Making A Raised Panel Door With Router

Build your own raised panel doors with our 3 piece shaker raised panel door router bit set.

Making a raised panel door with router. Crosscut them to length leaving them somewhat oversized. How to make raised panel doors on a router table a discussion of the basics and the finer points of the process. Making a raised panel door safety instructions creating raised panel doors is a fun and rewarding woodworking project. If you d like to figure the part sizes on your own use these formulas.

The whole setup will cost 350 to 800 and is money well spent if you re going to make a whole kitchen full of doors. Rail length door width stile width x 2. All the methods however fall into two different camps. Horizontal raised panel bits.

How to make the parts of a cabinet door. Build something extraordinary with our large selection of quality woodworking door and panel router bits at rockler woodworking and hardware. Horizontal raised panel bits have the added feature of a pilot bearing to guide the router cut along the edge of the panel. If you are woodworker or cabinetmaker this.

The tool of choice for most small shop woodworkers who want to make raised panels is the router. Horizontal bits require a more powerful router and slower operating speeds because of their large cut diameter. Making raised panel doors on the table saw general woodworking or more correctly cope and stick raised panel doors. Rip the rails and stiles to width per the cut list.

This is a necessary feature for arched and cathedral style door making. Traditional raised panels appear in almost every furniture style since roman times though the way to make them varies wildly. I did this originally long ago back when i couldn t afford to buy the bit set or the heavier router needed to use them that is normally used to make these doors. As with any woodworking project however your first concern must always be safety.

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. This is what most door cutter sets are. Check out our raised panel project calculator for an easy way to determine the sizes of your door parts. Mill the stock to 3 4 thickness for the stiles and rails and to 5 8 thickness for the panel.