Roger Troost
09-09-2010, 7:49 PM
I am doing a contemporary kitchen and dining room with flat paneled doors using Brookline paper-backed composite veneers. It's beautiful stuff and can't be beat for consistent grain and color.
A few of the upper cabinets will have glass panels, and since the composite veneers don't have a complementary lumber available that I can make these doors out of I need to create my own "lumber" for the rails and stiles.
This will involve applying the veneers to a substrate, edgebanding, then treating it as if it was dimensioned lumber.
I prefer to have mitred corners, otherwise I would just use mdf panels, cut out the middle, do my edgebanding and rabbet for the glass.
I'm not sure what to use for the substrate. Plywood? MDF? Hardwood?
Does anybody have experience with this?
Thanks, Roger
A few of the upper cabinets will have glass panels, and since the composite veneers don't have a complementary lumber available that I can make these doors out of I need to create my own "lumber" for the rails and stiles.
This will involve applying the veneers to a substrate, edgebanding, then treating it as if it was dimensioned lumber.
I prefer to have mitred corners, otherwise I would just use mdf panels, cut out the middle, do my edgebanding and rabbet for the glass.
I'm not sure what to use for the substrate. Plywood? MDF? Hardwood?
Does anybody have experience with this?
Thanks, Roger