Beaded face frame cabinets. Use glue and small brad nails to attach the beads to the face frame. Since 1979 customers have trusted us to provide professional design service superior handcrafted cabinetry and on time deliveries. We made fixtures for the chopper so the width of the face frame stock doesnt matter and one has a stop to aid the corner clipping process. Foxcraft cabinets is a family owned custom cabinet shop located in lancaster county pa.
Please order your face frames with the bead factored into the overall width dimensions of your face frame parts. Beaded faceframes are also a great way to show off inset doors. I prime my face frame before i attach it to the cabinet and then. Category howto style.
We run the bead on the face frame stock chop the notches and miters with a morso fc chopper and assemble with pocket screws. A beaded faceframe on furniture or cabinets is a sign of quality. It holds the bead in place but barely leaves a hole to patch. Show more show less.
The beaded portion of the molding overlaps the face of the stile rail parts and provides a raised beaded look on the face frame. Additional beaded moldings are also available for application to the inside edge of the face frame. It is a fine detail that takes time and craftsmanship to properly execute but it is certainly worth the extra effort. The original method of doing this was to apply a bead moulding or sometimes to scratch the bead into the frame in.
You can obviously do this before or after. I use my 23 gauge nail gun for this job. We also make these beaded inset style cabinets. Custom face frames allow the customer to do the following.
Constructing a beaded face frame. Cabinet beaded face frames with a simple system duration. Traditional cabinets often have a bead detail around the drawer and door edges.