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I've repaired doors before as suggested by jteneyck. I even made a missing rail for a small cabinet door. Take your time and the cuts will never be noticed.
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(11-22-2020, 05:09 PM)TDKPE Wrote: That’s an interesting option. I rather like it. The mismatched joints will only be visible with the drawer pulled out, so no worries there. I was thinking about a butt splice just outside of the original, or either straight or wedge tongue and groove (for which I have cutters), but two vertical lines right next to each other would be pretty visible from the front.
Your method, if I don’t botch it, would keep that single joint line (only) where it is. Need to study it some more.
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It's the cheap way of creating the look of cope and stick joints, too. I used it to do the joints on some arched French doors I built a few years ago. I made the 45 deg cuts with a jig to guide a pull saw.
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Then I cut the sticking off on the bandsaw, leaving just a little bit to clean up with a flush trim bit in the router, and a bullnose plane and/or plane blade. And if I have to trim the 45 deg cuts to get a perfect fit I use the plane blade guided by the cutoff jig. You can easily shave a few thousandths at a time, nice and clean.
It should fit together like this, impossible to tell the difference to a cope/stick joint except from the top/bottom of the door.
It's not hard, and your parts are small enough that they will be easy to handle. Cut proud, pare to fit. You'll be fine.
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There are still some very smart people here.
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(11-22-2020, 09:43 PM)toolmiser Wrote: There are still some very smart people here.
Still here? Or still smart?
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Still here and still smart.
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(11-22-2020, 09:43 PM)toolmiser Wrote: There are still some very smart people here.
There sure are.
I feel like a complete noob when I stick my head in this part of the forum. Finishing, too.
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(11-22-2020, 09:43 PM)toolmiser Wrote: There are still some very smart people here.
If your kind comment was directed at me well, thanks, but I'm just passing on the technique; I sure didn't invent it. Before cope and stick joinery was ushered in during the machine age I think all joints with a profiled edge were cut this way. Maybe the hand tool guys can chime in if they used coping planes to cut cope and stick joinery by hand. I don't know, but I'm sure I wouldn't want to cut many cope joints in the ends of hardwood rails.
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I had looked at this thread and didn't have anything to add. Smart doesn't necessarily mean inventing the wheel, but knowing how to use it. I hope I remember this for in the future I'm sure someone will accuse me of being a genius if I would pull this off.
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(11-23-2020, 09:25 PM)toolmiser Wrote: Smart doesn't necessarily mean inventing the wheel, but knowing how to use it.
This.^^
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At a certain age smart means not repeating the same mistake because you couldn't remember what happened last time you tried it.