Making A Cabinet Door With A Router

Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin.

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. 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. A variety of profiles is available so you can get the look you want. For more tips including how to build a raised panel cabinet door read on.

Build something extraordinary with our large selection of quality woodworking door and panel router bits at rockler woodworking and hardware. Here s a classic way to put together a strong good looking door without making any unsightly holes. The stiles are fairly easy to make. To get started we need to figure out the height of the 1 4 groove.

It s quite versatile but not as durable as the other two sets. 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. It s a good idea to make your doors 1 8 in.

We offer all of the router bits you ll need to construct raised panel doors drawers and the cabinet carcase. Extra tall so you can trim their ends after gluing. A breakdown of raised panel door frame and drawer bits and sets are shown below. After that coat the door with your desired finish to give it a glossy elegant look.

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. It s good for making a door or two but not for heavy duty jobs. 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. How to make raised panel doors on a router table a discussion of the basics and the finer points of the process.

Let alone the fact that it doesn t have a back cutter. Typically the groove in a cabinet door is in the middle.