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FURNITURE DOOR sa FRAME & PANEL DOOR sa FURNITURE DOOR LOCK & LATCH sa KITCHEN CABINET DOOR & DRAWER sa TAMBOUR x CABINET DOOR xx DOOR xx FURNITURE Anatomy of hidden pocket doors, the style often found on audio-video furniture. Details on their operation and construction. Tip on using bullet catches to reduce the friction of sliding glass doors in cabinets. Glass light doors for corner cabinets and Dutch cupboards. How to make them easily using new router bits. Choices for cabinet doors. Five basic constructions that fit any style of case (solid wood frame with solid wood panel, solid wood frame with thin panel, flat door, flat panel with solid wood frame, and board-and-batten door. Advice on making cupboard doors with "tombstone" style glass lights. Flush-fit (inset) cabinet doors. A simple jig facilitates getting a perfect fit. How to tool aluminum cabinet door panels. Includes pattern in Pennsylvania Dutch style. Simple jig for uniformly aligning the screw holes for knobs, pulls, and hinges on furniture doors. Fitting inset cabinet doors. Tips on making punched copper (or tin) inserts for cabinet doors. How to build sliding cabinet doors that pass each other without visible tracks or grooves and that close flush. Bathroom built-ins. Precise alignment and production techniques are the key to building overlay doors (with concealed hinges) and drawers. Pattern for a hybrid cabinet door that is neither solid nor frame-and-panel. Tips on making curved cabinet doors using the torsion-box technique. Solid-wood cupboard doors are curved (coopered) and assembled from narrow strips. Swivel joints provide flexibility in assembling the doors to the desired radius. Stop molding for glazed crowned-frame doors is made by laminating veneer strips in a simple mold. Coping with sash. Making a coped sash frame for glazed cabinet doors. Both machine and hand methods are described. Tip on building battened cabinet doors to allow for wood movement. Tip: Make cabinet door bumpers from vinyl-foam weatherstripping. Making barred-glass doors is simplified by building the lattice frame in subassemblies and using epoxy to join the rib frames. Tip on making a replacement latticework for a reproduction barred-glass door. Disappearing doors provide easy cabinet access. Selecting and installing pocket-door hardware systems in applications like a television cabinet. Piano hinges and beveled frames allows the door of a free-standing cabinet to open 270-degrees and lay flat against the side of the cabinet. Fitting flush-mounted furniture doors. This step-by-step procedure ensures small, even gaps. Curved cope and stick. Router templates are used to make decorative window sash (or frame-and-glass-panel cabinet doors) which incorporate curved window bars. Glazing cabinet doors. Using beveled strips to hold glass firmly in place. Coopering a cabinet door. Accurately beveled staves produce a graceful curve. How to repair cabinet doors. Homemade hardware for supporting curved sliding cabinet doors. Solid wood coopered doors on a cabinet require a good jig. One jig style shown. Coved coopered doors. A curved, fluted door for a cabinet is made by covering separate cores of bending plywood with solid edge bands and face veneer prior to edge-gluing to make the door. Acrylic plastic projects include decorative vases, bowls, jars and cabinet doors. Tip on supporting a stained-glass insert in a cabinet door frame. Cabinet doors double as magazine display racks. Stressed-skin doors for storage cabinets are lightweight and strong. These "doors" which cover built-in bookshelves, storage cupboards, or windows are actually decorative window shades that pull up from the floor. Cords attached to the shade are used to raise and lower them. How to build cabinet doors. Includes arched raised panel, raised panel, four panel, horizontal V-groove, glass pane, vertical V-groove, flush panel, plastic laminate, hardwood veneer plywood, and applied wood molding. How to give cabinet doors decorative panels of "diamond mesh". The ABC's of building chests and cabinets. Four kinds of doors reviewed. Unique way to make cupboard doors where four or more doors are needed to cover the front of a wall of cupboards. Cut a piece of plywood to cover the entire front of cupboard. Draw the doors on the piece and cut almost, but not entirely, through the piece. Install hinges. Hang entire piece which can still be handled because cuts were not completed. After installing, finish cutting with hand saw. Designing for dimensional change. How to orient the grain and use appropriate joints and fasteners when building wood furniture in order to minimize the effects of expansion and contraction on drawers, doors, tops, etc. Tip on removing the twist in a cabinet door. Technique for mounting pairs of full-overlay cabinet doors to establish a consistent gap. Dowel panels form a vented cabinet door for less than the cost of louvers. Cabinet features two doors which meet in the center along a curved line, instead of the normal, straight, vertical seam. Tip: How to make cabinet doors from old washboards. Tip: Use carbon paper to locate the high spots causing doors to stick. Five great router tricks. (1) Template for cutting smooth circles. (2) Making fixed-louver inserts. (3) Biscuit joinery. (4) Making simple cabinet door frames with a 3/8" rabbeting bit. (5) Jig for trimming solid-wood edge banding flush with the surface. Tip on driving brads into panel stops without scratching the glass panels. Seven steps to building and installing flush-mounted (inset) furniture doors. Fail-safe hinge jig is used to accurately transfer inset cabinet door hinge locations from door to carcase. Tip: How to glue and clamp stops to hold glass in small door frames. Tip: Use brown paper strips to glue the glass stops into rabbets in the frame of a glass-panel door. Alternative method for holding a piece of glass in a wooden frame does not use the typical quarter-round glass stops. How to fit inset doors. Tip on fitting inset doors to a cabinet using a router equipped with a flush-trim bit. Tips on fabricating cabinet glazing bars using hand methods. Both straight and curved bars are discussed. Tip on using carbon paper to locate high spots on sticking cabinet doors. Unique cabinet doors are woven from wood. A simple wooden frame strung with plastic clothes line and woven with wood slats to form a cabinet door or a window shutter. Tips on installing doors that are flush with cabinet face frames. | |||||||||
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