Cabinet Frame Joints

Learn the steps to creating pocket joints in your woodworking projects.

Cabinet frame joints.

The pencil marks also come in handy when you re ready to sand the assembled frame in your kitchen cabinet plans. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. Face frames cover plywood edges. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible.

A miter joint occurs when two end pieces are cut on angles and fitted together commonly found in the corners of picture frames and the upper corners of some styles of doorway. Plan to use 1 3 or 1 4 hardwood boards for the door s frame. Store bought wood has very straight and square edges. It took 4 733 lbs force nearly 2 1 2 tons to pull apart.

Label all the pieces with a pencil so the frame goes back together the same way you laid it out. Pocket joints work great for cabinet face frames and other similar applications where a lot of strength is not needed. Clearly this test shows that the mortise tenon joint is superior to other joints. Dry fit face frame parts so the best side of all the boards will be seen avoiding stark grain color variations at joints.

Walzcraft offers integral beaded face frames with haunched joints and dado grooves for face frame designs incorporating a beaded detail around each opening. A dado is nothing more than a square grooved slot on one board where another board will fit. Dado 559 lbs force screws did not help. Join our mailing list sign up to receive the latest news promotions and design tips from the cabinet joint.

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. For a mortise tenon joint the wood failed but not the joint. When it comes to assembling face frames for cabinets there s nothing faster than pocket hole joints each joint takes about 90 seconds apiece using a store bought jig. Diy shaker cabinet doors.

Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation. This design style allows you to integrate our fs101 or fs103 bead detail onto your face frame without the need for an applied molding. The actual dimensions will be 3 4 x 2 1 2 in. Biscuit miter joint 220 lbs force.

These are just nominal dimensions of course. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. Attaching the frame to the case hides the holes.