Looking for suppliers of solid wood kitchen doors and drawer fronts

I'm sure these people will knock some together for you:

Yes, however they don't really seem to be into supplying just some drawer fronts, they want to sell complete bespoke kitchens. I also suspect that their prices might be a bit beyond me! :-)

Stratospheric apparently. But then maybe that's what it costs. Insofar as it's a measure of anything, no flash cars in the car park.

Might be worth contacting them all the same. At the very least they might know someone.

It's very straightforward to make them yourself. 80x20 Ash for the "frame" and 6mm veneered MDF for the panel. Simple joints will work because the panel isn't going to move. If you want a profile on the inner edges then either route it or use beading.

Yes, I guess I may have to go this way. Any suggestions for supplier(s) of 80x20 Ash and matching veneered MDF?

Solid wood of any width greater than about 6" warps and twists. Forget it.

Either use [veneered] plywood/blockboad/chipboard/MDF or split the units into smaller panels and learn to do cabinet making.

It's an "all drawers" set up so the biggest pieces will be less than

The simplest D_I_Y approach would be a thin[nish] sheet of plywood or similar with the surrounding strips made of solid wood. I think my joinery/carpentry skills are just about up to something like that.

However there is still the issue of where to buy, for example, ash battens and matching veneered plywood.

So, any suggestions for suppliers please, it's not something I've got in my suppliers list.

We bought ready made doors in ash for our kitchen I fitted over 20 years ago, still beautiful. Simple panels with an 85mm surround and drawer fronts are flat 115mm x 20mm solid. If I could find a supplier to do the same then that would be perfect.

Errr, speak to your local wood yard, or search <PAR Ash> and <ash veneer MDF>

If you can find someone with a decent bandsaw, planer and thicknesser you could buy sawn boards and machine them to whatever size you need.

If you mitre the corners and then route a slot for the ply to drop into, it sounds fairly straightforward. Main thing will be getting the corners tight (dowels/biscuits/dominos?).

This is very location dependent - unless you're buying a truckload a supplier is going to hit you with a big shipping charge if you aren't local.

Cocking Sawmill (West Sussex)

(sawmills are less likely to carry 'stock' and more likely to cut things to order. So don't be put off if their website doesn't list exactly what you want - you need to ask)

Veneered ply as an engineered wood is likely to come from a different source to the straight timber, because it's made in a factory not a sawmill. Unless the sawmill also does their own veneering.

You could probably find a local joinery shop to do the above job if you don't want to. They'll benefit from being able to jig all the cutting so everything is identical and really accurate saws so it's all square. Possibly some of the timber yards also provide that service.

Theo

Mitre joints for this are a bad idea - they will open as the wood moves. It needs to be T&G or (maybe) pocket screws

For stiffening mitre joints in picture frames etc. I have cut slots across the corners and glued in thin ply etc.

Snip.

Isn't that what biscuits or dominos do? They're just a ready made piece of ply with a convenient tool to make the slot.

(%^&%$&! pricey, in the case of the Domino)

Theo

Yes, I do that for narrow frames (using a contrasting hardwood) but wouldn't do it for a door. Today I've been machining some wide MDF architrave to go around a large attic trap door and used biscuits to align the corners because the ceiling isn't flat