Making Raised Panel Doors On A Router Table

Making raised panel doors on a router table.

Making raised panel doors on a router table.

You also can make raised panel doors with a portable tablesaw. The vertical stiles and horizontal rails that make up the frame have square rather than contoured edges. Jack gordon june 11 2019 0 comments. The center panel which floats in the frame is a raised piece of solid wood a flat piece of plywood also works.

There is a mystique about raised panel work which is silly as the whole process is really easy and very quick. 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. The tool of choice for most small shop woodworkers who want to make raised panels is the router. But there is one hitch.

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. For safety you should put raised panel bits in a variable speed router mounted to a router table. But the size of these bits up to 3 1 2 in diameter makes them dangerous in a hand held router. Raised panel router bits help you create raised panels for cabinet and passage doors.

The doors i build this way often are referred to as shaker style. 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. Most router table openings measure under 2 in diameter.

Any competent craftsman can do high quality ra.