This is a beginners guide to making loose tenon raised panel cabinet doors in mdf.
Raised and fielded panel door construction.
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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.
Take your time to get the router bits set up correctly test fit everything before gluing and you can produce fine looking doors for any kind of project.
Building raised panel doors is mostly an exercise in setup and patience.
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.
One method is to use a tool that is specially designed to do the job such as a panel raising plane or a panel raising router cutter.
Traditional raised panels appear in almost every furniture style since roman times though the way to make them varies wildly.
All the methods however fall into two different camps.
This is how i make bespoke raised fielded panel cabinet doors.
Raised panel fielded panel a panel with the center portion thicker than the edges or projecting above the surrounding frame or wall surface.
When exposed on both sides as on both sides of a door it is called a double raised panel.