Woodworker's Journal fall-2010, страница 36

Cabinet Door Dreamin'

Make your cabinet projects both

functional and unforgettable with a dazzling door design.

By Chris Marshall

In the pages that follow this article, Bill Hylton will show you how to build Euro-style cabinets. But as you plan your cabinet design, don't make short shrift of the doors. Euro-style cabinets are all about the doors. Here are some ideas to get you started.

Door Styles: Slab vs. Frame & Panel

If you'd like a fast and easy solution, slab-style doors built from solid-wood panels or edge-banded plywood could be perfect To invigorate them, use showy, figured wood or book-matched veneer. Let the wood's natural beauty and pattern sparkle. You can even dress up the door edges with a rout-ed profile.

Frame-and-panel doors will take longer to build, but you'll have a much

wider palette of design options, and they may stay flatter in the long run, too. First consider each part of the fame-and-panel door independently.

Frame Variations: Generally, door frame rails and stiles are the same width, but that's not set in stone. Experiment with wider rails; they may help wide doors look narrower. Or, shape a wider top rail into an arch or cathedral to soften the rectilinear look.

Using cope-and-stick bits on the router table does more than just mill sturdy corner joinery.

They also help introduce some ^jpt attractive contours and

• shadow lines to your door

frames. Bit sets come ^fr in classical bead, quar-

ter-round, beveled and ogee profiles. Pick up a router bit catalog and explore the many options.

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