Raised Panel Door Construction

There are five major steps to creating a raised panel door.

Raised panel door construction.

Rails these are the horizontal components. 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. Next you align the stick cutter with your completed cope cuts and make matching stick cuts on the rails and stiles. First you cut the parts for the rails stiles and panels to size.

Stiles these are the vertical components. Then you make the cope cuts on the end of the rails. Panels this is the field center of the. 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 strips of wood.

Solid wood panels are available in order to obtain a raised or decorative panel look in an interior door. All raised panel doors are comprised of three components. Raised panel doors are an example of frame and panel construction a method developed hundreds of years ago to combat the effects of moisture on solid wood used in cabinetry and furniture making. Solid double hip raised panels for interior doors.

One classic style of door and door construction is to make a raised panel and join the frame with a tongue and groove joint.