Raised Panel Doors With Plywood

Considerations involved in fabricating raised panel cabinet doors using veneer applied to lumber core plywood.

Raised panel doors with plywood.

Is there any reason i shouldn t make the raised panels out of plywood. The plywood will be cabinet grade birch. The thought of gluing up that many individual panels gives me a migraine. 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.

Similar technology is employed by entry door manufacturers as an engineered raised panel. We are a residential custom casework manufacturer. We are currently researching the use of hardwood lumber core with matching veneer for our raised panel doors. If you ll paint your doors substitute medium density fiberboard mdf for the solid stock and birch veneer plywood for a glass smooth finish.

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. Suitable joints would be a small tongue and groove a biscuit spline or dowel. It will be painted white not stained. While raised panel cabinet doors are great looking sometimes a flat panel door fits the overall look and design of the project better.

The panel raises when we apply a second plywood panel framed with molding. Simply run the raised panel profile as a molding in solid wood and frame the plywood panel mitering the corners.