Major
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Article
JAN/FEB
2004
Volume 47/Issue 1
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THIS ISSUE
Project
Articles
•
A New Kitchen
• Wooden Utensil Rack & Knife
Block/Cutting Board
• Gallery Rail Paper Towel Holder
DEPARTMENTS
•
Ask Smitty
• Owner’s Gallery
• Letters from Owners
•
New Baby Workshop Calendar
Academy Notes
Clean
Cuts - Pt. 4- Using Oriental Waterstones
Service Pointers
Keeping
Your MARK V Running Smoothly
Safety Tips
Router Safety
What's
New
Bandsaw
Cover and 6" Drum Sander Sleeves
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The
Kitchen - Part Two
Cabinet Door Ideas
Making The Panels
When making the panels, you have a wide variety of materials from which
to choose. These include not only different woods, but other materials
such as copper, brass, tin, enameled steel, hardboard, plastic or glass.
Most of these materials can be easily machined on your MARK V to create
a variety of styles. Here are just four possibilities;
Raised Panel
Depending on the height and width of your doors, you may have to glue-up
stock, edge-to-edge, to create the large panels you'll need. Make sure
that the end grains “cup” in the same direction, and never dowel
the panel stock together, since dowels could split over time. Joint all
edges, then use a Glue Joint Cutter with your Molder
or Shaper
to assemble your door panels (See Fig. 2).
When making wood door panels, always be sure to cut the panels slightly
smaller to give the wood room to expand and contract without splitting
as the humidity and temperatures of the environment change. Otherwise,
your panels could split the frames on hot, humid days.
To determine how much “play” you should provide for your panels, first determine its critical dimension. Remember that wood expands 10 times more across the grain of the wood than it does with the grain. So, if you run the grain of your panel vertically, the critical dimension will be the width of the panel. If you run the grain horizontally, your critical dimension will be the height of the panel.
Once you've found this dimension, apply this rule of thumb: If the critical dimension is under 12", allow a total of 1/8" of play (1/16" all the way around).If the critical dimension is over 12", allow a total of 1/4" (1/8" all the way around).
Once you've cut your panels, tilt your MARK V's Worktable to 15-degrees, turn your panel on edge and use a Hollow-Ground Planer Saw Blade to cut a bevel all the way around the panel's edges. Adjust your Rip Fence and the height of the Worktable so that the Saw Blade leaves a 1/8" step between the raised surface and the bevel...and so your bevel tapers down to a 3/16" thickness at its outside edges (See Fig. 3). A panel-raising jig can simplify and bring added safety to this task. Here's a link to the plans for building such a jig.
Fancy Panel
As with the raised panel, glue-up your stock and cut it out, slightly
undersized. Set up your MARK V to shape, then select a cutter (or combination
of cutters) that will produce the fancy edge you like best. We used the
Combination
Quarter-Round Cutter to create the panel shown in Fig.
4.
Mount the Cutter on the Shaper with the 1-1/4" Collar and make your first pass, cutting all the way around the edges of the panel. Adjust your depth-of-cut so that the shaper leaves a 1/4" thick tenon on the edge. Change to a 3/4" Collar and make a second pass. By using progressively smaller Collars, you'll avoid “hogging” (taking too big of a bite in a single pass).
After your second pass, the tenon should be about 3/8" wide - wide enough to mount the panel in your rabbeted frame and show off your fancy edging. Additional decorations can be cut in either the edge or the surface of your panel by making additional passes with other Shaper or Molder Cutters.
View
Plans &
Assembly Drawings
•
Work Triangle Diagram
• Fig. 1
• Fig.
2
• Fig. 3
• Fig. 4
• Fig. 5
• Corner
Joint Detail
• Cabinet Door Frame Assembly
•
Assembly of Molding on Penn. Dutch
• Penn. Dutch
Pattern
• Punched
Tin Pattern
