Making A Raised Panel Door With Router

Horizontal bits require a more powerful router and slower operating speeds because of their large cut diameter.

Making a raised panel door with router.

The tool of choice for most small shop woodworkers who want to make raised panels is the router. 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. Mill the stock to 3 4 thickness for the stiles and rails and to 5 8 thickness for the panel.

Horizontal raised panel bits. If you d like to figure the part sizes on your own use these formulas. Rip the rails and stiles to width per the cut list. How to make raised panel doors on a router table a discussion of the basics and the finer points of the process.

First you cut the parts for the rails stiles and panels to size. 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. 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.

There are five major steps to creating a raised panel door. Traditional raised panels appear in almost every furniture style since roman times though the way to make them varies wildly. 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.

Making raised panel doors on the table saw general woodworking or more correctly cope and stick raised panel doors. If you are woodworker or cabinetmaker this. All the methods however fall into two different camps. Check out our raised panel project calculator for an easy way to determine the sizes of your door parts.

Build your own raised panel doors with our 3 piece shaker raised panel door router bit set. Crosscut them to length leaving them somewhat oversized. 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.