Making Raised Panel Interior Doors

Cabinet shops that turn out raised panel doors rely on heavy duty shapers and cutters or at the very least a router table setup that includes a range of expensive bits.

Making raised panel interior doors. The 6 panel molded interior door from jeld wen is the 6 panel molded interior door from jeld wen is perfectly suited to classic american architecture. The construction process for making solid wood interior doors bedroom bathroom etc i this case they are being made from some pretty rough lumber crooked. This door has a woodgrain surface with a modified cove and bead sticking profile. There are lots of different choices and lots of different hardware considerations but one door style that makers come back to time and time again is the frame and panel door and particularly the raised panel door.

I build mine by laminating two pieces of 3 4 thick stock. Clamps clamps and more clamps. To prove that you don t need expensive cutters to make handsome doors we made the beautiful raised panel doors above using only three common router bits. If you also need to build or install a frame you will need to take the width of the frame into consideration and because shimming a door frame can add some thickness it is best to wait until after the door frame is installed before building the door or build them.

Interior doors are usually 1 3 8 thick. One classic style of door and door construction is to make a raised panel and join the frame with a tongue and groove joint. Making raised panel doors on the table saw general woodworking or more correctly cope and stick raised panel doors. I needed custom doors for my basement because of the low ceilings.

The client took an integral part in choosing lumber and its location in the door. Learn a new way to make beautiful raised panel doors. We ll show you the best tips techniques and tools to make doors quickly and easily without expensive panel raising bits. 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.

And there s more than one way to make cabinet doors. In a frame and panel construction a large panel is fitted into a groove in the interior edge of a more dimensionally stable frame made of narrow. The door frame is built using loose tenons or dominoes with a panel that floats in a groove in the frame. Doors should generally be around 1 8 to 3 16 smaller than the frame.

The first step in making a door is taking measurements. One way jeld wen supports sustainable construction is by using recycled materials in the production of our molded interior doors.