Building A Cabinet Carcass

Easy tutorial to build your own kitchen cabinet carcass with pocket holes.

Building a cabinet carcass.

That means you can use large sturdy screws. If you cap the end cabinet with 1 4 in. Cap end cabinets to hide fasteners. This style is referred to as frameless or european style cabinet.

The cabinet carcass is the plywood that makes up the box. 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. Instead of creating such a monster build individual cabinet carcasses. The carcass construction can be separated into three types.

Cabinet building has several variations which may be used in construction. Face frames cover plywood edges. If you are building frameless cabinets this will be the entire build. Building the cabinet carcass.

Leg and rail construction is found on chairs tables benches stools and on some furniture such as chests. Begin with the right cabinet dimensions. Plywood you don t have to hide the fasteners you used to build your boxes. The sample base and wall cabinets shown below have these features to make building them as simple as possible.

Add the face frame after they re all in place. One of the easiest cabinet carcasses to build is an upper cabinet and to make it even easier there s no face frame. Tips for perfect cabinet boxes. Leg and rail frame and panel and box or case.