Raised Panel Doors With Plywood

While raised panel cabinet doors are great looking sometimes a flat panel door fits the overall look and design of the project better.

Raised panel doors with plywood.

Considerations involved in fabricating raised panel cabinet doors using veneer applied to lumber core plywood. It will be painted white not stained. All doors and the headboard and footboard of the bead will have raised panels about 11 total. Since the edge of plywood is about 50 long grain a butt joint would suffice but alignment would be easier with some other sort of joint.

The shakers are probably the best known for flat panel doors except their doors were actually raised panels turned backward. Simply run the raised panel profile as a molding in solid wood and frame the plywood panel mitering the corners. Suitable joints would be a small tongue and groove a biscuit spline or dowel. The thought of gluing up that many individual panels gives me a migraine.

A cabinet door made using infinity cutting tools plywood slot cutters on their rail and stile bits create a perfect sized groove for the plywood panel. Similar technology is employed by entry door manufacturers as an engineered raised panel. We are a residential custom casework manufacturer. After choosing your materials pick a profile for the frame and raised panel.

Is there any reason i shouldn t make the raised panels out of plywood. If you ll paint your doors substitute medium density fiberboard mdf for the solid stock and birch veneer plywood for a glass smooth finish.