Face Frame, How do YOU do it?

[Steveo O'Banion]

I've made face frames using dowels and now bisquits. I'd like to know how you do it? I'm being seduced by a friend that has a Kreg pocket hole jig.

How do you make face frames? I'm about to start on another kitchen for my wife starting w a 96" x 54" pantry.

Steve

[Steve Clardy]

Pocket screws

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[Nancy Laird]

Biscuits - that way you don't have an ugly hole staring at you from where you put the face frames on.

Nancy

[Steve Clardy]

Biscuits - that way you don't have an ugly hole staring at you from where you put the face frames on.

Nancy

Psst Nancy. Holes are on the back side of frame, unseen

[Rich Torino]

For me it depends on what I building... A curio cabinet from exotics I'd use mortis and tennon.. if I'm making kitchen cabinets or a utility cabinet out of say poplar to be painted I'd use pocket screws.

[Greg Funk]

I use dowels (dowlemax) for the same reason Nancy mentioned. I don't like the big ugly holes pocket screws make. If I was doing it for a living I might not care since you can't really see the holes but I'd know they were there.

Greg

[Greg Heppeard]

Ditto on Kreg...for more than just face frames.

[Dave Falkenstein]

Kreg pocket hole jig for me too.

[Craig D Peltier]

All face frames on cabinets I use pocket holes. Also aprons on small end tables.

[Joe Chritz]

Kreg for building and installing the face frames.

Occasionally if I don't want to do an applied panel or frame end I will just glue and clamp that side.

Joe

[Jason Beam]

Kreg jig.

I also mount the FF to the carcass with pocket holes, too - just to bug Nancy

[Von Bickley]

Kreg Pocket Hole Jig for me.....

I haven't used any biscuits since I got the pocket hole jig.

[Mark Engel]

I use biscuits/glue to attach and align the face frames to the cabinet. If there are any internal rails/stiles, I attach them with pocket screws/glue.

[Chris Padilla]

I just nail 'em.

...and when that eventually fails, I use my D~o~m~i~n~o.....

[M. A. Espinoza]

Pocket screws, and nail/glue to the box.

If its a higher end job then I would skip the nails and biscuit or spline.

This is for cabinet grade build only.