Daniel Bejarano
02-06-2022, 11:36 PM
Hi everyone,
I am building two set of doors, each door is 29" x 95" x 1-3/4" thick. So they are big doors. I will be using poplar. They are paint grade. The styles are 5" and starting from the top the rails are 5", 6" and 8", so they carry two panels (mdf 1/2") each. And they also carry a molding hence the idea of using just a set of male and female shaper knives that give me a cope and stick joint. But being these doors so big I am almost convinced they need a big tenon, so I am having trouble deciding how to build them strongly.
One way would be to groove the pieces first for the panel, run the pieces on the shaper to get the profile with only one knife, (so flip the pieces to get the same profile on both sides. And enlarge the groove with a mortising machine ( that I don't have but that mmmaybe could borrow) where the rails go for a big tenon that I can indeed do at the table saw. Or maybe do this step first so the mortising machine doesn't deflect when enlarging the groove for the tenons.
They are closet doors so they won't get the same traffic that normal doors get. Would it be enough using the small tenon the cope and stick knives give me, knowing that I could perhaps glue the mdf panel to the doors?
Any advice would be really appreciated
Daniel
I am building two set of doors, each door is 29" x 95" x 1-3/4" thick. So they are big doors. I will be using poplar. They are paint grade. The styles are 5" and starting from the top the rails are 5", 6" and 8", so they carry two panels (mdf 1/2") each. And they also carry a molding hence the idea of using just a set of male and female shaper knives that give me a cope and stick joint. But being these doors so big I am almost convinced they need a big tenon, so I am having trouble deciding how to build them strongly.
One way would be to groove the pieces first for the panel, run the pieces on the shaper to get the profile with only one knife, (so flip the pieces to get the same profile on both sides. And enlarge the groove with a mortising machine ( that I don't have but that mmmaybe could borrow) where the rails go for a big tenon that I can indeed do at the table saw. Or maybe do this step first so the mortising machine doesn't deflect when enlarging the groove for the tenons.
They are closet doors so they won't get the same traffic that normal doors get. Would it be enough using the small tenon the cope and stick knives give me, knowing that I could perhaps glue the mdf panel to the doors?
Any advice would be really appreciated
Daniel