David Eisan
11-30-2006, 12:48 AM
Hello everyone,
In my last post I had milled up enough rail and stile stock to make 21 doors,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/poplarstickdone.jpg
I don't have any overall great plan on how this kitchen gets built, each step relies on the previous one. All I really started with was the outside dimensions of the spaces the cabinets need to fill.
For making the doors and drawer fronts, I placed painters tape on the boxes and marked out the overlay for doors and drawers,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/tapecupboards.jpg
The hinges are for 3/4" overlay, so that is how far I marked back on all sides, except for a 1/2" overlay where doors meet on a common stile.
Once I had recorded these measurements, I made a cut list from there,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/kbdoorcutlist.jpg
All stiles are the full length. Rails are 4" less on all doors and drawer fronts. Side panels rails are 3-1/4" less to account for the narrow stiles that meet up with the face frames. This is fairly easy math as my rail and stile stock is 2-7/16", 7/16" being the tennon length on the rails. Panels are 1/16" less than the rails and 4-1/16 less than the stiles. The drawer stiles are only 1-7/16", so those panels are only 2-1/16 less than there stiles. It is marginally more complicated than that, but not much.
I cut up two and one half sheets of 1/2" MDF for the 21 panels,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/mdfcutup.jpg
I installed my 15º flat panel raised panel bit in my router table,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/panelbitinstall.jpg
I wasn't getting the size of tongue I wanted, so I removed the bearing to allow a greater depth of cut.
When I was running narrow boards, I used a second piece of MDF behind it to be sure everything wound run straight,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/raisemdfpanel.jpg
You can see here almost all the panels run,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/raisemdfpanel2.jpg
I then primed both sides of the panels with a shellac based primer,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/mdfpanelsprimed.jpg
A light sanding removed all the fuzzies from the panel raising. It was much easier to sand the profile before the doors got glued up.
Not the best pic, but you can see the 84 parts cut up on the jointer that are the rails and stiles for the 21 doors,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/84partscut.jpg
In my last post I had milled up enough rail and stile stock to make 21 doors,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/poplarstickdone.jpg
I don't have any overall great plan on how this kitchen gets built, each step relies on the previous one. All I really started with was the outside dimensions of the spaces the cabinets need to fill.
For making the doors and drawer fronts, I placed painters tape on the boxes and marked out the overlay for doors and drawers,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/tapecupboards.jpg
The hinges are for 3/4" overlay, so that is how far I marked back on all sides, except for a 1/2" overlay where doors meet on a common stile.
Once I had recorded these measurements, I made a cut list from there,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/kbdoorcutlist.jpg
All stiles are the full length. Rails are 4" less on all doors and drawer fronts. Side panels rails are 3-1/4" less to account for the narrow stiles that meet up with the face frames. This is fairly easy math as my rail and stile stock is 2-7/16", 7/16" being the tennon length on the rails. Panels are 1/16" less than the rails and 4-1/16 less than the stiles. The drawer stiles are only 1-7/16", so those panels are only 2-1/16 less than there stiles. It is marginally more complicated than that, but not much.
I cut up two and one half sheets of 1/2" MDF for the 21 panels,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/mdfcutup.jpg
I installed my 15º flat panel raised panel bit in my router table,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/panelbitinstall.jpg
I wasn't getting the size of tongue I wanted, so I removed the bearing to allow a greater depth of cut.
When I was running narrow boards, I used a second piece of MDF behind it to be sure everything wound run straight,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/raisemdfpanel.jpg
You can see here almost all the panels run,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/raisemdfpanel2.jpg
I then primed both sides of the panels with a shellac based primer,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/mdfpanelsprimed.jpg
A light sanding removed all the fuzzies from the panel raising. It was much easier to sand the profile before the doors got glued up.
Not the best pic, but you can see the 84 parts cut up on the jointer that are the rails and stiles for the 21 doors,
http://www.federatedtool.com/david/img/84partscut.jpg