A few more notes about the frame glue-up. All the pieces were Domino'd together. Because of the limited space at the junctions of the 26.5 degree mitres, there wasn't enough room for two Domino's - one from either side. My solution was to insert into one side one of my 'assembly' Domino's, fit the joint together and then recut the Domino from the other side. That cuts a profile out of the other Domino such that when a whole Domino is put in place on the other side, it will slot into the nick in the other. I took each of the 'assembly' Dominos and used them as templates for the proper Domino's and cut the profile - adding a bit extra to give some wiggle room - on the wee bandsaw. The important thing is making sure that you insert the Domino the right way up when you glue up. This is VERY important. DAMHIKT
Regarding the doors, nothing much to report here other than the fact that I cocked up a little with the measurements
Just means that the gap between door and frame will be a little larger than I usually make them.
I Domino'd the door rails and stiles and glued up the frame checking for wind. When it was dry I simply rebated the back so that the panels would drop in
and glued the whole lot up with a load of clamps to make sure that those wayward and still slightly twisty stiles were anchored down as much as possible.
I also noticed that there were some strange shakes developing in the rear face of the panels and so yet again , using my trusty epoxy mix, let it seep into the shakes to give some longterm stability.
Returning to the question of fixing the face frame to the carcass I looked at the two side panels and came to the conclusion that the righthand side was straight enough (it was packed out away from a very uneven wall and so there were some inevitable diversions from a perfectly straight edge by 0.5 - 1 mm as the carcass was screwed into place) that I could Domino the frame on that side referencing off the inside face of the carcass and the inside face of the face frame.
One point worth making was that I made damn sure that the Domino depth-of-cut would not pierce through the front of the faceframe. Made all the easier by a rule I make myself follow which is to store the Domino machine always with the depth-of=cut set to its minimum.
As far as the lefthand side was concerned, the width of the faceframe was too wide to use the inside face of the carcass as a reference face...that would have been too simple and also not helped y the fact that the lefthand carcass face was not 100 % parallel with the right face ..again down to the challenges placed by having another uneven surface to which the lefthand carcass side would be fixed. The solution was to fit Domino's in the right hand frame side, fit in place temporarily, run a pencil up the inside of the left side of the face frame and then use that as the reference line for the dominos, adjusting the machine for each one and doing an awful lot of trial cuts!
I also quickly realised that I actually didn't need to make a full depth cut for the trials.
It then came down to a question of offering up the face frame gradually adding dominos on the LH side. It was at this point that I changed how I was going to finally fix the frame. Originally the plan was to glue it in place but as I like to have get-outs a preferable way would be to avoid doing that and so I decided that if I glued just the Domino into the faceframe then I could use a few small screws through the inside face of the carcass and into the domino that was inserted in as the faceframe was offered up.
But even that plan was set aside as I subsequently found that the friction and tight fit of the Dominos meant that once fitted the face frame stayed in place.
And that's about it.
Job's a good'un, I reckon. Thanks for looking.
And now it's finished, surely someone can see the error ?
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.