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   seajai | Feb 12, 2008 08:25am | #1

   NG, I would used soild stock for all rails and styles, it is done all the time. I have an 8' pantry cabinet with two 42" tall doors that I made years ago from oak and the doors  are still perfectly straight. Veneering your styles and rails would be a lot of extra work because you would have to attach  thicker pieces of cherry to the sides where the panel grooves would be machined, as well as the other sides, tops and bottoms, so by the time you did that, you wouldn't have much left for birch ply core, but  you would have an awful lot of glue joints that could be failure headaches in the future. IMO,  I would suggest cherry plywood for the panels and soild stock for the rest, you will be much happier.

   To answer your original question, I cut all my veneers to 3/32" and then run them through the drum sander which usually nets me about 1/16" final thickness.

    

   
   

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   Edited 2/12/2008 12:30 am by seajai

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   NOELGRANT | Feb 12, 2008 07:54pm | #3

   Thanks to both of you for your help. I usually take the hard road on things I do and I can see there is a much better way. Thanks for your input guys!NG

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   seajai | Feb 13, 2008 03:48am | #4

   you're welcome 

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   JohnWW | Feb 12, 2008 06:23pm | #2

   If you are talking about building up the stiles from veneered baltic birch I second the comment you have already received, it is way too much work and can still move a bit.

   I would suggest reconsidering running the cabinets all the way to the ceiling, the upper foot or more of the cabinet won't be accessible unless you keep a ladder in the kitchen. Either drop the ceiling over the cabinets or build two doors high, with the short upper section as storage for kitchen gear used only rarely.

   In any case, carefully choose the wood for the stiles and only use the straightest grained quarter sawn wood for the frames, it is the most stable and looks better in the bargain.

   John White