Woodworker's Journal 2001-25-2, страница 67

ihe piece, even if the case musl be assembled. Al least you'll have fewer inside corners to deal with.

On raised panel doors, you can finish ihe panels first, assemble them, then finish the frames afterwards, as shown at right. Why bother? With floating panels, there is room for slain to collect in the groove where they enter the frame. Thai excess stain can run back out when you lift up the door. Another advantage comes later, when the piece is all finished and subjected to winter heating. Often a panel will dry out and shrink enough during the heating season so that an unfinished line shows where the panel meets the frame. If you prefinish the entire panel, even the part that will be captured by the frame, there will never be an unfinished line, no matter how much ihe panel shrinks.

With raised panel doors, finish the panels first to avoid an unfinished line ialer.

How To Do It

The prefinishing process is simple. Sand all the parts to the point where they are ready for their first coal of finish. Mark off the areas lhat will be glue surfaces and mask them. In most cases, this will mean dry assembling the parts, then marking the edge of the glue line lightly in pencil, as I'm doing in tin* photo above. Mask just about 1/16" inside the pencil line. That will let the finish

Mark glue surface areas with a pencil line at the joint, then mash the area inside the line.

go slightly under the joint so youll never have raw wood showing, but not far enough to weaken the glue joint itself. Lay down the masking tape and burnish the edges with a tool handle or smooth piece of wood to guarantee a crisp, ihin edge. Remove the light pencil line with an art gum eraser, or by wiping it wilh some denatured alcohol. On a mortise and tenon,

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