Post-skinning

[Gene Davis]

Can your shop skin a part after it is cut, and before it is edgebanded?

I am a newbie, and have yet to have a job processed, but this seems to me to be a good way to address a job that has a small number of parts in the total batch that would require this.

For a job where the carcase parts are all to be made of, for example, melamine in a maple finish, and where all the cab insides are OK in that finish, wouldn't a job with just two finished ends be done best by skinning after cutting?

If so, is this handled best in the cab editor, by renaming the parts something like \"Skin walnut on outside face?\"

[Michael S Murray]

Hi Gene,
WE handle this two ways, one is to do it just like you said, another approach is to just use a end panel of the appropriate species, on a frameless job we will pull this out to flush with the door/drawer fornt, looks nice and I beleive it probably cost less in the long run as it is more in system and the cabinet is still just like the others, less likely to be missed and less likely to cause finishing problems that can some times show up in veneer on melamine. This approach can be done in the software by applying an end panel with appropriate reveals and scribes. This will be picked up in the cut and nest.