Making Raised Panel Doors On A Router Table

I did this originally long ago back when i couldn t afford to buy the bit set or the heavier router needed to use them that is normally used to make these doors.

Making raised panel doors on a router table.

Any competent craftsman can do high quality ra. The tool of choice for most small shop woodworkers who want to make raised panels is the router. Raised panel router bits help you create raised panels for cabinet and passage doors. The purpose of this construction is to allow for expansion and contraction across the width of the panel without splitting the door or affecting its size which is fixed by the stiles and rails.

The whole setup will cost 350 to 800 and is money well spent if you re going to make a whole kitchen full of doors. Poplar raised panels for a ceiling in a home bar. Most router table openings measure under 2 in diameter. The vertical stiles and horizontal rails that make up the frame have square rather than contoured edges.

The center panel which floats in the frame is a raised piece of solid wood a flat piece of plywood also works. A large one generally 3 hp hung in a router table plus a set of specialized bits. There is a mystique about raised panel work which is silly as the whole process is really easy and very quick. Making raised panel doors on the table saw general woodworking or more correctly cope and stick raised panel doors.

But the size of these bits up to 3 1 2 in diameter makes them dangerous in a hand held router. But there is one hitch. For safety you should put raised panel bits in a variable speed router mounted to a router table. A raised panel floats in the grooves along the stiles and rails.

Making raised panel doors on a router table.