Mistake with Stile and Rail bits

plenty of bite marks on this old butt !! lol if you havent profiled the outside edges yet how about wrapping them with 1/2 in. of a contrasting wood ??

Blake – how about considering some kind of fix rather than re-making the whole job? Maybe adding 1” strips to the stiles of your face frame?

If you did it right, it could look like trim or a detail, rather than a fix.

By the way, those are some shiny router bits!

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Blake, Sorry to hear. Got to say though I have been there as well.
mrtrim’s idea sounds like a possible save though.

CtL

-- Chris L. "Don't Dream it, Be it."

I did the very same thing just last week, except I didnt measure before I went to hang my doors. luckly it was on my own project, to keep from making more doors i added styles to separate the doors on each cabinet. But one time I mest up a hole set of bottom base cabinet doors because I forgot to add the 3/4” hang over. ouch
I myself tend to get in a hurry and wind up measuring once and cutting three times, some day maybe i`ll learn

-- Mike, Bruce Mississippi = Jack of many trades master of none

I purchased the exact same bits and love them. Cost was very low and they work very well. I have been making new doors for a cabinet restro I am currently working on. Although I did make sure the finish product would come out to the exact mesurement after I made that same mistake on a practice door. I’m so glad I got impatient and used the bits before I cut up the expensive maple!
Thanks for the post Blake

-- A duck that brags on his own pond, soon swims alone.

There’s still the possibility of making these cabinets with inset doors (placing the doors flush with the face frame). The skill required is higher, but you’re up for the challenge right? Assemble the doors, run it though the table saw so that the doors will fit inside the face frame with a 1/16th inch gap around, mortise a butt hinge to one side, cut a slight back bevel on the handle side and you’re done with one door.

-- Thuan

I like Peter’s idea. You could put maybe a decorative trim around the inside and make them inset as Thuan suggested. If you’re painting the doors or cabinets either add the strips to the inside of the face frame or to the edges of the doors, sand and paint.

-- Tim -- http://tmuli.com

FWIW, I try to run everything through SketchUp before I cut anything. And it has saved me from some of these very mistakes. The downside of course is, I end up doing a lot of virtual woodworking than the real kind :(

-- Praki, Aspiring Woodworker

Blake, I am sorry to hear about that for sure. I hate to say it, but thanks for sharing. I’m going to have to remember this on our new kitchen.

If you’re painting, I like the guys ideas for fixing. No need spending any more than you have to.

-- Kevin, Wichita, Kansas

If you just make the stiles 1/2 inch wider you will not have to cut new panels, nor recut the rails.

-- http://www.woodsongsfurniture.com

Doh! That sucks so bad, and such an easy mistake, argh! I feel your pain Blake, I truly do… But like the other folks have said it’s definitely salvageable, might look cool to add that extra half inch back with a bead piece, i.e a super small round over where the piece you’ll need to glue on meets the stile. You want it subtle enough that you don’t really notice it, but for it to also look intentional. Sure you’ll figure something out, keep us posted.

-- I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso

I think Dennis is right Blake. While I’ve never made cabinets for a home, I have messed with those bits trying to make picture frames. His Idea not only seems the most logical, but the least expensive and the least hassle.
It is easy to make a mistake without a pretrial run. Working with glass has forced me to slow down when measuring and laying out ALL types of projects. Once the glass is tempered I bought it and there is no turning back, so I better be right. I can tell you I feel your pain and that glass is harder to digest than Food – and it don’t taste good either! Sometimes an order of glass for a really complicated shower install can run well over a grand. That doesn’t include my time, and the cost of new materials. It only happened to me once and fortunately I was able to salvage it, But I learned my lesson and slowed it down a lot.

-- --Chuck

Sorry to hear about your miscalculation Blake. Thanks for being man enough to post it. You probably will save someone from a similar error.

-- Maplewood, MN

Been there, done that. They do take a lot of concentration and “pre-calculation” to pull of a perfect door. I am proud to say that I’ve done it though :-))

-- Bill - "Suit yourself and let the rest be pleased." http://www.cajunpen.com/

ARGH ! ! ! I’m pretty sure most of us have had the same experience where you pat yourself on the back and then smack yourself in the forehead. Yep, I can’t count the number of times I said to myself, “Good job” followed immediately by, “You idiot”. I feel for you Blake, but part of me takes great comfort knowing that I’m not the only one.

-- When you give someone a chance it may well be their last.

not fun but you can adapt them. the stiles will still work… just make new rails….or add a contrast strip on the outer edge where it is too narrow. I hate to rig what isnt right… but sometimes the final looks better than the plan

-- making sawdust....

As noted, been there, done that.
Hope you pull out ok. Either with a redo or a fix.

-- Stevethepeeve -- I'm no rocket surgeon

Dennis is right, just redo the styles.
p.s. welcome to the club. <g>

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

Hey, you guys are right – I missed where Blake said he discovered the error during dry-fit, and I assumed the doors were already glued up. Wider door stiles would be an easy, seamless fix and save most of the material.

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