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.

The door for mike pekovich s wall cabinet quickly comes together as mike creates the frame with stub tenons and grooves at the tablesaw. In this three part episode mike builds a drawer for the cabinet taking you through his ever methodical methods for perfect half blind dovetails. Biscuit miter joint 220 lbs force. You also have to hang them.

Dado 559 lbs force screws did not help. Making outside corners on door and window trim and creating decorative frames. Get help with the hinges. 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.

Euro or cup hinges are the easiest most forgiving means of hanging your new cabinet doors. Making the door frame. Frame and panel doors add class to any project but they don t have to add a lot of assembly time. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation.

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. Clearly this test shows that the mortise tenon joint is superior to other joints. To even up the ends of the door cut 1 16 in. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible.

Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. But traditionally the strongest wood joint has been a mortise and tenon including both a blind tenon and a through tenon. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. Biscuit joiners allow you to make solid precise joints accurate enough to build fine cabinets.

The trick to successful biscuit joinery is cutting the slots in. From each end using the table saw. It took 4 733 lbs force nearly 2 1 2 tons to pull apart. Using the straightforward process detailed here you can crank out great looking doors for many applications including furniture cabinets and built ins.

For a mortise tenon joint the wood failed but not the joint. 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. Building shaker cabinet doors is only part of the story.