![]() ![]() One thing I am concerned about though, had I known when I bought the lumber months ago, most of my hard maple I have found is flat sawn I just read in Woodworking mag Summer ’09 that flat sawn wood is the most prone to movement compared to quarter sawn or rift sawn, so should I be concerned about movement if making 6 or 7” wide drawer fronts from flat sawn hard maple? I bought it because the price was good but I guess now I will be more careful picking out wood, I guess quarter sawn is more expensive. I am thinking about going with 2 3/8 or 2.5 “ rails and stiles for the doors and large drawer fronts and then just flat panel hardwood for the narrower drawers. Since I am doing raised panels with that shaker bit set that for the drawers I assume I would have to go with just a flat panel without rails and stiles (for the 6 or 7 inch drawers), because if I go with 2.5" rails and stiles that leaves only an and inch or 2 for the panel and that would not even be enough to show the panel bevel do you agree? Just to clarify, I am assuming that by ”reveal" above, Stan means the amount the raised panel is visible, is this correct?Īlso does Stan mean to place spaceballs close to the ends of the stiles (for 2” narrow stiles)? If you get the panels too narrow it won't leave much room for fingers.Īll that being said, I am seriously considering going to 2 1/2" R&S for future work, because of the appearance. The perpendicular junctions of the stiles and rails are where the panels of the doors. In a panel door, the construction consists of vertical lengths of wood called stiles, and horizontal lengths of wood called rails. If you are doing mission-style with flat (NOT raised) panels, that means the handles are also recessed 1/4", if mounted on the centers. In the most basic sense, the difference between a panel door and a flush door has to do with how each is constructed. ![]() However, the one thing to watch out for are the drawer handles. So appearance-wise this was not an issue. Also have one door that is very narrow for a tray cupboard, again no problem. The top drawer fronts are 6 1/2" total, and that means a panel with a 2" reveal. I just finished a cherry kitchen that has R&S doors and drawers, with the rails & styles all at 2 1/4" width. The other is that if you use space balls to stop rattle you have to make sure they are close to the ends, or they can push out and cause the rails or styles to warp. You start to run into problems with the cup holes for the hinges, for one thing. That brings me to another question – what is the widest single board I would want to use for either a raised panel, or just a panel without rail and stile construction (say for a 5 or 6 inch deep drawer), before I start gluing up panels? Is there a general rule like boards should be no more than 3 or 4 inches wide and then one should start gluing up to prevent warping if they get wider than that?įor me, 2" rails & styles are just too narrow. Would it look weird if I did 2.5 inch wide rails and stiles for the narrow drawers and pantry panels (because the raised panels would be narrower than that rails and stiles)? Or should I just go with a glued up plank of wood without rails and stiles for the narrow stuff? The narrowest panels I need are for 2 pull out spice racks of which the panels will measure 8 inches wide and some drawers which measure 7" high by about 30" wide, and my biggest drawer the panels would be about 31 inches wide x 21" high. What I am wondering is what would be a good width for my rails and stiles - I guess they should all be the same width. WDMA and AWS custom grade product specifications compliance.I am starting to build my raised panels for our kitchen cabinets with Sommerfeld’s shaker style profile set – I’m doing hard maple. Commercial hardware machining capabilities. ![]() Specials/Custom capabilities in terms of door design and wood species. FSC and No Added Urea Formaldehyde products, Leed project contributor.Industries widest range of standard door designs and inventoried veneers. The industry’s finest “furniture” level quality backed by today’s most sophisticated machinery. Limited lifetime warranty on all interior doors.
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