Making Raised Panel Doors On A Router Table

You also can make raised panel doors with a portable tablesaw.

Making raised panel doors on a router table.

But the size of these bits up to 3 1 2 in diameter makes them dangerous in a hand held router. Table saws are great for making rip cuts cross cuts miter cuts and bevel cuts. Raised panel router bits help you create raised panels for cabinet and passage doors. The table saw is one of the most versatile tools in a workshop.

If you are woodworker or cabinetmaker this. The doors i build this way often are referred to as shaker style. 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. 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.

A large one generally 3 hp hung in a router table plus a set of specialized bits. Making raised panel doors on the table saw general woodworking or more correctly cope and stick raised panel doors. How to make raised panel doors on a router table a discussion of the basics and the finer points of the process. All the methods however fall into two different camps.

Traditional raised panels appear in almost every furniture style since roman times though the way to make them varies wildly. The vertical stiles and horizontal rails that make up the frame have square rather than contoured edges. The center panel which floats in the frame is a raised piece of solid wood a flat piece of plywood also works. Then trim the panel to its final dimensions.

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. For most rail and style router bit sets a 5 8 inch thick panel will sit in it slots in the frame and be flush with the rails and styles that s what you re aiming for. Next you need to lay out the filled area of your panel. But there is one hitch.