[HELP] Puting two sides together?

[Rusty Shackelford]

Im having trouble coming up with a way of putting my two cab sides together.

The floor of the cab is recessed up slightly (to hide the castors) so I cant just use a square edge at the bottom.

Im thinking along the lines of clamping the two sides together and drilling the pilot holes through the two ,so when they are split they are in exactly the same place. Fitting the floor and top baton to one side should be easy enough, its putting on the othe side and lining it up thats making me scratch my head

[nuka1195]

cut a filler strip.

i personally use dados.

[Rusty Shackelford]

Thanks for replying but im not sure what you mean.

Are you talking about routing a groove to place the parts in?

[matman]

couple ways you could achieve this.

1. dados (yes this is routing a slot for the bottom to slide into)
2. biscuit joiner - cuts slots and filled with biscuits
3. dowels from the inside- similar to biscuits..sometimes very hard to line up, but done so they are not exposed.
4. dowels from the outside - this will show from the outside.  line it up and drill holes from outside into the bottom piece, then stick dowels through and flush trim.

[nuka1195]

filler strip. i meant a spacer.

if this is holding the weight of the cab. i recommend dadoes. you could put a strip on top of the shelf to support the weight.

[javeryh]

Biscuits are the way to go for the joinery.  To line everything up just use a strip of wood as a spacer on the bottom of each side panel so you know exactly where the bottom panel will go.  If you are not using biscuits or dadoes I'd permanently install the spacer on each side so it can hold some of the additional weight.

[ivwshane]

I dadoed all my joints.