Making Kitchen Cabinet Doors With A Router

Here s a classic way to put together a strong good looking door without making any unsightly holes.

Making kitchen cabinet doors with a router.

I built my cabinet doors with simple frames and floating panels as in the panels float inside the frame. Extra tall so you can trim their ends after gluing. A couple of things. If you have a router table it may not be as hard as you think to make your own.

Ease the edges of the face with a router using the bit of your choice. While it seems like diy routed cabinet doors are more complicated they are actually just as easy to assemble as the other cabinet doors. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin. There are a million ways to make a door but this method is fairly simple and worked with the tools i already had.

A breakdown of raised panel door frame and drawer bits and sets are shown below. 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. Cut dadoes in cabinet door frames.

To make beautiful cabinet doors with no visible joinery you need to router the rails to fit inside the stiles. For a comprehensive list of cabinet making router bits videos and instruction sheets see the jump menu at upper right. Cabinet door door making router bit sets in stock ready to ship today. Product freud cabinet bit set a g e.

These cabinet doors are held together with just glue and they look amazing. Best router bits for cabinet doors. Cabinet doors can be pricey. Plus there are all kinds of profiles you can cut using the same process with different router bits.

Cut the door from the sheet using either a circular saw or a table saw. In this tutorial i am going to show you how i made shaker style drawer fronts using a router table and rail and stile router bits. And in this article we ll recommend you 3 of the best router bits for cabinet doors that will help you excel the job of setting up a door for your cabinets. Put on the desired finish install the hinges and doorknob and you are ready to hang the cabinet door.