Making Shaker Doors With A Router

Cabinet doors can be pricey.

Making shaker doors with a router.

We ve lived in this house for 13 years and it was the same as when we first moved in sigh. I have been busy remodeling my hallway upstairs. Want to make shaker cabinet doors but don t have a router. These doors can also be made with a table saw.

Plus there are all kinds of profiles you can cut using the same process with different router bits. If you ve been reading this blog for a while then you ve probably seen me write about building shaker cabinet doors before. Find out the easiest ways to make your own shaker cabinet doors without special tools for cheap. But i still had to make shaker cabinet doors for the big cabinet that i built.

Learn how to build cabinet door frames using a rail and stile router bit set. These are simple shaker style cabinet doors and are not very expensive to make but i warn you they are a little time consuming. The clean but distinctive look of shaker cabinets make them a popular style choice. And while i was at it i needed to make two doors for a cabinet i have been working on for a friend.

I ve built them for both my large built in cabinet the tv stand and they were the same style. How to build shaker cabinet doors with a router how to inset the doors into a face frame for a high end look. 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. 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.

Most cabinet doors especially if they are made in a factory have frames tha. If you have a router table it may not be as hard as you think to make your own. In this video i show how to make shaker style cabinet doors with a router.