Cope And Stick Door

Enter the cope and stick joint.

Cope and stick door.

The first bit routs a profile and panel groove on the inside edge of all the frame parts. Cope and stick joinery produces great looking frames for cabinet doors but you need specialized router bits or shaper cutters to do the job the traditional way. As humidity rises all cabinet doors will swell slightly. In this video i go step by step on how to make a cope and stick framed with a raised panel.

The pieces meet at a 90 degree angle at each of the four corners which is a joining technique known as cope and stick. Subscribe to this channel for new. What are cope and stick cabinet doors. I use mainly my router table and some specialty router bits to do.

These bit combinations allow you to rout door frames quickly in two steps. When fine woodworking art director michael pekovich was faced with making 31 cabinet doors he soon realized he d need a simple speedy solution. Cope and stick doors offer exceptional durability and longevity even in humid conditions where wood can swell and. Driven by a passion for innovation in design quality and functionality our focus is to be the leading provider of reclaimed building material.

The cope and stick cabinet door design is durable and lasts longer than simple slab cabinet doors. This is due to the design s ability to compensate for changes in the cabinet door s size. There s a frame around the raised panel made of four pieces of wood. Those items don t come cheap.

Cope and stick is a charlotte north carolina based vintage lumber yard furniture and millwork shop. There was a small job of a few cabinets rolling through the shop that had a custom cope and stick profile that needed to be matched so i thought i would sho. Learn how to make production style cabinet door joinery with your router table and the freud cope and stick router bit set. First let s define some terms.