Want to make shaker cabinet doors but don t have a router.
Making shaker doors with router.
I recently showed you all the beginning of my laundry room remodel.
These are simple shaker style cabinet doors and are not very expensive to make but i warn you they are a little time consuming.
The simplest form of the frame and panel door is the shaker style door known for its no frills look clean and simple.
How to build shaker cabinet doors with a router how to inset the doors into a face frame for a high end look.
And while i was at it i needed to make two doors for a cabinet i have been working on for a friend.
The secret to building frame and panel shaker doors or drawer fronts like a pro is to use our rail and stile shaker router bit set.
Well we wanted two shaker drawer fronts but the process to make a cabinet door is just the same.
What you may not know is that we also have a shaker rail and stile router bit set 91 505 and shaker style raised panel bit 91 506 both of these are sold as one of our money saving 3 pc cabinet door router bit sets 00 203.
Making shaker doors using a router hits.
But i still had to make shaker cabinet doors for the big cabinet that i built.
While there are many options for door making the standard is frame and panel doors.
If you have a router table it may not be as hard as you think to make your own.
With wood you can purchase at any hardware or lumber store anyone can make beautiful and functional doors in no time.
I have been busy remodeling my hallway upstairs.
I ve built them for both my large built in cabinet the tv stand and they were the same style.
Plus there are all kinds of profiles you can cut using the same process with different router bits.
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.
68837 making cabinet doors is easy fun and cost effective.
Build your own raised panel doors with our 3 piece shaker raised panel door router bit set.
Rail length door width stile width x 2.
Cabinet doors can be pricey.
If you d like to figure the part sizes on your own use these formulas.
We ve lived in this house for 13 years and it was the same as when we first moved in sigh.
Rail and stile joints also referred to as cope and stick joints feature a frame profile that surrounds the panel and a groove that contains the panel.
A while back we took a look at the infinity tongue and groove router bit sets for making mission style and shaker style doors.
To make a true shaker style cabinet you need a router but we don t have a router.
If you ve been reading this blog for a while then you ve probably seen me write about building shaker cabinet doors before.
Check out our raised panel project calculator for an easy way to determine the sizes of your door parts.
