kitchen cupboard doors by greg cheetham flat panel constructions veneered particle board mdf...

Kitchen Cupboard DoorsBy

Greg Cheetham

Flat panel constructions

• Veneered particle board

• MDF• Melamine faced

Particle board• Vinyl face MDF• And others

Vinyl Wrapped Doors

Framed Joints

• Long and short shoulder dowel joint

• Mitre joint – dowelled

FRAME JOINTS Cont’d

• Mortise and tenon-haunch and long and short shoulder

Frame Joints Cont’d

• Dowelled joints – using long and short shoulders

• Dowel joints – in grooved frames

Frame Joints Cont’d

• Matched joints – using specially made router cutters to opposite profiles

Framed Panel Doors

• Timber panels

• Veneered MDF

• Veneered particle board

• Veneered MDF

• Glass panels

• Leadlight panels

• Laminated panels

• Mirrored panels

• Acrylic panels

Panels For Doors

Panels are made using these joints.

•Butt Glued

•Tongue and Grooved

•Lightening joint

•Loose tongue and groove

•Dowel joint

Panel Inserts

• Panels are held in grooves - sometimes with panel mould or bolection mould

Panel Inserts cont’d

• Panels are held in rebates with beads or panel moulds –

Clamping Frames

• Frames need clamping.

• Always use clamping blocks.

• Adhesive will stain the timber if it contacts with clamps.

• Some times frames need to be adjusted square.

THE END

BENCHTOPS

• Particle board with laminate

• Solid timber – “glulam”

• Stainless Steel • Solid – granite, marble• Solid acrylic –