Face Frame Assembly Hack

Jimmy, you learned me something here about face frames today. Yeah, a little bit of different, a little bit of a different approach than I do. So tell the folks at home what, how we got to this point and then we'll talk about. I like when I make my face frames, if I have time, I like to glue all my joints together, clamp them up really tight, let them dry. And then with the clamps in place an hour or two later, once all the glue is set, then I put my screws in that prevents any shifting.

And because if you shift and you miss that hole, you can't get it back in that same hole again, it's gonna keep finding the, the wrong. It's gonna keep racking it off. So the, so before this face rim got glued together, Jimmy drilled pocket holes in the backs of the rails like we normally would. Now, for me, what I would do at that stage is probably using this hold down in the middle of my bench. I bring the rail and the style together with glue in the joint and clamp it down and drive the two screws.

And we were talking about this as, as well as those hold down clamps work. I do still get some creep ever. And I don't mean Jimmy being in the shop, I mean, creep between the rail and the tension. You create the tension that, that screw comes in at an angle and it wants to do this, it wants to shift your joint, let it kick, let the glue kick for a little bit, then put it in. So this, I like this approach a lot.

And we were talking about like, is there a little time loss here which would be like the benefit to glue it, screw it move on? Is that when you get to the fourth corner, that face frame is ready to go on the cabinet in that moment with this one, you're losing 10 minutes, I suppose, you know, glue it so fast and there's always some overlap tasks. We could let this dry while we're busy making something else and come back to it. So I think Net Net, this is a huge gain and it buys you that these corners have to remain flush. Um And a good question might be from the folks at home.

Well, if they're already glued, why are we adding screws? Well, in case the cabinet takes a hard jolt that it starts to loosen up, you could break that glue joint. It's just more insurance. It's gonna stay together. It's a little bit of a belt and suspenders kind of thing because remember too, that glue on grain is not all that strong.

So suck it up like a sponge. So adding, you still want to add the screws. Don't, don't think that we're telling you to only clamp these and glue them and then it's important to screw them together while, while the clamps are still securely clamped. Cool great tip. And, uh, I think I'm gonna steal this, whether you like it or not.

I'm gonna steal this. We can steal it. All right. Thank you. It's a free one.