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Intermediate Method: Assemble and Glue the Door

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Apply wood glue to the mortise and tenon joints of the stiles and rails. Insert the floating panel into the grooves; **do not glue the panel** if it's solid wood, as it needs to expand and contract with humidity changes. If using plywood, it can be glued to prevent rattling. Assemble the entire door, ensuring everything is aligned, and clamp it firmly but without overtightening to prevent squeezing out too much glue. Let the glue dry overnight for maximum strength.

Goal: Apply wood glue to the tenon and mortise joints of the frame pieces, inserting the floating panel into the mortise grooves without gluing it. Clamp the assembled door overnight to ensure strong, dry joints.

Tools and materials

  • Wood Clamps
  • Wood Glue

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going to glue up when it comes to gluing up if your floating panel is made out of solid wood it will expand and contracts as the seasons change you don't want to glue it down let it do its thing in this situation we're using plywood which is a relatively stable wood we are going to glue that inside this little Channel just to keep any kind of rattling and make it more solidified together as one giant [Music] [Applause] door when you're gluing these panels be sure not to overtighten that's a thing and the reason why is we worked hard putting all the wood glue in there by you overtightening it's going to squeeze it all out you don't have as much glue holding it together doesn't make for a very strong door it could dry in about 2 hours but to be safe let it dry overnight they're going to be so much stronger I'll see you guys in the morning hey welcome back to the next day cabinet door perfectly dry let's throw some uh I don't know holes to the hinges and there we go we got a perfectly beautiful mortise and Tenon classic cabin of door $21.40 cost to make one door like this great option in fact fun fact my first house I redid All the cabinet our Oak in

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