Making A Cabinet Door With A Router

You ll need these specialty bits and a table mounted router to cut the profiles on the rails and stiles of your doors and to shape the center panel.

Making a cabinet door with a router.

For a comprehensive list of cabinet making router bits videos and instruction sheets see the jump menu at upper right. How to make raised panel doors on a router table a discussion of the basics and the finer points of the process. Extra tall so you can trim their ends after gluing. Once you ve cut the door out soften its sides with a router to get rid of any rough edges.

Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin. We offer all of the router bits you ll need to construct raised panel doors drawers and the cabinet carcase. If you are woodworker or cabinetmaker this. To get started we need to figure out the height of the 1 4 groove.

It s good for making a door or two but not for heavy duty jobs. For more tips including how to build a raised panel cabinet door read on. After that coat the door with your desired finish to give it a glossy elegant look. It s a good idea to make your doors 1 8 in.

They just get a groove cut on the inside and in this tutorial we are going to do it with a router table and a set of rail and stile router bits. Finally screw the hinges and handle onto the door and install it to the cabinet. A variety of profiles is available so you can get the look you want. A breakdown of raised panel door frame and drawer bits and sets are shown below.

Series by amana tool md502 raised panel door making carbide tipped router bit set with back cutter with 1 2 inch shank 3 piece 4 6 out of 5 stars 124 121 43 121. Set the groove depth. It s quite versatile but not as durable as the other two sets. Let alone the fact that it doesn t have a back cutter.

The stiles are fairly easy to make. Build something extraordinary with our large selection of quality woodworking door and panel router bits at rockler woodworking and hardware.