Tongue and Groove / Rail and Stile Router Bits - Shaker Style Doors Making

hello everyone I'm Colin canet today I'm going to use these two router bits in my router table to make this lovely shaker-style door so let's get started when you look at a door the styles are always the full length of the door so you don't need any measurement changes with those the rails however you do and when we look at the end so when we're trying to figure out how long these rails need to be we need to take into consideration how long these tongues are because there's the end of the wood there and there's the other end there so we're going to be cutting that part out of it and here's how we figure that out there's the four components I'm going to use to make my door now the styles I already know are a foot long so they're fine they're the full length of the door I don't have to do any more cutting with them but the rails I do and I've cut these extra long because I don't really know how long to cut them yet and the way I'm going to figure that out because I want this door to be 10 inches wide so the way I'm going to figure that out because I had some scrap pieces and you'll always have some scrap pieces I put in my tongue cutting bit and look at this I've cut two tongues and now all I need to do is measure these and as it turns out they're 7/8 of an inch so whatever here's how I'm going to figure out how long I need to cut these so I always work with two inch pieces of wood that's just the easiest way to do that and to make a 10 inch wide door what I need to do is I know if I go 10 inches like this I need to take two inches off this side so two inches off this side plus two inches off this side so tan take away two is eight take away another two is six and add 7 eighths because those two together equals seven eighths so six and seven eighths that's how long this needs be for me to make a perfectly ten inch wide door now the next thing I'm going to do is mark all of my wood and in my case you can use a pencil I like to use blue tape because it stands out to me and I know where it is now this is going to be what I'm putting on here this is going to be the back of every component for the door so every time I cut a piece I know that I want to be seeing blue tape and the reason for that is this when I adjust the bit here I'll know that they're all wherever whatever bit that I'm using that all of the bits will be keyed to the base plate so the distance between the base plate and the bit that's going to be how I'm going to measure it so these will always be consistent no matter what component if I'm making twenty doors or one door they'll all be consistent so that's the front of the door now when I install this bit before I even installed a bit because I'm working with a split fence I made sure that my fence was even all the way across and I just used a ruler to make sure that it doesn't hang up when I move it across the other thing that I did when I installed this bit is I did something called isolating the bearing and I'm just going to release the fence so that it'll move back and forth and what I'm going to do now you see there's a bearing in there what I want to do I want to make that bearing absolutely equal with the fence and I can just all I need to do is move one side of it so that it's just touching just barely moving that bearing in this case the material that I'm using is three-quarters of an inch I know that my tongue is a quarter inch wide so basically I need a quarter inch on each side and if you look carefully at this you'll see that in my rough cut here I'm off a little bit and if I put that through there you can actually see that this bit is just a little bit high so I need to lower it and to do that I use these little marking bars so I'll put a link on the in the article and web you'll be able to see those these are the handiest little things for measuring I think that's a little hard to see but I think you can just barely see that it's a little hot now I always recommend running a test and usually you have some scrap left over so it's best to do that so what I'm going to do now I'm going to cut the rails and because the tape is on top I know that I can just turn them around like this so this is where you want to make sure this is why the tape is so important because you don't want to cut one on one side and then inadvertently flip it over like that because then your cuts are going to be off so I'm going to cut both sides of these and I use one of these this is just a push block with an absolutely square corner and I put these circles semi circles on here so that I know that I've tested them with a square to make sure they're absolutely square so that when I push these through they're square against the fence or flat against the fence flat against my wood and that will give me a perfectly square cut in theirs [Music] [Music] the reason we always cut the tongue first is because we use it as a measurement to cut the groove so I'm just going to take a moment now and put the groove bit in now when I put the new bit in of course I had to readjust the fence to do that so I need to make sure now that I'm going to isolate that bearing again this little test that I'm going to run what I want to happen I want that I'm just going to touch that bit at the very end of this tongue and what I want I want to see the wood flaring on both sides just barely so there's a little bit of flaring on the top and the bottom and that means I've got that bit centered if it's too high or too low we'll actually see a little sliver of wood so let's go ahead I've said it I think the best I can let's see if we can see how close I am well that was pretty lucky it looks like its flared you can see how it looks like it's flared on both sides usually I'm high or low a little bit but like I got lucky on this one so let's go ahead and make those cuts and see how this fits up okay so this is of course the back of our door because what we were working on was to make this part absolutely even so let's have a look there it looks to me there's a tiny bit of sanding is gonna make those perfect in fact I can't even feel a Ridge there so it doesn't work out quite that good every time but you know the more you practice it the better you get at it and the one I want to see right now is how did we do how do we do getting our width here we want it to go 10 inches and what do we have there 10 inches right on the money well I went looking for a panel and I found this I've trimmed this down it'll fit in the width I'm just gonna cut it to length and we'll put it in as a temporary panel for right now just so we have a finished door and that's how easy it is to make doors if you didn't follow every detail don't forget it'll be detailed in the article on woodwork web especially the measurements that sometimes the measurements confuse people but once you see it in writing it's pretty easy and that's just how easy it is to make doors on the router I'm called a cadet for woodwork web thanks for watching you

Channel: WoodWorkWeb

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Id: i2lYHvjHG_E

Length: 9min 33sec (573 seconds)

Published: Sat May 12 2018