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12-19-2007 06:18 PM |
Topic tags/keywords: question rail stile door construction The traditional rail/stile layout for doors is with the verticals (stiles) to be the full height, and the horizontals (rails) to go between, as in the sketch on the left. For a job I’m working on, it would really help if the rails were vertical, and the stiles were horizontal, like the sketch on the right. -- http://www.peteroxley.com/woodworking -- http://north40studios.etsy.com -- |
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#1 posted 12-19-2007 06:35 PM |
Peter, I have seen this done many times. It is usually done to highlight some aspect of a design. James Krenov has definitely done this in his designs so, you’d be in good company! At first glance, there should be no structural reason to avoid it. When you have two doors next to each other, with vertical stiles the deign tends to accentuate the height and make the design look taller and slimmer. When the stiles are horizontal it tends to make the design look shorter and more stable. Of course, these features could also be used to build on other elements in the design of the piece. So, I’d say to go for it! -- Mark, Webster New York, Visit my website at http://thecraftsmanspath.com |
#2 posted 12-19-2007 07:12 PM |
As mark said, krenov has done it albeit the whole style of the furniture and cabinets he made was different as was the wood specie ( a lot of spalted wood ) I see no structural/engineering reason why one is better over the other. Regards -- "Good artists borrow, great artists steal”…..Picasso |
#3 posted 12-19-2007 07:17 PM |
I’ve done this to make the doors look more ‘woodsy’. I haven’t run across any problem with stability of the doors. |
#4 posted 12-19-2007 07:28 PM |
Peter, -- Thos. Angle, Jordan Valley, Oregon |
#5 posted 12-19-2007 08:12 PM |
I don’t think you’re going to have issues across cabinet doors, but I’ve been looking at making an entrance door recently, and played with that rail configuration, and then thought that the most critical “it has to be straight and flat” edges are the sides of the door, so it makes some sense, even if it’s no longer a function of the materials or the manufacturing mechanism, that those edges be the continuous pieces. -- Dan Lyke, Petaluma California, http://www.flutterby.net/User:DanLyke |
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