DIY 4 Panel wooden Door, part 4. raised panel cutting with a straight router

Full details at http://www.iDoStuff.co.uk. How to make a timber external door. This forth part shows how to make raised panels using a simple jig and straight router cutter. After how to joint boards, joining boards to make a panel. All details, dimensions and plans to make a timber / wooden door are on the web site.

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[bzarmy]

At the moment I have to make a similar paneled door at college. Please explain why my tutor is forcing me to draw a model of the unit, from a work book?- cant I just make the paneled door, like these blokes, without drawing the length, thickness and height of the components, as well as, panel slots onto paper?

[agbagb123]

@bzarmy, It's likely that you'll get marks for how well you can plan the job, drawings are to pass the course not make the door. It's a skill you might need in the future and comes in handy for more complex jobs: to workout materials, to present a design, to workout how to make it, to explain how it should be made (others might be making parts of it). In a commercial situation you could need these kind of skills to take a step up from the shop floor. Get as many skills as you can. Good luck.

[odmcarp]

Using your method might take a little longer but it's much safer to use than traditional cutter blades, especially for the DIYer. I'd also like to add that it was very descent of you to fast forward past the boring gluing stage of the work. :) Excellent video.

[agbagb123]

@odmcarp, Thanks. You're right it's a low cost DIY solution, it takes longer than using standard bits. To get the size I wanted would have needed custom cutters on a spindle moulder, out of the question for me with such small quanities. It's a alternative technique that gets the job done proving you don't always to spend to get results. I hadn't really thought about it being safer, but guess you right, less can go pear shaped with a smaller cutter in the hands of the less experienced. Cheers.

[blzbub1]

While it's nice to have the traditional skills, the World is now a different place and it's impossible to compete commercially with the far eastern door factories, where they churn out a raised panel door in minutes. I guess you would have paid about 50 quid for the timber, plus the best part of 2 days work for machining and assembly and if you value your time at around 100 quid a day, it makes that an expensive door. Sad that bespoke joinery is going down the tubes like so many other industries

[agbagb123]

@blzbub1 , You're quite right it would be easier to just buy a door. I always look at this kind of thing as a balance between time and money. If I can put the time in I don't need the money. Using £250 as a start, I would have to earn around £360 before tax. Buying an imported door at £250 minus VAT, distributor, shipping etc. might only be worth £100. I'm not sure where I'm going with this but It's a thought anyway.

[mpsrenovations]

Very nice

[Films4You]

1:00 "You take the biscuit" then you take your fingers off 2:42 no push sticks

[sariondolem]

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[yopagedotcom]

WEEEE careful--watch those fingers on the table saw!!!

Nice way to knock out some doors. Still a lot of work, doors always are, but worth it with nice wood.

[Lightboxes]

I like doors.