![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Let the stain dry, before coating with the clear finish. I also prefer the gelled stain for furniture - rub it in with a rag. I like the professional Varathane which dries quickly and leaves a nice finish with a brush, as long as the temperature is above 50 degrees F. Don't use a latex type of stain or Varathane, go with the oil based. When the stain dries apply a Varathane clear finish in satin or semi-gloss, rather than gloss. The pores of the wood are all closed from the fine sanding and won't let the stain penetrate. One of the problems I have encountered with homeowners is that they sand a project too smooth before applying the stain. This should be sanded off or roughed up, with the grain, so the stain will cover evenly - use a 120 grit sandpaper before you stain. Plywood will come with what is called a mill glaze over it. The spline makes an added feature as seen from the top or bottom.īefore staining or finishing the cabinet doors and china cabinet, sand lightly all over. Trim the splines off flush with the top and bottom and stain or paint the cabinet doors. Notice how the cabinet door stiles overlap the ends of the rails. An optional method would be to half-lap the lattice at their intersecting joints. Glue the butt joints to the stiles and rails of the cabinet door, make them fit tight. Add a lattice of 1/4" thick bars about 5/8" wide. If the glass breaks, the stop can be removed without having to throw the cabinet door frame away. Rip a stop for the glass to fit in this rabbet, allow for the thickness of glass. Finish the rip in the corners with a sharp chisel. Leave the dado intact at the corners for the spline. Rip off the back side of the dado just around the perimeter of the glass panel. To make a cabinet door with a glass panel instead of a plywood panel, which is ideal to show off your fine china in a kitchen cabinet or in a separate china cabinet or curio cabinet, dado the stiles and rails to fit the same splines as in the panel cabinet doors. Make sure the units are assembled on a flat bench and weighted down to keep them true and flat. The cabinet door unit is glued up and clamped together to dry overnight. A spline is inserted with glue into each corner to fill the dado and provide stability. The stiles and rails of the cabinet door are cut to length and then dadoed to fit the 1/4" plywood panel. You can reveal the stiles to the rails, as shown, or sand smooth. Basically it is designed like a Shaker door with a 1/4" plywood panel surrounded by four sides that have been dadoed out to receive the panel. I've designed a panel type of cabinet door which is quite easy for the handyman. Raised panel cabinet doors are usually bought or made by those with expensive tools or router bits. Install door pulls or knobs on the cabinet doors as desired. The cabinet door should have a magnetic closer installed under a shelf and the plate on the door. Notice the screws are different for the front and back. Come down from the top and up from the bottom of the cabinet door about 3" when installing the hinges.įor a face frame cabinet, if the Amerock style overlap hinges are chosen for design, they should be self closing and should come with screws for the front and back as well as little bumpers. Tall cabinet doors, as shown in the drawing, should have three sets of hinges along the side, shorter cabinet doors need only two. The cabinet door should overlap the face frame or gable by about 1/2" to 5/8", depending on the hinges you have chosen. Be careful to include the thickness of molding in your measurements when cutting the cabinet door to size. MDF, if painted, is an ideal material for cabinet doors since no grain appears on the edges. I used this design with melamine, trimming it with oak molding. Keep the molding flush with the back of the cabinet door. This is particularly useful to hide the grain of plywood. Going a bit further, instead of routering a profile on the edge of the cabinet door, you could apply a small molding on the edge similar to applying square edging or tape. Similar to this style would be the same plain plywood or MDF with a small molding nailed and glued in the form of a pattern on the face of the door, such as shown on the left. This should give fewer problems with warping. When purchasing the plywood or MDF always buy a sheet that lies flat on the pile. To start with, the easiest cabinet doors to make is a slab door made from plywood or MDF with the edges rounded over or profiled and a square pattern routered out in the center. In this article I will discuss some ways a person having the basic shop tools can build his own kitchen cabinet doors or China cabinet doors or even curio cabinet doors.
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