Cabinet Door Frame Joints

We show you the three key techniques you need to know joints at right angles joints in narrow materials and joints in thin materials.

Cabinet door frame joints.

In this three part episode mike builds a drawer for the cabinet taking you through his ever methodical methods for perfect half blind dovetails. The door for mike pekovich s wall cabinet quickly comes together as mike creates the frame with stub tenons and grooves at the tablesaw. Clearly this test shows that the mortise tenon joint is superior to other joints. But traditionally the strongest wood joint has been a mortise and tenon including both a blind tenon and a through tenon.

The trick to successful biscuit joinery is cutting the slots in. Making outside corners on door and window trim and creating decorative frames. To even up the ends of the door cut 1 16 in. Using the straightforward process detailed here you can crank out great looking doors for many applications including furniture cabinets and built ins.

From each end using the table saw. Building shaker cabinet doors is only part of the story. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. 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.

Biscuit miter joint 220 lbs force. Face frames cover plywood edges. Get help with the hinges. It took 4 733 lbs force nearly 2 1 2 tons to pull apart.

Biscuit joiners allow you to make solid precise joints accurate enough to build fine cabinets. 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. Dado 559 lbs force screws did not help. For a mortise tenon joint the wood failed but not the joint.

For tight miter joints that fit snugly leaving no visible gaps use a miter saw a specialized. Euro or cup hinges are the easiest most forgiving means of hanging your new cabinet doors. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. 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.

Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. Frame and panel doors add class to any project but they don t have to add a lot of assembly time. Making the door frame.