Making Shaker Doors With Router

To make a true shaker style cabinet you need a router but we don t have a router.

Making shaker doors with router. Cabinet doors can be pricey. Build your own raised panel doors with our 3 piece shaker raised panel door router bit set. 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. 68837 making cabinet doors is easy fun and cost effective.

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. These are simple shaker style cabinet doors and are not very expensive to make but i warn you they are a little time consuming. How to build shaker cabinet doors with a router how to inset the doors into a face frame for a high end look. The simplest form of the frame and panel door is the shaker style door known for its no frills look clean and simple.

If you have a router table it may not be as hard as you think to make your own. 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. But i still had to make shaker cabinet doors for the big cabinet that i built. If you ve been reading this blog for a while then you ve probably seen me write about building shaker cabinet doors before.

I recently showed you all the beginning of my laundry room remodel. We ve lived in this house for 13 years and it was the same as when we first moved in sigh. Rail length door width stile width x 2. Plus there are all kinds of profiles you can cut using the same process with different router bits.

Shaker cabinets are the go to style for drawers and cabinets these days so of course when we started planning our vanity we wanted to diy shaker cabinet doors. Want to make shaker cabinet doors but don t have a router. With wood you can purchase at any hardware or lumber store anyone can make beautiful and functional doors in no time. Well we wanted two shaker drawer fronts but the process to make a cabinet door is just the same.

And while i was at it i needed to make two doors for a cabinet i have been working on for a friend. A while back we took a look at the infinity tongue and groove router bit sets for making mission style and shaker style doors. If you d like to figure the part sizes on your own use these formulas. I ve built them for both my large built in cabinet the tv stand and they were the same style.

While there are many options for door making the standard is frame and panel doors. Making shaker doors using a router hits. 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. Check out our raised panel project calculator for an easy way to determine the sizes of your door parts.