient use of cabinet space. The cabinet carcass is the plywood that makes up the box. If you are building face frame cabinets you will build you face frame next then attach the two. The carcass construction can be separated into three types.

Cabinet building has several variations which may be used in construction. Add the face frame after they re all in place. Easy tutorial to build your own kitchen cabinet carcass with pocket holes. Cap end cabinets to hide fasteners.

Face frames cover plywood edges. One of the easiest cabinet carcasses to build is an upper cabinet and to make it even easier there s no face frame. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. This style is referred to as frameless or european style cabinet.

If you are building frameless cabinets this will be the entire build. That means you can use large sturdy screws. Plywood you don t have to hide the fasteners you used to build your boxes. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible.