Face frame attachment

[Damon Nabors]

A customer and I were talking the other day about building RTA cabinets for his company to sell and he was showing me what he had been purchasing and the question came up about face frame attachment. He is building the doors and face frames and doing the finishing, I am cutting the cab parts and edgebanding. We are going to attach the face frames with the KD fasteners as well. I would think a little glue and the fastener to hold the frame in place until glue set up would be sufficient. Plus the kd fasteners can be ordered in different colors, plus they flush mount and I don't think they look at bad as the pocket holes. The only thing we will have to do is manually drill the hole in the face frame for the rafix bolt. I thing a fixture set up on a drill press with a dedicated fence would work OK.

Has anyone tried this yet, and if so what do you think.

Damon

[FredHirsch]

Damon,
I've done this, but did the face frame out of ply in the nest and it worked like a champ. I'd think a jig with a fence and stops at the 2" KD hardware inset would be pretty quick. Would love to see what you come up with. I guess you'd have to adjust fence for scribe.?.
Fred

[Damon Nabors]

I was thinking about setting up a dedicated drill press with a fence and stop for the fasteners. I would think you could make a series of spacers that coordinate with the different scribe/offsets that way you could just leave your fence in a fixed location and just apply which ever shim you need for the inset.

[Justin Melhiser]

Damon
You might find more answers posting this question on the eCabinets forum. The postings on the THM forum or for machine questions and answers, where you will find more woodworkers and more solutions on the eCabinets forum.

[Damon Nabors]

Sorry Justin, I had the lights off when I posted the question and couldn't see what I was doing!

I posted over here because I thought it would be better asked of people with a THM Router. We are doing it now on these cabinets, I was just curious if anyone else had tried it and thier success with it.

Thanks Justin for your help.