Making Shaker Doors Using Router

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.

Making shaker doors using router.

In this video i show how to make shaker style cabinet doors with a router. Build your own raised panel doors with our 3 piece shaker raised panel door router bit set. Install your tongue cutters into the router isolate the bearing and set the height so that the tongue will be cut through the middle of the thickness of the wood. Rail length door width stile width x 2.

Glue up shaker cabinet door. These are doors with a frame made most of the time from hardwood and a panel made of anything from solid wood to plywood to mdf. If you ve been reading this blog for a while then you ve probably seen me write about building shaker cabinet doors before. Cut the tongues on all four rails and be sure to always cut them using the same side of wood as you marked.

I really love the look of shaker style cabinet doors and i wanted to lighten up my hallway since it s so dark up there. I ve built them for both my large built in cabinet the tv stand and they were the same style. Instead of gel staining or chalk painting these ones i decided to just get rid of the oak doors and to make shaker cabinet doors on my own and i didn t even use a router. If you d like to figure the part sizes on your own use these formulas.

Check out our raised panel project calculator for an easy way to determine the sizes of your door parts. These doors can also be made with a table saw. Here i have two options. How to build shaker cabinet doors with a router how to inset the doors into a face frame for a high end look.

To glue place the plywood in the grooves of the sides and liberally squirt glue along the inside of the top and bottom where the top and bottom 1x3s will go. If you like this video please like. 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. You could also use dowels if you d rather that s typically what i do lately.