Best Materials For Quality Custom Cabinets

Manufacturing fine custom cabinetry requires careful choice of materials

. Cabinetmakers are often asked about how they select woods for particular projects. Some varieties of wood may appeal to the customer and some may offer a long service life. In our New York Custom Furniture plant, we've built hundreds of custom cabinets - each for a unique customer. The customer is the most important aspect of selecting a material though, although we might have a few recommendations.

Different customers have unique requirements that often drive decisions on which kind of materials to use for particular projects. Still, there are a couple of characteristics of commonly used materials for cabinet construction: Plywood, Veneer and MDF.

Plywood: The construction industry has used plywood as long as the material has been available. Interestingly, plywood is also frequently used in custom cabinetry. Plywood consists of several layers or 'plies' of wood attached with glue or resin. Strong, stable and lightweight, this material is extremely useful - especially the cabinet-grade plywood. This grade is uniquely useful for the bottoms, backs and sides of good quality cabinets. Available in a range of thicknesses, plywood is also available in several types of wood. This makes the material particularly useful as cherry plywood might be used with a cherry veneer for the outer portion while a spruce or alder is used in the cabinet interior.

Veneer: Yes, really! Good quality veneer is a thin portion or slice of good quality wood that is attached to a plywood or MDF panel. Veneer is highly useful and allows the craftsman to control the color, tone and grain much more carefully when applying the material. Once glued to a quality backing material such as plywood or MDF, veneer rarely separates chips or cracks. Several schools of design thought - such as the Art Deco motif - use veneer to create interesting patters by varying the grains and colors in woodwork.

MDF Also known as "Medium Density Fiberboard," this material is made up of wood fibers and resins bound together in the manufacturing process by heat and pressure. This material is also a high quality construction material that works quite well for custom cabinetry as well as other forms of furniture construction. Do not confuse MDF with particleboard however. Particleboard is simply a terrible material to use. MDF is smooth and stable and is a great choice for substrate to which a quality veneer can be attached. Or, for panels where lacquer or paint is to be applied, this material will serve the purchaser well. Owing to its consistent surface, this material is not apt to "telegraph" or show through extremely thin veneers. As this material is an engineered wood product, MDF is also available in varieties that are water resistant and can contain recycled and formaldehyde-free resins. As far as "green" construction material goes MDF is a solid option and a quality material for furniture and cabinetry.

by: Matthew Stone.

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