Making A Raised Panel Door With Router

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Making a raised panel door with router.

Making raised panel doors on the table saw general woodworking or more correctly cope and stick raised panel doors. 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. Making a raised panel door safety instructions creating raised panel doors is a fun and rewarding woodworking project. As with any woodworking project however your first concern must always be safety.

How to make the parts of a cabinet door. If you are woodworker or cabinetmaker this. Horizontal raised panel bits. How to make raised panel doors on a router table a discussion of the basics and the finer points of the process.

Horizontal bits require a more powerful router and slower operating speeds because of their large cut diameter. If you d like to figure the part sizes on your own use these formulas. Rail length door width stile width x 2. There are five major steps to creating a raised panel door.

Horizontal raised panel bits have the added feature of a pilot bearing to guide the router cut along the edge of the panel. This is a necessary feature for arched and cathedral style door making. The tool of choice for most small shop woodworkers who want to make raised panels is the router. Mill the stock to 3 4 thickness for the stiles and rails and to 5 8 thickness for the panel.

Build your own raised panel doors with our 3 piece shaker raised panel door router bit set. First you cut the parts for the rails stiles and panels to size. Crosscut them to length leaving them somewhat oversized. 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.

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. All the methods however fall into two different camps. Traditional raised panels appear in almost every furniture style since roman times though the way to make them varies wildly. This is what most door cutter sets are.