First of all, I don’t belong here. I’ve a shop full of tools, but don’t use them much anymore. Doing all kinds of cabinet work and built-ins, I focus more now on the design, then outsource virtually everything.
It is fun and profitable. Maybe I’ll get back to actually making things someday, but for now, I’m in a groove.
This one, I sort of dreamed it up listening to the interior designer say what she wanted as a treatment. It is a stile and rail and panel backing for a group of ceiling-hung cabinets. My sketch is attached, the one I just emailed off to my supplier of cabinet doors. They are going to be scratching their heads on Monday, figuring out some approach using CNC or something.
The pic is not detailed, in that it is not showing that the panels are raised, and that the inside surround, the molded shape given the INSIDE edges of all stiles and rails surrounding panels, are a beaded ogee pattern. The outside perimeter is meant to be square.
How would you address the ELL joint? Where the inside corner is that is supposed to show two square edges meeting at the 90. Would that be a careful rip-off of the coming-through-the-joint stile, taking off the bead and groove, then a grain-matched glue-on?
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Gene,
My suggestion would be to make a coped cap 13 3/4" long to complete the vertical piece that extends below the main frame. If I am making any sense, it would add an eighth of an inch to the stile width. If you could live with the slight difference in width, it would make for an easy fix to a tricky quandry.
Regards,
Sean
Gene,
I can think of several ways to do this, but since it is meant to be a room divider and the stresses on it are minimal, the absolute simplest way will work just fine: Glue the whole frame together using dowel joints or loose tenons, then apply the ogee bead around the inside of each frame part. This will create the rabbet to lay the raised panels in, and finally lock them in place with another round of ogee beading.
David Ring
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Gene ,
The way I do those intersections is like you mentioned by running the stile the whole way then ripping off the detail where the L is and use a hand saw to crosscut it off.
You will see the joint from the under side , but if done crisply they look fine. So standard stile and rail except that one long stile gets sliced and diced.
I can send a photo of a small mock up I save for this very type of intersection.
dusty
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Photo, please. If it's a jpeg you can post it right here.
Thanks.
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"A stripe is just as real as a dadgummed flower."
Gene Davis 1920-1985
Gene ,
I created openings in some cases where another door was there .
You could fill in with a matching piece or leave it as the end of the case .
If it's done crisply it can simply be a detail .
hope this helps .
dusty
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