Making Beaded Cabinet Doors

These are simple shaker style cabinet doors and are not very expensive to make but i warn you they are a little time consuming.

Making beaded cabinet doors.

But i still had to make shaker cabinet doors for the big cabinet that i built. To build cabinet doors you need a table saw or router table to cut the groove for your panel to sit in. And while i was at it i needed to make two doors for a cabinet i have been working on for a friend. My initial thought was to make a mitered door making the inside bead easy by routing it.

Most cabinet doors especially if they are made in a factory have frames tha. In this tutorial i m using the beadlock basic starter kit from rockler which includes a 3 8 drill bit and drilling jig. I am making the doors on my home kitchen cabinets and my wife has her mind set on a flat recessed panel door with an 1 8 bead on the inside edge of the stile and rail with an edge treatment some form of ogee most likely around the perimeter of the door. The very simplest method is to take a small block of wood say 2 x 2 x 75 50mm x 50mm x 18mm and drive a short straight slot wood screw right into the center of one of the faces of the block.

I recently showed you all the beginning of my laundry room remodel. You also need to order the 3 8 tennon stock.