Making Shaker Doors Using Router

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.

Making shaker doors using router.

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. How to build shaker cabinet doors with a router how to inset the doors into a face frame for a high end look. While there are many options for door making the standard is frame and panel doors. That is the question.

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. Build your own raised panel doors with our 3 piece shaker raised panel door router bit set. If you ve been reading this blog for a while then you ve probably seen me write about building shaker cabinet doors before. I ve built them for both my large built in cabinet the tv stand and they were the same style.

The simplest form of the frame and panel door is the shaker style door known for its no frills look clean and simple. Here i have two options. 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. These doors can also be made with a table saw.

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. If you d like to figure the part sizes on your own use these formulas. If you like this video please like. In this video i show how to make shaker style cabinet doors with a router.

Check out our raised panel project calculator for an easy way to determine the sizes of your door parts. Rail length door width stile width x 2. Glue up shaker cabinet door. You could also use dowels if you d rather that s typically what i do lately.