i have a client that's asking for a style of cabinet door i've never made.... i have some theories on how to do it, but i was wondering how others would achieve this look. they will be painted, as in the picture.
i have a good shaper, with good tooling. i would need to make ~90 doors and panels for a whole house build, so whatever technique i adopt needs to be somewhat scalable.
my gut feel on the possible approaches are:
1) build the doors as a straight shaker, flat MDF panel, and apply a small flat strip (probably mitered) to the inside edge, glued and pinned, caulked, primed and painted
2) build these as mitered doors, made from a single moulded profile including the step and groove (probably a one-step operation on the shaper)
3) build these as single-piece MDF doors, cut on the CNC. (this is my last and least favorite option, i really am not a fan of MDF doors)
any ideas? considerations? thanks.
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