Mark Rios
11-22-2006, 03:28 AM
You folks probably won't think this is much of a big deal but it is for me and my limited cabinet making knowledge.
This is the upper cabinet at the right hand end of a run of cabs.
1001
To the immediate left is the microwave cabinet/microwave so the left panel is exposed Maple, meaning that I can't put pocket holes on the outside to attach my faceframe. Well, because I'm a bonehead I forgot to put them on the inside. (Please berate me later :rolleyes: ) The cabinet is glued up as far as you see it. I am doing a couple of other things to it such as putting a dividing wall 8" to the right of the finished panel, where the 45* angle starts.
Well, I can't fit a drill inside to be able to drill my pocket holes on the inside wall of the cab. The cab isn't deep enough and I don't have a drill, out of 6, that will fit. So now I'm trying to figure out how to attach my faceframe to the left cabinet side without using pocket holes.
I don't have a biscuit jointer and I"m not going to buy one for this job. I've never been any good at doweling and I don't have any of those tools either. I'm thinking that I can glue and screw a piece of 3/4" x 3/4" maple behind the faceframe, along the inside edge of the cabinet and, using predrilled :rolleyes: pocket holes, attach the faceframe that way. Will that work?
My concern is that the plywood edge will only be directly attached to the faceframe with glue, as opposed to a glue AND a mechanical fastening like with a normal glue and pocket hole attachment. By gluing the 3/4" maple strip on the inside I can do the mechanical fastening but I'm worried that, being right next ot the stove, the faceframe may start to pull away from the plywood edge and creat a gap. Will glue alone between the faceframe and plywood edge (along with the screws in through the maple strip along the inside edge) prevent the faceframe from pulling away and causing a gap ?
Thanks very much for your help and advice.
This is the upper cabinet at the right hand end of a run of cabs.
1001
To the immediate left is the microwave cabinet/microwave so the left panel is exposed Maple, meaning that I can't put pocket holes on the outside to attach my faceframe. Well, because I'm a bonehead I forgot to put them on the inside. (Please berate me later :rolleyes: ) The cabinet is glued up as far as you see it. I am doing a couple of other things to it such as putting a dividing wall 8" to the right of the finished panel, where the 45* angle starts.
Well, I can't fit a drill inside to be able to drill my pocket holes on the inside wall of the cab. The cab isn't deep enough and I don't have a drill, out of 6, that will fit. So now I'm trying to figure out how to attach my faceframe to the left cabinet side without using pocket holes.
I don't have a biscuit jointer and I"m not going to buy one for this job. I've never been any good at doweling and I don't have any of those tools either. I'm thinking that I can glue and screw a piece of 3/4" x 3/4" maple behind the faceframe, along the inside edge of the cabinet and, using predrilled :rolleyes: pocket holes, attach the faceframe that way. Will that work?
My concern is that the plywood edge will only be directly attached to the faceframe with glue, as opposed to a glue AND a mechanical fastening like with a normal glue and pocket hole attachment. By gluing the 3/4" maple strip on the inside I can do the mechanical fastening but I'm worried that, being right next ot the stove, the faceframe may start to pull away from the plywood edge and creat a gap. Will glue alone between the faceframe and plywood edge (along with the screws in through the maple strip along the inside edge) prevent the faceframe from pulling away and causing a gap ?
Thanks very much for your help and advice.