Using Blind Dado Construction & Dado For Face Frames

[Gary Campbell]

Duh... forgot pic

[steve_williams]

Thanks for the response Gary
Its hard to see but are your ff rabbeted or dadoed ?
Cant use pocket screws for assembling the ff if they are rabbeted?

[Gary Campbell]

Steve...
They are dadoed 1/4 from the edge. If you get a system that works for you, you can also add the pocket screw slots

[englert]

I believe that Gary's responses answered this.

A tenon is added to the front edge of the carcass on all edges including fixed shelves and partitions or as stated in the previous post you can select the carcass components individually and apply the blind dado.

Whether it is a dado or rabbet depends upon the location of the face frame with its mating case component and whether you specify left/right or up/down for the position of the tenon.

Dennis

[steve_williams]

Thats great news
Thanks for all your help
I am looking at getting a shopbot alpha soon.
I am pretty decent with ecabs ( although I wish the molding could be applied in the same way as the countertop!), I hope the link isnt too bad of a learning curve

Steve

[ken_rychlik]

Steven

On the molding, try taking your upper cabinets in the cabinet editor one at a time and put crown molding on the top. Then save it that way.

Then when you load a top cabinet into a room, the molding comes with it. It is not a perfect solution, but it is fast and easy. I have not used much light rail, but I'm sure that would work the same way.

[steve_williams]

Kenneth

I hear you but the molding library is measly. I usually create a tool and shape a display cube to fit the contour of the built in