Making A Cabinet Door With A Router

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Making a cabinet door with a router.

After that coat the door with your desired finish to give it a glossy elegant look. Set the groove depth. The stiles are fairly easy to make. Once you ve cut the door out soften its sides with a router to get rid of any rough edges.

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. Extra tall so you can trim their ends after gluing. If you are woodworker or cabinetmaker this. How to make raised panel doors on a router table a discussion of the basics and the finer points of the process.

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. We offer all of the router bits you ll need to construct raised panel doors drawers and the cabinet carcase. 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. A variety of profiles is available so you can get the look you want.

Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin. For a comprehensive list of cabinet making router bits videos and instruction sheets see the jump menu at upper right. Typically the groove in a cabinet door is in the middle. A breakdown of raised panel door frame and drawer bits and sets are shown below.

Finally screw the hinges and handle onto the door and install it to the cabinet. It s a good idea to make your doors 1 8 in. The yonico 12335 raised panel cabinet door router bit set beats it in terms of affordability as you can find it at a very cheap price. Let alone the fact that it doesn t have a back cutter.

Here s a classic way to put together a strong good looking door without making any unsightly holes. It s good for making a door or two but not for heavy duty jobs.