09-27-2012, 12:32 PM
(09-27-2012, 09:30 AM)TomG Wrote: Nice looking cabinet Steve, you definite got the color just right.Tom, thanks, I do know that the panel should float but I can't remember if I learned that before or after I built the cabinet.
That door opened up because there isn't enough room in the frame for the panel to expand. You'll need to take it apart and rip some off the width of the panel then put it back together. Just re-gluing the frame will only last one season. Also, you probably already know this, but the panel should float in the frame. No glue allowed.
Tom
I made it around 2000-2001. We noticed expansion and contraction from summer to winter in Ontario, but since we've been here in NS since Dec. 2009 we can see MUCH more movement in the humid summer months.
I'm afraid to "take it apart" because the other three seams are holding tight and I might ruin it.
I shoulda stepped (overlapped) the doors where they meet the wide winter crack would be less obvious.
Anyway, we'll watch it as things dry out in the upcoming heating season.
Sorry lads, I didn't intend to turn this into a woodworking forum.
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