Building A Cabinet Carcass

Tips for perfect cabinet boxes.

Building a cabinet carcass.

The carcass construction can be separated into three types. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible. Plywood you don t have to hide the fasteners you used to build your boxes. Overlaps on the sides let you fine tune the cabinet width during installation.

Building the cabinet carcass. Face frames cover plywood edges. That means you can use large sturdy screws. One of the easiest cabinet carcasses to build is an upper cabinet and to make it even easier there s no face frame.

If you are building face frame cabinets you will build you face frame next then attach the two. While the lack of face frame does allow for the possibility of racking face coming out of square during installation it does allow for a more efficient use of cabinet space. The 3 4 plywood case eliminates panel jointing planing and glue ups. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions.

Leg and rail frame and panel and box or case. If you are building frameless cabinets this will be the entire build. Add the face frame after they re all in place. This style is referred to as frameless or european style cabinet.

Leg and rail construction is found on chairs tables benches stools and on some furniture such as chests. Cap end cabinets to hide fasteners. The cabinet carcass is the plywood that makes up the box. If you cap the end cabinet with 1 4 in.