Making Raised Panel Doors

Panel doors consist of two stiles side pieces and two rails top and bottom along with a panel that sits between them.

Making raised panel doors.

Any competent craftsman can do high quality ra. 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. If you are doing raised panels or using solid wood for the panels you must be aware of wood movement and take precautions or else your door could crack with the changing of the seasons. It didn t come with any information.

Also could you tell me manufactured of router fence you used. I was wondering if you could tell me manufacturer of router bits. We ll show you the best tips techniques and tools to make doors quickly and easily without expensive panel raising 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.

The vertical stiles and horizontal rails that make up the frame have square rather than contoured edges. 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. Traditional raised panels appear in almost every furniture style since roman times though the way to make them varies wildly. For my door i used 1 2 1 27cm inch mdf for the panels.

Http www ibuildit ca woodworking 20projects raised panel doors html the tenon jig. The center panel which floats in the frame is a raised piece of solid wood a flat piece of plywood also works. The doors i build this way often are referred to as shaker style. All the methods however fall into two different camps.

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. 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. Plywood and mdf are great options for panels as they are stable and easy to come by. Learn a new way to make beautiful raised panel doors.

There is a mystique about raised panel work which is silly as the whole process is really easy and very quick. You were using a bit set that i purchased on craigslist. Accuracy and consistency of width assures a good fit. I watched your video making raised panel doors uploaded on oct 11 2007.