Cabinet Face Frame Material

Standard stile rail dimensions for face frames is 1 1 2.

Cabinet face frame material.

If staining your piece you want to match your face frame wood as closely as possible to your carcass lumber. While it doesn t matter what you build your carcass out of finish wise hidden behind face frame and doors drawers the material you choose for your face frame is the finished look of your cabinet. Please note that assembled face frames will have a size tolerance of 1mm on the overall sizes and 1mm within each opening. A face frame does a better job of this if it overlaps the box edges a bit.

This keeps the costs down think about how expensive it would be to build solid walnut cabinets and the labor less you only have to finish the face frame. Who wants to sand saw marks off the edge of the face frame in a finished cabinet. Solid wood refacing stock rfs100 is the closest match to the grain of new doors and is ideal for face frame applications. All natural wood characteristics are acceptable on the inside edges.

I use wood glue and my k5 kreg jig set for 3 4 material and use 1 1 4 coarse thread pocket hole screws. Now is the time to be lazy if you have the tools. Assembled face frames are only grain and color matched on the faces. Face frames on sides of kitchen cabinets should overlap 1 4 in.

I generally always build my face frames out of 1 2 poplar when painting. It is available in 1 8 3 16 1 4 5 16 3 8 thicknesses at any width between 5 8 6. You guessed it nobody. On the outside edge.

To remove saw marks or other imperfections rip all face frames to 2 1 8 wide on your table saw.