Making Raised Panel Cabinet Doors

You cannot get the accuracy you need without a router table.

Making raised panel cabinet doors.

We ll show you the best tips techniques and tools to make doors quickly and easily without expensive panel raising bits. This is the fi. Extra tall so you can trim their ends after gluing. Do not attempt to build a flat or raised panel door without a router table.

It s a good idea to make your doors 1 8 in. If you are woodworker or cabinetmaker this. Cabinet doors can make or break the look of your kitchen or bathroom cabinets and the longevity of the cabinets. As with any woodworking project however your first concern must always be safety.

Check out all of their classes at florida school of woodwork. One classic style of door and door construction is to make a raised panel and join the frame with a tongue and groove joint. One method is to use a tool that is specially designed to do the job such as a panel raising plane or a panel raising router cutter. Stiles these are the vertical components.

All the methods however fall into two different camps. Making a raised panel door safety instructions creating raised panel doors is a fun and rewarding woodworking project. Here s a classic way to put together a strong good looking door without making any unsightly holes. Helpful 0 not helpful 0.

How to make raised panel doors on a router table a discussion of the basics and the finer points of the process. And there s more than one way to make cabinet doors. In a frame and panel construction a large panel is fitted into a groove in the interior edge of a more dimensionally stable frame made of narrow. Cabinet shops that turn out raised panel doors rely on heavy duty shapers and cutters or at the very least a router table setup that includes a range of expensive bits.

Raised panel doors are an example of frame and panel construction a method developed hundreds of years ago to combat the effects of moisture on solid wood used in cabinetry and furniture making. The florida school of woodwork offers classes in several different aspects of cabinet making and door making. There are five major steps to creating a raised panel door. First you cut the parts for the rails stiles and panels to size.

Traditional raised panels appear in almost every furniture style since roman times though the way to make them varies wildly. I ve had a number of viewers ask me how to build cabinets and raised panel doors. To prove that you don t need expensive cutters to make handsome doors we made the beautiful raised panel doors above using only three common router bits. The parts of a cabinet door.

All raised panel doors are comprised of three components.