The wall cabinet for drugs and toilet articles, where the various household remedies may be found quickly, is illustrated in [Fig. 194].
It calls for a panelled door, the construction and details of which are given in the drawing.
After squaring up the four pieces for styles and rails, plough a 1⁄4-inch groove 3⁄8 of an inch deep on the inner edge of all the pieces. This groove is to receive the panel which is planed down to fit. The two uprights are to be mortised at each end, as shown by dotted lines and edge view.
The tenons on the ends of the rails are cut with a shoulder. This closes the space made by the plough on the uprights, as shown in the top view.
The panel is squared up 3⁄4 inch larger each way than the open space between rails and styles and a long bevel is planed on each of the four sides, leaving the thickness of the edges just great enough to fit the bottom of the grooves of rails and styles.
Another method of making a panel is to use thin wood which will just fit the grooves, and to fill the joints with a simple moulding mitred at the corners.
The raised panel is not difficult to make, however, and there is little difference in the time consumed by the two methods.
When the five parts are ready for assembling, the mortise joints are glued, the panel slipped into place and left free to shrink in the grooves. The door is placed in hand screws or clamps over night.
As it is to fit a definite space, always make a door slightly larger than its finished dimensions, to allow for planing off and fitting.
While it is drying, proceed with the building of the cabinet. The back inner edges of the sides are to be rabbeted to receive the back, which may be made of 1⁄4 or 3⁄8 inch white wood. Material for the cabinet proper may be any hard wood, or even white wood.