Turning Corners In Cabinets With Angles

[Jay Boutwell]

 With all the accurate miter saws and table saws available and the Kreg Jig pocket screw system of today, the making of angled joints has allowed us to master the art of joining wood together.

 Since building a cabinet that runs along a wall in a straight line requires little or no angle cutting of stock, other that the 90 degree cut to length and join with a pocket screw.  Other configuration require the use of miters and angles.   I was wondering what everyones method is for doing cabinet runs that twist and bend into angles like like 22 1/2 degrees,  45 degrees and or some other angle to fit a wall or build a custom cabinets run other than a straight line or a 90 degree bend.  I know everyone has their own  methods and it would be interesting to hear about everyone's approach to this problem.

[Jay Boutwell]

Thanks Geoff I don't quite understand the image thing.  It duplicates at times. Tried to attach two images and it would not take the image so I sent a second one, and now I see three.  Oh well the more the better, maybe we can sell one of them, you think? have a great day 

Geoff Simpson said:

Niiice.  Great work Jay....i fully understand now

[steve kidd]

jay i now consider you a trouble maker, lol you have peaked my interest in making a project with an angle front. thanks for the interesting posting. i will enjoy trying to make an angled front cabinet. like geoff said, very nice work, can only hope my project looks half as good.

[Jay Boutwell]

Me a trouble maker??? Now lookie here Steve I know you can do it.  I already viewed all your photos. They are very good and I have no doubt that you can build them just as good as I can.  Just think you will get yourself a very fine looking cabinet to keep or to sell to support your habit of cutting that wood up into smaller pieces.  Thanks for the complement..

[steve kidd]

thanks for the vote of cofidence. i have a request to make a very large desk/rack unit for a recording studio, they said they will design it, but i may try to incorporate some angles into it. really like a challange, makes me a better woodworker. i will post pics when i get them, thanks for all the info on making angled joints. also i enjoyed the post about joint strength, mt vs ps. im sure you inspired geoff and me to do something differnet. thanks again.

[Jay Boutwell]

Steve since you brought up the MT thing again, I guess I'll have to share with you this slide show I did for a customer.  But do note there is some PS in there too.  You may have seen this before as I posted it on Jen Jensons page a while ago.   It will take a bit to load.

 

http://smilebox.com/playBlog/4d546b304d6a457a4e54413d0d0a&blogv...

[steve kidd]

very nice project. very nice shop also. was that a accuset ab250bn brad nailer i saw and the porter cable random orbit sander, i am interested in both. i have the before mentioned nailer and the rubber nose piece broke, they dont make a replacement, wondering if you ran into this problem. the sander i got on clearance at lowes, monster sander but i dont think they make it anymore, please let me know about the nailer and sander. thanks for the video, really liked it and the shop.

[R. E. Woods]

I am hoping to build a corner cabinet.  The pictures are test cuts of the angled side and back. The cuts are 45 degrees and pocketholes should work. the cabinet will work in a corner or against a wall.

[Jay Boutwell]

Greetings R.E.  I looked at the two enclosed photos and read the above  comment.  I do not understand exactly what you are meaning. If you are asking if this is the correct method for making a corner sink and if this is the correct manner to cut the stock for pocket screws. My answer would be "no." To correctly use the  Kreg jig you need to make all your pockets in a piece of 90 degree stock and attach the 45 degree miter into that.  You would then trim off the exposed toe of the miter.  it would look like this:In your photos below you have a miter on each end of your stock thus trying to make the jig work correctly can not happen.  In the above photo the 45 degree miter is on one stick and the other is a 90 degree square cut. The pocket holes are then cut in the 90 degree square cut.  You sand off or cut of the mitered toe on the black line drawn above.  This gives you a 45 degree angle attached with pocket screws.  In the photo  above the pocket screws are on the other side.  Besure to drill the pocket holes on the side you do not want to be exposed viewIf you will supply me with enough information as to exactly what you are looking for as well as some photo of where it is going  such as the walls involved, I will be very happy to diagram you the cuts needed.  In your photos it is not clear to me as to where the front is and or were the sides are.  With a phot of the wall and the loactionwhere it will go will give me enough information of which I can diagram the cuts for you.  look forward to you reply.  Have a great day....

[R. E. Woods]

I have seen the method you mentioned. It seems burdensome to sand off the toe since I don't have a great sander. After cutting test pieces and drilling them the pocketholes seem like they work. Thanks for the input.

[Jay Boutwell]

R.E. looks good to me. I wasn't sure if you were needing information or showing me what you were doing.  Now that I see the total drawing I see nothing wrong with your method in fact that I think it is a very good plan.  Besure to share it on the community when you are finished.  Thanks for sharing. lol  

[Michael Campbell]

Jay,  I really like that method.  I will try it on my next non 90 corner it looks good.  Thanks for the idea

[Scott]

But where are the pocket holes?

I cannot tell from the 2 photos.

 

Curious...

Scott

R. E. Woods said:

I am hoping to build a corner cabinet.  The pictures are test cuts of the angled side and back. The cuts are 45 degrees and pocketholes should work. the cabinet will work in a corner or against a wall.