How To Make A Panel Door Cabinet

Add 1 2 inch the length of two tenons.

How to make a panel door cabinet.

Run the stock through a thickness planer bring the wood to 1 2 or 3 8 in. Thickness glue it up and achieve the flat panel. Step 1 choose which door to make. Rout sturdy door joinery and glass retainers in one operation.

Learn how to make professional grade flat panel cabinet doors for stronger better looking stain grade doors by using real wood instead of mdf or plywood. When cutting the rails and stiles to length add 1 to the final inside width of the frame. Most slab doors are made of plywood. Subtract this number from the desired width of the door.

You should consider the need for speed of construction durability ease of cleanup and maintenance step 2 pick the correct material to fit your doors. You ll also need at least two extra test pieces that are the same thickness as your rails and stiles. Cut center panel to the final height of the cabinet door minus the rails width x2 and the width of the cabinet door minus the stiles width x2 step 1. To figure the length of the rails measure the total width of two stiles placed side by side.

Make a jig for a half lap joint. You can make the same joinery in your shop with a router table and a matched set of router bits a sticking bit forms a decorative profile around the inside edges of the frame and a coping bit creates a mirror image profile on the ends of the rails plus. Most production made cabinet doors are assembled with cope and stick joinery. There are two basic types of cabinet doors slab and flat panel most often chosen.

Cut your center panel out of 1 2 plywood. How to make frame and panel cabinet doors home improvement with all of the upper cabinets for my kitchen made and installed i moved on to making the cabinet doors. In this video i am copying the dimensions of an old cabinet door in order to replace one that is missing in the kitchen. The style i picked is a simple frame and panel with the frame made from solid maple.

Now that you ve got the technique down for creating half lap joinery try your hand at using half lap joints to create the frame for a glass panel door or mirror. You can make beautiful flush corners with a dado head cutter on your table saw.