The task of
cutting the cockbead molding is just a lot of fine trimming of the pieces. I have cut each
piece about 1/4" longer at the compound sliding miter saw and am using the guillotine
trimmer to make the final cuts.
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The trick is not to get the length right the first trim, but to shave it down
slowly so that the piece will fit exactly. Once it is right, I add glue along the length.
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I use 1" brads to tack
the strip in place and then on to the next piece.
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Here are the first two drawer openings. This process is time consuming,
but it is worth doing right.
I am stopping for the day and will finish in the morning. Then, I can start
making the doors and drawer fronts.
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It's a new day and I
have spent an hour finishing adding the cockbeading around each of the drawer and door
openings.
I plan to use the new Raised Panel Doors software that I recently installed
on my PC. It worked very well on the cabinets for Debbie's kitchen. I start by accurately
measuring the openings of each space.
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I can't
show you all of the program here, but this will give you an idea of how I use it. This
screen is for single panel doors. There are all sorts of other choices. Before I selected
this screen, I inserted a number of options that I want to use, such as: stile and rail
width, bit depth, inset or overlay doors, etc. With those set, I only have to insert in
the upper right the Opening Width and Opening Height and press
"Calculate" at the bottom of the page.
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It takes a
nano-second for it to calculate, and then I press the Print Preview to get a drawing with
the individual measurements of the rails, stiles and panels.
I have done raised panel doors for years and computing the measurements is
pretty easy to do if you are careful in your calculations, but I really like this program.
It is inexpensive and exact and makes it easy to experiment. For example, I usually make
stiles and rails 2 7/16" wide. This measurement makes it easy to compute the needs
because it takes into consideration the grooving depth of the CMT set.
But, this time, I wanted to make as narrow a rail and stile as I could that
would still allow a 35mm hinge. I used 2 inches. I input that and instantly all
measurements were re-calculated. I like it.
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Having ripped all the
poplar to 2 inches, I use the printouts from Raised Panel Doors to quickly cut the rail
and stile pieces.
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I have my door pieces laid
out with the rails crosswise and the stiles in the vertical direction. I do not want to
cope the wrong ends.
I start by selecting the cope end cutter and will set it up to cope the ends
of the rails.
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The coping cutter is the one
with the bearing in the middle. I install it in the router pressed all the way to the
bottom of the collet. I can do that since I have a 1/2" O-ring in the base of the
collet.
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