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Would a rail and stile set be siutable for corner joints ? Would it be a good substitute for a lock mitre ? I fairly new to woodwork and was wondering whether I could use set to joint the actual cabinet carcasses as well as building the doors.
Claude
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If I understand your question correctly, I've never tried it, but I suppose you could do it. Stile-and-rail cutters are designed for joining two pieces of wood in the same plane, but if you turn one of them 90 deg. to cut into the face instead of the edge then you'd get a mating joint. It's odd, it's unorthodox, but it's do-able.
*Claude, Are you planning to join the carcass pieces (sides, top, bottom) to each other with this joint or the sides to the face frame? Or both? (I see from one of your earlier posts you're in Europe, so maybe you're building frameless cabinets.) Anyway, as Jed said, I think its do-able, but don't believe it would make as strong a joint as some others. If you are building with plywood or particle board, the piece which you cut by running it vertically past the bit will have a tongue without much resistance to breaking; it doesn't have enough long-grain in it. If you want more of a worked joint than just a butt joint, you might consider either a dado or a dado-and-lip joint. This is similar to a tongue and groove joint: you dado off most of one edge leaving a small tongue; then plow a matching groove to accept the tongue in the other piece. GP.
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