I have part of the Kreg Beaded Face Frame Jig (BFF), Minus the actual Jig.
Just a beading bit and a notching bit.
They are a fascinating way of learning how to attempt to make "professional" looking BFF items.

Back in April 2022 I had this crazy idea of making a eight drawer cupboard having a beaded face Frame front mainly to just amuse myself and build some skills.
I think initially some of it, like 25% went into the rubbish bin.
The timber I "found" at a glass business in my local area driving by one day, spoke with them and they agreed I could have as much as I wanted.

so I arrived later with my trusty pull saw and cut them up to fit in my Ute so I could get them home without attracting the "you cannot do that  police"

deconstructed them, de nailed them sorted them all, and  dumped the unusable sections.

neatly stacked them all up and prepared to dress them all

so the fun began jointing thicknessing and producing something almost usable.

I then scratched about working out a concept of what it would look like and its dimensions.
I settled on 1200mm long and 600 mm deep and about 900mm high
I set up the kreg router bits and made the two ends/sides first.

Did a dry assembly and it looked OK so I beaded the edges.

That took the best part of one day.
Now remembering this was back in April 2022.
I then commenced the front of the cupboard.

Working away I got to a stage of having it almost ready to assemble

I then stupidly decided to make rebated joints on the front and sides as a means of assembly.
This proved to be a very silly move as I was Kreg pocket holing everything together.

I was also experiencing some cosmetic errors with the notching process and timber mismatching.
As you can imagine to get to this stage was quite labour intensive and the results were not really pleasing.
However I continued blindly on.

Only to have the screws split out the joints.

This along with the other errors and the time it was taking I decided to suspend the project and quit.
The frames were stacked out the back and I walked away from the task.
Advance now to  December and I was doing a clean up in case family visited.
The frames were identified for hoisting in the rubbish.
Looking at my folly I wondered if I could resurrect them.
Having not a lot of "other things" I needed to do I decided to repair the split out.

I did this by gluing a strip into the original rebate and milling it back down to size.

this produced a reasonable result and inspired me to continue.

So I pressed on and got to a stage of reassembly using strengthening blocks the assemble everything with plus incorporating drawer slide fixing points.

The two pieces of timber representing the slide rails Point of attachment, right of the clamp  and the Left side one the side of the cupboard.
working away I got to this stage.

the as it all looked like it would work this time I filled the gaps knot holes and nail holes and sanded everything.

Did I do the right thing continuing?
I think so even if it was a frustrating way to learn though, but I will continue,... stay tuned