Scott Davis
02-21-2021, 9:05 PM
I am hoping for some advice.
I have made some cabinets but always single ones, I am now working on some built ins for our play room.
There are two pairs of cabinets where the lower box is an open shelf and the upper box will have doors.
I made 2" faceframes. I left a 1/4" over hang on the FF's because it says in many posts this aids installation. After assembly of the frames, I sanded them, mistakenly not thinking about keeping that surface nice and flat. There were some tiny variances where the styles overhung a 1/32" or so that I was working to get perfectly flat. Now that I have glued them to the box, I can see the two FF edges on separate boxes, that will be attached to each other, have a few low spots from the sanding.
I am not sure the best way to try to fix this? I don't have a hand plane but maybe I should get one anyways. A flush trim bit is an option but because these cabinets stack, I would be going over end grain on the stiles on each end. This would also removed my 1/4" overhang which was supposed to help me later installation. I don't know a way to only remove say 1/8" leaving a smaller overhang.
Any thoughts on what I should/could do? I could go with what I have, but there are little gaps between the FF's in a few places. I am probably the only one that would see it.
I have made some cabinets but always single ones, I am now working on some built ins for our play room.
There are two pairs of cabinets where the lower box is an open shelf and the upper box will have doors.
I made 2" faceframes. I left a 1/4" over hang on the FF's because it says in many posts this aids installation. After assembly of the frames, I sanded them, mistakenly not thinking about keeping that surface nice and flat. There were some tiny variances where the styles overhung a 1/32" or so that I was working to get perfectly flat. Now that I have glued them to the box, I can see the two FF edges on separate boxes, that will be attached to each other, have a few low spots from the sanding.
I am not sure the best way to try to fix this? I don't have a hand plane but maybe I should get one anyways. A flush trim bit is an option but because these cabinets stack, I would be going over end grain on the stiles on each end. This would also removed my 1/4" overhang which was supposed to help me later installation. I don't know a way to only remove say 1/8" leaving a smaller overhang.
Any thoughts on what I should/could do? I could go with what I have, but there are little gaps between the FF's in a few places. I am probably the only one that would see it.