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I'm building a new custom upper kitchen cabinet. It will be 5' long, with a 1.5' return that forms a simple "L" shape. The tricky bit is that the cabinet interior will be a single open space with four interior fixed shelves.
I've built a number of straight open cabinets before, but this is the first where I'll have a return and I'm unsure how best to join the return to the rest of the cabinet so that it will be a strong single unit.
Years ago I built some small corner bookcases with the legs mitered into each other, but I was never very happy with the cut and fit. My skills and tools were poor back then...
I'm mainly torn between building the return and main cabinet with a mitered-off end, and joining them diagonally, or building a simple 5' run, and biscuit-joining the return onto the face of the main cabinet.
Any thoughts or recommendations?
I'm not a complete cabinet novice (I've build a dozen or so simple cabinets - about 25% of those were for the kitchen), but I've had zero formal training in cabinets. I foolishly skipped my last chance to take "Cabinetry" in back in high school.
I've built a number of straight open cabinets before, but this is the first where I'll have a return and I'm unsure how best to join the return to the rest of the cabinet so that it will be a strong single unit.
Years ago I built some small corner bookcases with the legs mitered into each other, but I was never very happy with the cut and fit. My skills and tools were poor back then...
I'm mainly torn between building the return and main cabinet with a mitered-off end, and joining them diagonally, or building a simple 5' run, and biscuit-joining the return onto the face of the main cabinet.
Any thoughts or recommendations?
I'm not a complete cabinet novice (I've build a dozen or so simple cabinets - about 25% of those were for the kitchen), but I've had zero formal training in cabinets. I foolishly skipped my last chance to take "Cabinetry" in back in high school.