A while back we took a look at the infinity tongue and groove router bit sets for making mission style and shaker style doors.
Making shaker doors with router.
Want to make shaker cabinet doors but don t have a router.
And while i was at it i needed to make two doors for a cabinet i have been working on for a friend.
I recently showed you all the beginning of my laundry room remodel.
These are simple shaker style cabinet doors and are not very expensive to make but i warn you they are a little time consuming.
68837 making cabinet doors is easy fun and cost effective.
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.
How to build shaker cabinet doors with a router how to inset the doors into a face frame for a high end look.
Making shaker doors using a router hits.
But i still had to make shaker cabinet doors for the big cabinet that i built.
While there are many options for door making the standard is frame and panel doors.
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 doors with a frame made most of the time from hardwood and a panel made of anything from solid wood to plywood to mdf.
Cabinet doors can be pricey.
What you may not know is that we also have a shaker rail and stile router bit set 91 505 and shaker style raised panel bit 91 506 both of these are sold as one of our money saving 3 pc cabinet door router bit sets 00 203.
I ve built them for both my large built in cabinet the tv stand and they were the same style.
If you d like to figure the part sizes on your own use these formulas.
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.
Build your own raised panel doors with our 3 piece shaker raised panel door router bit set.
Well we wanted two shaker drawer fronts but the process to make a cabinet door is just the same.
Find out the easiest ways to make your own shaker cabinet doors without special tools for cheap.
With wood you can purchase at any hardware or lumber store anyone can make beautiful and functional doors in no time.
Plus there are all kinds of profiles you can cut using the same process with different router bits.
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.
To make a true shaker style cabinet you need a router but we don t have a router.
Rail length door width stile width x 2.
If you have a router table it may not be as hard as you think to make your own.
Check out our raised panel project calculator for an easy way to determine the sizes of your door parts.
If you ve been reading this blog for a while then you ve probably seen me write about building shaker cabinet doors before.
