Danny
Proulx's Cabinet Doors and Drawers
A Comprehensive
"How-To"
Guide
by Danny Proulx
Softcover
215 x 280mm
128pp
Published by Popular Woodworking Books, Ohio USA
R.R.P.$29.90
ISBN 1-55870-739-5
Extract from back cover of book:
With the authoritative advice and easy-to-follow instructions of expert cabinetmaker Danny Proulx, you will be able to make any style of cabinet door and drawer to fit your specific needs and wants.
Danny Proulx's Cabinet Doors and Drawers provides the basics of joinery and joint terminology, explanations of door and drawer hardware, tons of helpful shop tips, plus eight chapters devoted to every type of door and drawer imaginable, including:
-
Slab doors
- Frame and flat panel doors
- Raised panel doors
- Cope
and stick doors
- Glass door frames
- Pocket, flipper and tambour doors
- Cabinet drawers - Inlay door and drawer faces
Danny Proulx, late, beloved author of more than a dozen woodworking books, was known for his ability to break things down into easy-to-follow instructions. He was a great teacher, who leaves a valuable legacy of some of the most helpful and accessible woodworking books available.
Photos: Colour
Units of Measurement: Imperial
Contents
Joinery
Terminology and Techniques
- Butt Joints
- Miter Joints
- Groove,
Dado and Rabbet Joints
- Tongue and Groove Joints
- Mortise and Tenon Joints
-
Finger (Box) Joints
- Hand-Cut Dovetail Joints
- Machine Made Dovetail Joints
-
Lap Joints
- Cope-and-Stick Joints
- Dowels and Biscuits
- Pocket-Hole
Joints
- Edge Joining for Panel Glue-Ups
- Building a Panel Cross Cutting
Jig
Door
and Drawer Hardware
- Face-Frame vs Frameless Cabinets
- European Hinges
-
Parts of the Hidden Hinge
- Hinge Opening
- The Full-Overlay Hinge
-
The Half-Overlay Hinge
- The Inset Hinge
- Installing the Hidden Hinge
-
Frameless Cabinet Door Sizes
- Face-Frame Cabinet Door Sizes
- Wide-Opening
and Bifold Hinges
- Pocket Door Hinges
- Drawer-Box Construction
- Drawer
Hardware
- Drawer Box Size Calculation
Building
Slab Doors
- Melamine PB Doors
- Veneer Slab Doors
- Wood-Edged Doors
-
Solid Wood Slab Doors
- More Wood Slab Door Options
- Applied Moulding Slab
Doors
- Making a Laminate Cutting Jig
- Making P-Lam Doors
- Medium Density
Fiberboard (MDF) Doors
- Building a Pattern-Routing Jig
Frame
and Flat Panel Doors
- Table-Saw Tenon-and-Groove Doors
- Router Table
Tenon-and-Groove Doors
- Mitered Frame-and-Panel Door
- Mortise-and-Tenon
Door Frames
- Cathedral Doors
- Building Arched Frame-and-Panel Doors
-
Building Cathedral Frame-and-Panel Doors
- Building a Curve Routing Jig
Raised
Panel Doors
- Creating Panel Glue-Ups
- Tapered Raised Panels
- Table-Saw
Coved Raised Panels: Version 1
- Table-Saw Coved Raised Panels: Version 2
-
Plain-Profile Panel-Raising Cutters
- Figured-Profile Panel Raising Cutters
-
Raised-Panel Bits with Back Cutter
- Raised Panel vs Door Frame Position
Cope-and-Stick
Doors
- Calculating Cope-and-Stick Door Sizes
- Square Cope-and-Stick
Doors
- Calculating the Radius for Arched and Cathedral Doors
- Arch Cope-and-Stick
Door
- Cathedral Cope-and-Stick Door
Glass
Door Frames
- Table-Saw Frames
- Divied Four-Light Doors
- Mortise-and-Tenon
Frame Glass Doors
- Cope-and-Stick Frame Doors
- Cutting Small Cope-and-Stick
Muntins Safely
Pocket,
Flipper and Tambour Doors
- Hardware for Pocket and Flipper Doors
-
Tambour Doors
- Tambour Door Tracks
Cabinet
Doors
- Melamine Particleboard Drawers
- Calculating Face-Frame Drawer
Sizes
- Calculating Frameless Drawer Sizes
- Baltic Birch Plywood Drawers
-
Finger-Jointed Solid-Wood Drawer Boxes
- Building a Finger-Joint Jig
- Conventional
Wood Drawers
- Locking Rabbet Drawer Joinery
- Dado-and-Rabbet Drawer Joinery
-
Pocket Hole Joinery
- Biscuit Joinery Options
- Hand-Cut Dovetails for Drawer-Box
Joinery
Inlaid
Doors and Drawer Faces
- Making Inlay Doors
- Inlay Material Width
Tips
for Building Doors and Drawers
- Shop-Made Router-Table Fence
- Installing
Drawer Faces
- Pullouts Behind Cabinet Doors
- Drawer-Box Alignment
-
Door and Drawer Handle Placement
- Inside Width Plus 1"
- Face-Frame
Drawer-Box Size
- Screw Joinery
Index