Gene E Miller
05-28-2009, 12:20 PM
Greetings & Salutations,
For those of you that followed my thread on building my Murphy Bed you will remember that I had a couple of very old leaded glass doors that I wanted to use in the side cabinets.
However the doors were too big to use as doubles and too small to use as singles for the 24" wide cabinet that I intended to build.
Several people offered suggestions and solutions that I gave a lot of consideration to that would resolve the problem.
What I finally did was frame the old doors with a 1 1/2" mitered picture frame that would expand the length and width of the doors and still keep the original proportions.
The doors were made of oak and I had a piece of 4/4 oak from a previous project that was perfect for what I wanted to do.
I milled the oak down to about .010 proud of the door thickness and cut it to width then mitered all of the ends to wrap the door.
To attach the frame I used #0 biscuits putting 2 on each rail and stile. I thought of putting a biscuit on the mitered ends but after a trial run on some scrap even using the smaller biscuit it was just too close to chance blowing out on the end of the miter.
Here I have the mitered frame dry fitted on the door.
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After doing the dry fit and making sure everything was square I applied glue and using a band clamp and a couple of other clamps to apply moderate pressure (I sure didn't want to break the leaded glass) I glued up each door.
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I took the doors out of the clamps this morning and they look pretty good if I do say so myself.
Today I am going to run them thru the drum sander and get them the same thickness and flat. After that I can then begin to assemble the cabinet and attach the face frame now that I know the final size of the doors.
For those of you that followed my thread on building my Murphy Bed you will remember that I had a couple of very old leaded glass doors that I wanted to use in the side cabinets.
However the doors were too big to use as doubles and too small to use as singles for the 24" wide cabinet that I intended to build.
Several people offered suggestions and solutions that I gave a lot of consideration to that would resolve the problem.
What I finally did was frame the old doors with a 1 1/2" mitered picture frame that would expand the length and width of the doors and still keep the original proportions.
The doors were made of oak and I had a piece of 4/4 oak from a previous project that was perfect for what I wanted to do.
I milled the oak down to about .010 proud of the door thickness and cut it to width then mitered all of the ends to wrap the door.
To attach the frame I used #0 biscuits putting 2 on each rail and stile. I thought of putting a biscuit on the mitered ends but after a trial run on some scrap even using the smaller biscuit it was just too close to chance blowing out on the end of the miter.
Here I have the mitered frame dry fitted on the door.
119373 119374
After doing the dry fit and making sure everything was square I applied glue and using a band clamp and a couple of other clamps to apply moderate pressure (I sure didn't want to break the leaded glass) I glued up each door.
119375 119376
I took the doors out of the clamps this morning and they look pretty good if I do say so myself.
Today I am going to run them thru the drum sander and get them the same thickness and flat. After that I can then begin to assemble the cabinet and attach the face frame now that I know the final size of the doors.