Craftsman Bungalow Restoration #18: Cabinet Door Repair

The last three cabinet doors to install are the originals that I found used as shelves in the laundry room.
Here they are, stripped and in temporary place.

ProblemsUnfortunately two of the doors have significant damage and hack repairs.

Door 1: Missing chunk of breadboard

and chunk of beadboard/ breadboard at opposite corner.



Door 2: Missing corner and bad repair via metal bracket thing

The other end has the same

View from end.

Deconstruction I pried off the ends. These types of door are really a simple construction. They are stock beadboard with wood ends nailed on. It is probably why the joints failed in some of them.



The doors just fell apart at this point. I marked the pieces and set them aside.

The nails are quite long

Broken Joint
The metal doo dads had been holding together a broken tongue and groove joint.

It fell into two pieces as I took the ends off.

Here you can see the two adjoining beadboard pieces with the broken tongue.

I ripped off the tongue and cut a new groove in each edge for a spline to hold the pieces together.

Repaired!

Grain Match

I thought about just making a patch but decided that this door needed a new piece.

I measured the original piece of damaged board.

Here is a bunch of my old growth stock of fir scraps that I use to match the grain.
I cut a new piece of to replace the damaged section and used the t-saw to cut a v-groove.


After ripping away the damaged piece I matched up the grain as much as possible. with my new piece.
I jointed and glued the pieces.


Above is the repaired piece after glue up.


Here is the piece in the context of the entire door.

I Heart Blue Tape
In the course of the repairs I ended up splintering a piece by picking it up incorrectly.
Blue tape to the rescue.

Next time
I mill and attach new breadboard ends.

-- -John "Do I have to keep typing a smiley? Just assume it's a joke." www.flickr.com/photos/gizmodyne