Making Panel Doors With Router

Even the center panel was machined using a table saw.

Making panel doors with router.

If you have a router table it may not be as hard as you think to make your own. Cabinet doors can be pricey. The most common method and especially useful when doing a lot of doors such as for kitchen cabinets vanities and other cabinets is a rail and stile bit set used with a router in a router table. Today most frame and panel doors are created using a rail and stile bit set in a router that is mounted in a router table.

In that video which you can see here i primarily used a table saw to cut the tongue and groove joints for the doors. Cut the stiles to length. Of width to allow for milling the integral glass bead. The doors shown here will have 2 in.

Rails and stiles but the router bits require an extra 1 8 in. 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. Plus there are all kinds of profiles you can cut using the same process with different router bits. They should extend the full length of the doors.