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I had many options open to me for making the tiny cabinet doors just a hair thinner. Being the same width as their respective openings, they didn't have the necessary gaps to allow the hinges room, nor to allow for swinging them open. I did relieve the back inside vertical edges (3/16" roundover bit, matching the shelves, and outer edges/corners) so they'd clear, and so I wouldn't need as much of a gap of clearance.
Ultimately, I decided to mark the line up to what I wanted to shave away using the General marking ruler (left foreground), which has tiny 0.5mm holes in it that allow the mechanical pencil in them to make marks, or by dragging the ruler along the edge, to create lines at exact offsets. I did this, then clamped the board to that line in parallel bars I'd made in my planer out of 2x2s. Then I simply random-orbit sanded the door edges flush with the bars. It worked out quite well, though was messy, as sanding always is. I look forward to the Delta dust collector currently in shipment.
IMG_5434
I had many options open to me for making the tiny cabinet doors just a hair thinner. Being the same width as their respective openings, they didn't have the necessary gaps to allow the hinges room, nor to allow for swinging them open. I did relieve the back inside vertical edges (3/16" roundover bit, matching the shelves, and outer edges/corners) so they'd clear, and so I wouldn't need as much of a gap of clearance.
Ultimately, I decided to mark the line up to what I wanted to shave away using the General marking ruler (left foreground), which has tiny 0.5mm holes in it that allow the mechanical pencil in them to make marks, or by dragging the ruler along the edge, to create lines at exact offsets. I did this, then clamped the board to that line in parallel bars I'd made in my planer out of 2x2s. Then I simply random-orbit sanded the door edges flush with the bars. It worked out quite well, though was messy, as sanding always is. I look forward to the Delta dust collector currently in shipment.