This may be a little difficult to explain, bear with me. I'm in the design
stage of a corner kitchen wall cabinet which will have a door opening at 45
degrees to the corner in which it will be mounted. It will be a face frame
design. While drawing this thing up, I've come to realize that the biscuit
method used on my other cabinets may not work 'cause the cab. walls to which
the frame will be attached will be at 90 degrees to each other. Pocket
screw joinery will be problematical because one element or the other (wall
or frame) will be cut at a 45 degree angle. If you sketch it out as I did,
you'll see the resulting awkward arrangement for pocket screw setup. The
only thing I've come up with so far is attaching some sort of reinforcing
block to the wall portion of the cabinet to provide enough meat for biscuit
joinery, wherein all the biscuits would go into the frame,and wall ends at
90 deg. angles. It doesn't seem that it would be too difficult to conceal
any such reinforcement behind the face frame itself. Just a lot of extra
work (unless it's absolutely necessary)

If any of you cabinet building types understand my problem, and have a slick
solution, I would greatly appreciate hearing about it.

Good 'ol Bob

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good ol' Bob wrote:
This may be a little difficult to explain, bear with me. =20

It would be easier to understand if you would put in some whire space as =
I did.
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I'm in the design stage of a corner kitchen wall cabinet which will =
have a
door opening at 45 degrees to the corner in which it will be
mounted. It will be a face frame design.=20

OK...=20

While drawing this thing
up, I've come to realize that the biscuit method used on my other
cabinets may not work 'cause the cab. walls to which the frame will
be attached will be at 90 degrees to each other. Pocket screw
joinery will be problematical because one element or the other
(wall or frame) will be cut at a 45 degree angle.=20

You lost me. The walls could be at 45 degrees to each other? Or are =
you talking about the cabinet sides?
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If any of you cabinet building types understand my problem, and
have a slick solution, I would greatly appreciate hearing about it.

What I'd do...

1. Concerning just the cabinet boxes, only difference in the 45 degree =
one is the bottom

2. Face frame on odd ball cabinet is same as on any other cabinet (and =
attached to box in whatever manner you prefer) except...
(a) door edge sides are cut at angle so that face frame door edge =
and door edge are parallel
(b) the face frame edge in (a) is going to be longer than the door =
is thick so trim inside projection as necessary - OR - pack out box =
wall.

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dadiOH
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On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 03:31:28 GMT, "good ol' Bob"
wrote:

If any of you cabinet building types understand my problem, and have a slick
solution, I would greatly appreciate hearing about it.

Bob,

I'm in the design stage of a corner kitchen wall cabinet which will have
a door opening at 45 degrees to the corner in which it will be mounted.
It will be a face frame design.

I recently built a corner base cabinet for our kitchen that has the door at
a 45' angle (relative to the wall).

Because I had to allow for sink clearances, I did not start the angled face
frame right at the cabinet edge. My cabinet was more of an "L" shape with
the inside corner cut off at a 45 degree angle. In fact, I cut the back
corner at a 45 degree angle too so the total depth was about 30". This
allowed the finished cabinet to fit through a doorway.

Anyway, where the face frame stiles met in the corners, I ripped the stiles
with 22-1/2 degree bevels then used pocket screws to join them together. It
worked very well. Because the wood is so thin in the corner area, the
screws do slightly penetrate the backside of the corner. But, it's inside
the cabinet where no one will ever notice (unless they stick their hand
back there and feel).

On the other hand, when I installed the toe kicks I just cut the ends at
45' angles, and overlapped the boards. It worked well too, but it wasn't
really a structural situation.

Anthony