Cabinets usually need a door or two and deciding on the style of the door can be make or break the appearance of the piece.
How to build raised panel doors.
You also can make raised panel doors with a portable tablesaw.
The doors i build this way often are referred to as shaker style.
Building raised panel doors is mostly an exercise in setup and patience.
Ordinarily this will be the width of a table saw blade.
Cut the door panel insert slightly less than the size you need to allow for wood expansion and contraction.
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 vertical stiles and horizontal rails that make up the frame have square rather than contoured edges.
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.
The center panel which floats in the frame is a raised piece of solid wood a flat piece of plywood also works.
Begin assembly of the door.
All the methods however fall into two different camps.
Apply glue with a brush to the inside of the stile where the rail meets it and insert the rail tenon.
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.