Cope And Stick Door

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Cope and stick door.

Those items don t come cheap. When fine woodworking art director michael pekovich was faced with making 31 cabinet doors he soon realized he d need a simple speedy solution. Wood will always react to moisture and the humidity in the air. The pieces meet at a 90 degree angle at each of the four corners which is a joining technique known as cope and stick.

Cope and stick joinery produces great looking frames for cabinet doors but you need specialized router bits or shaper cutters to do the job the traditional way. Cope and stick is a charlotte north carolina based vintage lumber yard furniture and millwork shop. Enter the cope and stick joint. First let s define some terms.

Learn how to make production style cabinet door joinery with your router table and the freud cope and stick router bit set. This is due to the design s ability to compensate for changes in the cabinet door s size. What are cope and stick cabinet doors. Subscribe to this channel for new.

Cope and stick doors offer exceptional durability and longevity even in humid conditions where wood can swell and. The first bit routs a profile and panel groove on the inside edge of all the frame parts. In this video i go step by step on how to make a cope and stick framed with a raised panel. There s a frame around the raised panel made of four pieces of wood.

There was a small job of a few cabinets rolling through the shop that had a custom cope and stick profile that needed to be matched so i thought i would sho. Mitered versus cope and stick door joinery a customer s red herring about strength of mitered versus square door joinery leads to a discussion of the pros and cons of different door construction joints from the cabinetmaker s point of view june 7 2011. Driven by a passion for innovation in design quality and functionality our focus is to be the leading provider of reclaimed building material. These bit combinations allow you to rout door frames quickly in two steps.