I need to build some black melamine cabinets and don’t want any connectors to show. I’ve read about screw covers but am wondering if pocket screws or Festool dominos will hold 3/4″ cases together sufficiently?
Thanks,
Ron
I need to build some black melamine cabinets and don’t want any connectors to show. I’ve read about screw covers but am wondering if pocket screws or Festool dominos will hold 3/4″ cases together sufficiently?
Thanks,
Ron
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Biscuits will do it OK.
No biscuit joiner? You now have a terrific excuse to blow about a grand on a Festool Domino and all the trimmings.
Boy you have to build a lot of black melamine cabinets to convince DW on the purchase of a Festool Domino.
Thanks for the info. Already have both Kreg pocket holer and Domino so just wondering which might do the job well...sounds like the tenons so far
We have put together a lot of cabs in which the finished ends were fixed with the Titus Minifix stud and cam.With that, nothing is visible on the outside face, and the cam mortise can be placed on the top of the top and the bottom of the deck, so as not to be visible. Prep for these, though, requires either CNC boring equipment or well-crafted fixtures for manual drilling.There are some other good choices in RTA fastening, some requiring more precision prep machining than others. A good place to look at selections and specs is at the Woodworkers Hardware website.
When in doubt, make a test! You say you have both the Domino and the kreg jig. Make a few joints (butted?) with both techniques and put some load on them until break. I would guess the Domino joint is stronger than the melsmine itself, if it is particle board core melamine.
Ya gonna go European or with face frames? There is a glue for melamine?
probably euro...as to glue, is RooClear the melamine product of choice?
Roo Clear may help prevent rattles, and may reduce water infiltration in kitchen cabinets, but it can't form a structural bond like PVA on plywood. It bonds okay to the melamine, but any stress just rips the melamine away from the underlying particle board.
You're using melamine-covered particle board, right? Pocket screws don't work well in particle board. Wrack the cabinet, and the screws heads just pull right through the particle board. A better scheme is Confirmat screws. They're designed for particle board. You can buy matching caps for the screws. The standard ones make a little hump over the screw, and that's not too bad. Or Fastcap has a system to make completely flush caps in melamine, and it is darn near invisible.