Making Raised Panel Doors

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Making raised panel doors.

Also could you tell me manufactured of router fence you used. You were using a bit set that i purchased on craigslist. 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. To prove that you don t need expensive cutters to make handsome doors we made the beautiful raised panel doors above using only three common router bits.

We ll show you the best tips techniques and tools to make doors quickly and easily without expensive panel raising bits. Helpful 0 not helpful 0. It didn t come with any information. Learn a new way to make beautiful raised panel doors.

All the methods however fall into two different camps. One classic style of door and door construction is to make a raised panel and join the frame with a tongue and groove joint. In this video i m going to show you how to make raised panels like this using a table saw in a standard combination blade. There is a mystique about raised panel work which is silly as the whole process is really easy and very quick.

Making raised panel doors with a table saw video transcript. I watched your video making raised panel doors uploaded on oct 11 2007. 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. Cabinets usually need a door or two and deciding on the style of the door can be make or break the appearance of the piece.

And there s more than one way to make cabinet doors. Do not attempt to build a flat or raised panel door without a router table. 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. For standard rectangular raised panels all you really need is the saw blades you already own and you don t need a big table saw either.

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. There are lots of different choices and lots of different hardware considerations but one door style that makers come back to time and time again is the frame and panel door and particularly the raised panel door. I was wondering if you could tell me manufacturer of router bits. Traditional raised panels appear in almost every furniture style since roman times though the way to make them varies wildly.