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Chisel Rack - Day 5
Entered: 2010-01-19
Edited: 2010-01-19
Type: woodworking
On the chisel rack's fifth day of construction I started building the doors. I've never built doors for a cabinet before so this part has taken me a bit of extra time and I'm afraid is the point in this build where I'll stop writing this like a how-to guide and just start showing off my progress. It's too time consuming to deal with all the pictures and the write up while also trying to actually do the build and I really don't want blogging about building the cabinet to start getting in the way of actually building the cabinet ;-)
For this cabinet I'm building a pair of raised, frame and panel doors. A frame and panel door is built just like it's name suggests with a frame made of narrow pieces of wood surrounding a panel captured in a groove running along the inside edge of the frame. The raised panel just means that instead of being flat the panel has a bevel running on all four sides to give it depth and a fancier appearance. The big advantage to using a frame and panel construction is that it's much less likely to warp with humidity changes than a door made of a single, solid piece of wood.
My first step in building the doors was to get an accurate measurement of the cabinet carcass - two feet even. That means each door needs to be one foot wide. Then I rough cut my frame pieces out slightly over sized. Cutting them out bigger than I need gives me a lot of room to trim things square and even during the final fitting before hanging the doors.
After roughing them out I then went on to make sure everything was the same width and thickness and that matching parts were the same length. When building a door this way you have a pay particular attention that everything is square and even because you have very little margin of error for getting the door to hang straight and close flat.
At the end of the day, about four hours of work, I'm left with eight little pieces of wood that are all square and even. Seems like a lot of time to spend for little reward but it will have been worth the effort when I start putting the doors together.
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