Making A Raised Panel Door With Router

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Making a raised panel door with router.

Use a flat raised panel door for a quality look. In a frame and panel construction a large panel is fitted into a groove in the interior edge of a more dimensionally stable frame made of narrow. Raised panel doors are an example of frame and panel construction a method developed hundreds of years ago to combat the effects of moisture on solid wood used in cabinetry and furniture making. Check out this description in wikipedia.

The photo below isn t a raised panel but it give you a sense of the door parts. 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. One classic style of door and door construction is to make a raised panel and join the frame with a tongue and groove joint. What is a shaper.

All the methods however fall into two different camps. But the size of these bits up to 3 1 2 in diameter makes them dangerous in a hand held router for safety you should put raised panel bits in a variable speed router mounted to a router table. How to make raised panel doors on a router table a discussion of the basics and the finer points of the process. To make these raised frame and panels you will need a door making cutter set.

However the finished results can be very rewarding if you are willing and ready to step up to the challenge. You need to realize that this type of cabinet door requires more tools skill and time to create. Article for this video. Your choice of cutters will depend on whether you own a router table or a shaper.

These pieces include 2 piece stile and rail cutters with a horizontal raised panel bit with back cutter. 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. Traditional raised panels appear in almost every furniture style since roman times though the way to make them varies wildly.

Cabinet shops that turn out raised panel doors rely on heavy duty shapers and cutters or at the very least a router table setup that includes a range of expensive bits. If you are woodworker or cabinetmaker this.