Building Stile And Rail Cabinet Doors

Apply glue to the tenon of that rail.

Building stile and rail 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. 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 drawings below show a sampling of the profiles commonly available. 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.

Make sure the rail is even with the end of the stile. Common rail stile bit options. Cut your stiles and rails to length. But standard wood glue will also work.

For the panel the center of the cabinet door you will use 1 4 red oak plywood. Push the rail into the stile making sure the top edge of the rail is even with the end of the stile. 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. Below we ll take a look at some of the tools and techniques that make building perfect frame and panel doors a process that anyone with a few basic woodworking skills can enjoy.

Apply glue to both sides of the groove in one stile and one rail. Building cabinet doors is easy when you have a rail and stile router. 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. Most cabinet doors have frames that are assembled with rail stile joints also commonly called cope and stick joints.

The yonico 12335 cabinet set comes at a very affordable price but still allows you to create professional and stellar raised panel cabinet doors. Savannah paint white paint savannah alder french roast glass door style x alder french roast. The stiles and rails cut to length and ready to be grooved. 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.

Measure cabinet door openings carefully. Slide in the panel. 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. In fact that s not the case at all.

In the example above an 18 x 38 cabinet door would have 2 38 vertical stiles and 2 15 horizontal. A 4 x 8 piece is around 25.