Dylan Borcoli
10-21-2013, 12:29 PM
When kitchen cabinet full overlay doors (being ordered from a separate company) are supposed to have typical gaps, but nice straight lines, do you recommend ordering the doors slightly larger and hand-planing them down? Or would you just order them to the measurement? If it's better to order larger, how much extra would you add? I can imagine that putting too much extra margin would result in a lot of hand planing. I read about this technique for flush inset doors but I am not sure if it is done this way for full overlay. Is there a certain gap where the hand planing technique (vs. just measuring) is done? For example, if the gap is to be 1/16 then order doors with slightly larger margins and hand plane, but not if the gap is 1/4 etc.