LR 32 for cabinets made with rails and stiles?

[ReneS]

I have been making a lot of freestanding cabinets, building the sides with rails, stiles, and floating panels.

I have been drilling the shelf pin holes in the stiles with a home made jig and a drill. I measure and drill the holes for the euro hinge components.

I think I can use the LR 32 to make all those holes, but I would need to stabilize it, since I am not using sheet goods for the cabinet sides.

I think I can do that fairly simply, but I wanted to check here.

Have any of you done something like that?

 

[tjbnwi]

Is your configuration inset or overlay?

Never heard of the shelf pins going into the stiles. We build hundreds of face frames cabinets a year, all of the holes go in sides/gables of the cabinet box.

What hinge configuration are you using? If you are using the Blum compact hinge making a jig for them is easy, if you’re using a Euro style hinge with face frame plates that jig is easy also. If you a using a case plate the LR=32 can be set up to drill the holes.

Tom

 

[ReneS]

Overlay. The cabinets are frameless, but instead of using plywood or MDF for the box, I make it using stiles, rails, and floating panels. I make two sides and then connect them with rails. The back has a floating panel, and the front is open.

So the front stiles have the hinge plates attached directly to them. The shelf pin holes are in both stiles.

 

[tjbnwi]

Got it, you are making 5 piece panels for the cabinet sides.

The LR-32 will work just fine for what you want to do. Looks like the offset from the back of the rail and stile to the back of the panel is an 1/8”. Get some 1/8” ply to plane the faces out and you’ll be good to go.

Tom

 

[ReneS]

Thanks. That's what I was hoping.