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In my garage is a storage cabinet with flat 22x42 3/4 plywood doors.
We are dressing up this area a bit.
QUESTION:In my garage is a storage cabinet with flat 22x42 3/4 plywood doors.
We are dressing up this area a bit.
What do you think about using the old doors to make raised panels doors?
Then using 3/4 birch plywood for the rail and stiles.
Would the plywood shape ok with a 3 1/2" raised panel router bit?
It would be painted.
Any thoughts?
ANSWER: -You could do the panels with MDF but ply will never give you a smoothe
enough surface and the glue will kill your cutter.
Rails\Stiles should be solid stock. I can't imagine why you would want
to try to use ply it will be really bad.
-Paint grade?.... Make the doors out of MDF. Flat, stable, and takes
paint very well.
...but for a plywood RP door, the way to do it is use plywood *only for
the field of the panel.* For the raise, glue (& miter) solid lumber
around the ply field, and then shape the raise. Door stile & rails
should be solid lumber. This works great for RP doors that have large
panels. They can be plywood,or veneered MDF, and you don't have the
expansion issues you'd run into with lumber. I'd only recommend this
for stain grade stuff though, cause it's kinda labor intensive.
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