How YBeNormal helped saved my marriage

[Origami]

Nice work! Nice dust pick up system, too. Are the doors commercial purchases or did you do all the rail, stile, and panel work from scratch?

[jnguyen4007]

the door was a cheap commercial purchase that I bought online. I think I paid $25 for both doors.

[YBeNormal]

As James said, these doors were from Cabinet Doors and Hardware. They sell doors cheaper than I can even buy the materials to build them. I can and do build doors from scratch though when I need a custom size or design for a project.

[Origami]

Thanks Bob & James. In doing my cabinetry, it's nice to know there's an option like that available. In building my stand, I did my doors myself not knowing that I had such an option. However, not having a 3/4" router to go with the matched panel, rail, and stile bits that I was looking at (I have two 1/2" routers, but neither would take the larger bits I was looking at and both were undersized for the job), I decided to use my biscuit joiner for the door joinery and to use a flat, rather than a shaped panel. I like the doors you chose, James. You've got a beautiful stand.

Edited April 8, 2008 by Origami2547

[YBeNormal]

Both of my raised panel bit sets are 1/2" and I have used them in my 1-3/4HP and 2-1/4HP Porter Cable routers. Just have to make multiple passes and watch the feed rate. I will admit that the 3.75" panel bits are pretty scary though!

[Origami]

Yeah, the panel bits I was most interested in were the bigger ones that came with a 3/4 inch shank. I considered the smaller ones with the 1/2 inch shank but decided that I'd forego the compromise. I also considered trying to get a larger collet to retrofit on one of the other two routers that I have. No luck. In the end, I just built the cabinet door frame using the smaller face-frame biscuits and shaped the inside and outside edges using a simple round-over bit. I came so close, though, to talking myself into a bigger router just so I could play with the rail and stile bits. May still do it someday - just to play, you know?

Edited April 9, 2008 by Origami2547