Building Raised Panel Cabinet Doors Video

In one of my recent posts i constructed a raised panel cabinet door for this tilt out wood trash can recycling center.

Building raised panel cabinet doors video.

Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin. Building a slab or flat panel door. 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. Every choice depends on the look you are trying to achieve.

And there s more than one way to make cabinet doors. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel. 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. A brief survey of cabinet doors in my house has some totally flush with each other on the back some probably cheap construction with about 1 4 inch indentation of back panel to rails stiles.

If you are woodworker or cabinetmaker this. Building raised panel arched cabinet doors. This video is unavailable. This post will walk you though the steps to build a raised frame and panel door and if you re interested you can sign up to the get excel spreadsheet that will help you do some of the basic calculations.

The style of panel cabinet door you want can vary from the flat one described here to raised and glass panel doors. Also when you are making a series of doors do you rout all pieces at once then assemble so that no bit changing needed or do you assemble one set see how it fits then do next door. Extra tall so you can trim their ends after gluing. Traditional raised panels appear in almost every furniture style since roman times though the way to make them varies wildly.

Frame and panel doors solve the problem of wood movement that can happen with wide wood doors and the raised panel gives it an elegant finished look. Figuring the length of the stiles is easy. There are two basic types of cabinet doors slab and flat panel most often chosen. It s a good idea to make your doors 1 8 in.

One classic style of door and door construction is to make a raised panel and join the frame with a tongue and groove joint. All the methods however fall into two different camps.