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Routing Panels for Cabinet Doors

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Cheaper to Build or Buy Kitchen Cabinets?!

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What happens here

The presenter prepares the wood panels that will sit within the cabinet door frames. He explains that these will be 'raised panels' with a recessed look, characteristic of shaker-style doors. He uses a router table fitted with a cove bit to create the decorative edge profile on these panels. This step requires careful handling and multiple passes to achieve the desired shape and depth, preparing the panels for assembly into the door frames.

Goal: The panels for the cabinet doors are prepared using a router table to create the desired raised panel profile, essential for a shaker-style door.

Tools and materials

  • Cove Bit
  • Hearing Protection
  • Router Table
  • Safety Glasses
  • Plywood

What they say

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doors this is going to suck folks I finished up all the cabinet door uh Styles and rails and they're they they have this interlocking mechanism tongue and groove so you cut all your channels out everything's a perfect fit I also cut up all of my raised panels cuz these are going to be raised panel kind of Shaker style door they get the same tongue and groove Fiasco on the sides now to give it that raised panel recessed look that three-dimensional perspective there's two ways you can go about it you create a jig on your table saw and cut whatever angle I don't know it is uh at the side uh or if you have a nice router table like I do we have this Cove bit that sits over here so we're just going to run our panels and then once all our panels are ran we can put all these suckers together and we're going to have some [Music] doors So This Is The Moment of Truth uh I hate

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