Cabinet Doors plans

[Steven Weinstien]

Hi,

 

Does anyone have plans for making cabinet doors?

 

Thanks

Steven

[Jens Jensen]

I have some  and tried to link it to you but it is not working

 

http://www.woodweb.com/KnowledgeBase/KBCabinetmakingCabinetDoorCons...

 

I hit wrong link  here you go  have at it

[John Schaben]

Ambiguous questions tend to get the same kind of answers. Any particular type of door;  panelled? solid? overlay? inset?  I don't know of any plans per se. but there are several techniques depending on the tools you have available, complexity you want to into and the general design of your project.

[Steven Weinstien]

Hi,

 

Sorry about that John.  I'm not sure what kind of door I want yet.  I'm building a Media Center.  The doors are will be for the base unit of Media Center.  I was thinking maybe a Shaker style door.

 

Thanks

Steven

[John Schaben]

Hi Steven - OK, Shaker style is pretty simple. usually just a flat panel or simple beveled panel inset in a groove along the inside edge of the rails and stiles. The top and bottom rails have a stub tennon to fill the groove and provide a glue surface for the joints. Grooves and tenons can be cut on the table saw or router table. Overall size would be equal to the respective dimensions of the opening plus the amount of overlay desired for each edge. Can't lay my hands on any plans right off the bat, they are really pretty easy to visualize.

You could build the corner joints with pocket scews but that would present two problems. Making stopped grooves on the inside of the rails and stiles so the grooves wouldn't show on the ends and disguising the pockets when the door is opened. Omitting the grooves would also be an option and attach the panels to the rails and stiles with pocket screws also. That would increase the number of pockets to deal with on the inside of the door and make the precision of the cuts more important as it leaves very little opportunity to hide variations in dimensions.
Some idea of the tools you have available and the amount of experience you have would be helpful in coming up with suggestions.

John
Steven Weinstien said:

Hi,

 

Sorry about that John.  I'm not sure what kind of door I want yet.  I'm building a Media Center.  The doors are will be for the base unit of Media Center.  I was thinking maybe a Shaker style door.

 

Thanks

Steven

[shawn]

I dont have any formal plans, but as a novice this is my plan for the inset doors i'm doing for a toy cabinet.

Cut the rails and stiles to size. Use my router to make a groove on the back inside edge of each piece. Pocket screw the frame together. Cut panel to size, glue panel in groove. Fill pocket holes with wood filler (kreg plugs seemed like too much sanding for me because i only have a sanding block, no power) Sand filler when dry. Prime and paint. Not sure if it will work, but i'm gonna give it a go.

Shawn

[John Schaben]

That should work. What you are saying though is you aren't making a groove, you're making a rabbet. You will need to stop it short of the ends of the stiles to keep them from peeking through the top and bottom edges of the door. Also, by glueing the panel in place, you will need to use either plywood or MDF for the panels to avoid issues with wood movement. For inset doors, you will want to keep a 1/8" gap all the way around the door. Therefore, your stile length would be opening height - 1/4" and your rail size would be opening width - (2 times stile width +1/4").

The best way, IMO, to implement this method would be to assemble the frame, then use a rabbeting bit to router out the rabbet for the panel in the back of the frame. You would have to chisel the corners square or round the corners of the panel to fit though.

shawn said:

I dont have any formal plans, but as a novice this is my plan for the inset doors i'm doing for a toy cabinet.

Cut the rails and stiles to size. Use my router to make a groove on the back inside edge of each piece. Pocket screw the frame together. Cut panel to size, glue panel in groove. Fill pocket holes with wood filler (kreg plugs seemed like too much sanding for me because i only have a sanding block, no power) Sand filler when dry. Prime and paint. Not sure if it will work, but i'm gonna give it a go.

Shawn