All solid face frame edging 3 4 thick mortise tenon joinery even on the 3 4 wide face frames.
Kitchen cabinet face frame dimensions.
Question in the past i have been building exclusively overlay face frame cabinets but lately i have been getting some inset door jobs.
Center or divider rails typically measure 2.
I do not use edge tape because i believe it is strictly cheap junk.
Face frames on sides of kitchen cabinets should overlap 1 4 in.
Begin with the right cabinet dimensions.
A face frame does a better job of this if it overlaps the box edges a bit.
Face frames cover plywood edges.
The bottom rail is almost always 1 1 4 to 1 1 2 inches in width.
Making the face frame run past all the plywood edges provides a little wiggle room and hides not so perfect saw cuts on the plywood.
The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups.
All natural wood characteristics are acceptable on the inside edges.
For the overlay doors i have been making all perimeter rails and.
Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation.
Thoughts about choosing practical and attractive dimensions for face frames cabinet door stiles and rails and drawer fronts.
Please note that assembled face frames will have a size tolerance of 1mm on the overall sizes and 1mm within each opening.
Base cabinets wall cabinets and tall specialty cabinets all have their own range of standard sizes.
Standard stile rail dimensions for face frames is 1 1 2.
On the outside edge.
The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible.
I might use a 1 1 2 stile where the cabinet butts up to the wall then 3 4 stiles where i have a single vertical stile in the center of a cabinet and perhaps 1 or 1 1 4 rails.