Building Stile And Rail Cabinet Doors

The stiles and rails cut to length and ready to be grooved.

Building stile and rail cabinet doors.

Savannah paint white paint savannah alder french roast glass door style x alder french roast. Cut your stiles and rails to length. In the example above an 18 x 38 cabinet door would have 2 38 vertical stiles and 2 15 horizontal. Most cabinet doors have frames that are assembled with rail stile joints also commonly called cope and stick joints.

Measure cabinet door openings carefully. The width depends on whether it s a single or double door cabinet with a single door spanning the full width of the box and double doors only half the width. The yonico 12335 cabinet set comes at a very affordable price but still allows you to create professional and stellar raised panel cabinet doors. When building cabinet doors for a face frame cabinet the doors need to be 1 wider and 1 taller than the opening in the face.

You can use it with stock sizes of up to an inch and rely on the rail and stile bits to create rail and stile door frames that perfectly match. If you are building doors after making the cabinet carcasses measure the actual carcass openings to verify the final sizes of your door rails and stiles. Push the rail into the stile making sure the top edge of the rail is even with the end of the stile. Again these are easily found at most home improvement stores.

Building cabinet doors is easy when you have a rail and stile router. These joints feature a decorative profile such as a flat shaker edge a rounder or an ogee that frames the panel and a groove that contains the panel. For the panel the center of the cabinet door you will use 1 4 red oak plywood. From a simple bevel to a an ornate french provincial profile you can find a set to suit just about any style of cabinet door.

As an alternative to the two bit set several manufacturers also offer a single bit option. The drawings below show a sampling of the profiles commonly available. Remember that cabinet door stiles extend all the way to the top and bottom of a door and the rails fit in between the stiles. Apply glue to the tenon of that rail.

Make sure the rail is even with the end of the stile. But standard wood glue will also work. In fact that s not the case at all. Common rail stile bit options.

A 4 x 8 piece is around 25. Unfortunately many hobbyists and weekend woodworkers think that making cabinet doors requires years of woodworking experience.