How To Build Shaker Cabinet Doors With Router

Want to make shaker cabinet doors but don t have a router.

How to build shaker cabinet doors with router.

Although you can create the grooves for tenons using a router saw as well. How to build shaker cabinet doors with a router how to inset the doors into a face frame for a high end look. I have been busy remodeling my hallway upstairs. I recently showed you all the beginning of my laundry room remodel.

For a diy shaker cabinet door i used these cabinet router bits. We ve lived in this house for 13 years and it was the same as when we first moved in sigh. 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. If you ve been reading this blog for a while then you ve probably seen me write about building shaker cabinet doors before.

And while i was at it i needed to make two doors for a cabinet i have been working on for a friend. I ve built them for both my large built in cabinet the tv stand and they were the same style. But i still had to make shaker cabinet doors for the big cabinet that i built. And while a router lift on your table would make it easier to adjust the bit height it can be done without it i know because i did it.

Stiles will run the entire height of the cabinet door and rails run between the length of the stiles. These are simple shaker style cabinet doors and are not very expensive to make but i warn you they are a little time consuming. 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. To create the panel and frame cabinet doors you are going to need to create two rails two stiles and a single panel for each door.