Making A Cabinet Door With A Router

For more tips including how to build a raised panel cabinet door read on.

Making a cabinet door with a router.

Build something extraordinary with our large selection of quality woodworking door and panel router bits at rockler woodworking and hardware. Once you ve cut the door out soften its sides with a router to get rid of any rough edges. To get started we need to figure out the height of the 1 4 groove. A breakdown of raised panel door frame and drawer bits and sets are shown below.

For a comprehensive list of cabinet making router bits videos and instruction sheets see the jump menu at upper right. 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. Extra tall so you can trim their ends after gluing. Set the groove depth.

It s good for making a door or two but not for heavy duty jobs. After that coat the door with your desired finish to give it a glossy elegant look. It s a good idea to make your doors 1 8 in. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin.

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. The stiles are fairly easy to make. Here s a classic way to put together a strong good looking door without making any unsightly holes. It s quite versatile but not as durable as the other two sets.

Let alone the fact that it doesn t have a back cutter. We offer all of the router bits you ll need to construct raised panel doors drawers and the cabinet carcase. 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. How to make raised panel doors on a router table a discussion of the basics and the finer points of the process.

Typically the groove in a cabinet door is in the middle. 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.