Cope And Stick Door

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 door.

The first bit routs a profile and panel groove on the inside edge of all the frame parts. First let s define some terms. Add easy elegance to your furniture projects. Wood will always react to moisture and the humidity in the air.

This is helpful for making glass panel cabinet doors or when using plywood with a thickness that s less than 1 4 in. 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. The cope and stick cabinet door design is durable and lasts longer than simple slab cabinet doors. I use mainly my router table and some specialty router bits to do.

Driven by a passion for innovation in design quality and functionality our focus is to be the leading provider of reclaimed building material. Cope and stick is a charlotte north carolina based vintage lumber yard furniture and millwork shop. Nothing dresses up a cabinet like a raised panel door. Some cope and stick bit sets are now made to be adjustable so you can vary the slot width for the door panel opening.

Those items don t come cheap. This is due to the design s ability to compensate for changes in the cabinet door s size. As humidity rises all cabinet doors will swell slightly. Enter the cope and stick joint.

It is the most common style of replacement cabinet doors because they come in a wide range of popular styles and offer longer term value. You can easily create the sticking profile on the inside edge of the door. Traditional or cope stick cabinet doors have been a favorite in new homes for decades and still are today. A decorative edge on the door s rails and stiles frames the panel to set it off and tenon and groove joinery gives it long lasting durability.

In this video i go step by step on how to make a cope and stick framed with a raised panel. When fine woodworking art director michael pekovich was faced with making 31 cabinet doors he soon realized he d need a simple speedy solution.