Chapel Perilous has taken its toll on me and indeed, my cosmic trigger finger is broken. For readers not familiar with Chapel Perilous I will give Robert Anton Wilson's definition of that god forsaken place. In researching occult conspiracies, one eventually faces a crossroad of mythic proportions (called Chapel Perilous in the trade).
Keep wood chisels razor sharp for building cabinet doors. A good set of chisels helps clean up and fine tune mortises and tenons or remove a bit of wood anywhere you need to, such as the ends of panel grooves in door frames. A chisel set and mallet are essential woodworking tools.
A face frame cabinet is a cabinet which has a front panel into which an opening has been cut. An overlay door is a door which, when closed, lays âon topâ of the cabinet opening (no part of the door goes into the opening since the door is larger than the opening). The overlay dimension is simply how much bigger the door is than the opening of the cabinet (as measured on the hinged side of the door). Here is how to measure your door overlay on a face frame cabinet, (the measuring process is basically the same for a frameless cabinet):