I am building a vanity (plywood case) for my bathroom and as I was making MT joints for the first pieces of the face frame last night and I got to thinking I should rethink the joint locations. The vanity is 6′ wide has three drawers on one side, two doors in the middle and open shelves on the opposite side. The end uprights of the face frames are extend to the top of the cabinet, but I was going to stop the middle upright face frames below the top rail and above the bottom rail. The face frame rails covering the cabinet drawers go between the uprights. Given that this is moist environment is this plan ok or should I extend the middle uprights to the top and bottom of the cabinet. Maybe I am just overthinking the whole deal? Finish planned will be stain with varathane.
TIA
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Brad , Imo you are going the right direction as far as strength goes .
You will have partition walls behind the up rights to tie it all together , right ?
dusty
It has a full back and sheets behind each face frame.
Thanks
Outside stiles are top to bottom, top and bottom rails got stile to stile. inner stiles end in the rails, they should not break up the rails.
MT joints? Have you considered using pocket screws (e.g., Kreg system)? It's great for face frames.
For looks that is best, but is this the best for shrinkage/swelling? For some reason I like MT joints and with the shaper and Mortise station, it is fairly quick. Not as quick as the Kreg, but fast enough. Obviously I am not a pro, so time is not my biggest concern.
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