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Watched a guy caulk an entire face frame before assembly and it hit me why my joints keep opening up
I was at my buddy Dale's shop over in Allentown helping him knock out a run of oak uppers, and he does this thing where he glues and clamps the face frame to the box with everything already glued up solid. I've always glued my face frames to the carcass first and then done pocket screws after, which is why I get these hairline gaps on the stiles a few months down the road when the seasons turn. Dale explained that the frame wants to move a little independent of the plywood box, so if you lock it all at once you're fighting the wood instead of working with it. I tried his way on a set of maple lowers that went into a kitchen in Bethlehem, and six months later the homeowner sent me a picture and there wasn't one gap. Took me eleven years of doing it the hard way to figure that out from a guy who's only been at it since 2019. What kills me is I've read every cabinet book there is and none of them spell that out plain. Curious if anyone else here glues face frames on before or after the box goes together, and whether it bit you later.
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