05-02-2018, 10:00 AM
I will be replacing my kitchen cabinets with shop built ones shortly.
I've made many cabinets, but always stained and clear coated hardwood.
This time I am making Shaker style cabinets painted white.
I was in Lowes the other day and they have several cabinet styles on display (not the ones that are in cartons for carry out, the ones you order to spec.).
They seem like pretty good cabinets with Blum soft-close hardware and 3/4" through dovetail drawers aand all plywood construction. Not top of the line, but pretty good specs.
But their painted cabinets all seemed to have a micro-fracture of the paint surface at the junction of the rail and stile joint. I examined the joints and it is a standard 1/2" stub tenon. The fracture shows up as a dark thing line where the paint fractured.
I would be very upset if my cabinets show the same flaw. What can I do to ensure against this? Obviously there is some flexing of the door joints to make the finish crack like that. Perhaps adding two dowels to the stub tenon. That would be pretty easy to do (but time consuming).
Any thoughts?
I've made many cabinets, but always stained and clear coated hardwood.
This time I am making Shaker style cabinets painted white.
I was in Lowes the other day and they have several cabinet styles on display (not the ones that are in cartons for carry out, the ones you order to spec.).
They seem like pretty good cabinets with Blum soft-close hardware and 3/4" through dovetail drawers aand all plywood construction. Not top of the line, but pretty good specs.
But their painted cabinets all seemed to have a micro-fracture of the paint surface at the junction of the rail and stile joint. I examined the joints and it is a standard 1/2" stub tenon. The fracture shows up as a dark thing line where the paint fractured.
I would be very upset if my cabinets show the same flaw. What can I do to ensure against this? Obviously there is some flexing of the door joints to make the finish crack like that. Perhaps adding two dowels to the stub tenon. That would be pretty easy to do (but time consuming).
Any thoughts?
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