How To Build Face Frame Kitchen Cabinets
Learn how to make simple face frame upper and lower cabinets including doors and drawers.
How to build face frame kitchen cabinets. Making the face frame run past all the plywood edges provides a little wiggle room and hides not so perfect saw cuts on the plywood. Face frames on sides of kitchen cabinets should overlap 14 in. Make sure you clamp down the pieces as you drive your screws.
Heres a list of tips that we felt could help experienced cabinetmakers as well as those just starting their first one. Httpsibuilditcaprojectsbuilding a corner cabinet for the kitchen build video for this cabinet on my home reno. The faceframe is assembled using pockehole screws and attached to a cabinet with glue and clamps.
Building face frame cabinets. Build article for this cabinet project. In this video we show you how we build the face frames for our custom cabinet option.
Cabinets like this are strong and handsome and relatively easy to build. If staining your piece you want to match your face frame wood as closely as possible to your carcass lumber. Quick and easy way to make and attach a face frame to a cabinet using pocket hole screws and glue.
Our trailers are built out of baltic birch plywood and these solid birch face frames blend in nicely. A main function of a face frame is to hide the exposed plywood laminations. I generally always build my face frames out of 12 poplar when painting.
How to make a cabinet frame. A classic way to make cabinets is to build plywood boxes aka carcasses and cover the front with a hardwood face frame. I use wood glue and my k5 kreg jig set for 34 material and use 1 14 coarse thread pocket hole screws.