Published On: April 13th, 2023Categories: Woodworking News

Build a frame-and-panel door with hand tools - Part 2

Synopsis: Having created the frame in Part 1, Bill Pavlak now focuses on making the raised panel. There’s no need for a specialty hand plane here; a rabbet plane provides an easy, effective, and efficient way to do this work. In addition to tool choices, design considerations, wood movement, and grain direction come into play.


You don’t need all the tools that you think you do. I wish that wasn’t one of the toughest lessons in woodworking, but for a lot of us, it is.

When I first started making furniture, I found something irresistible about raised-panel doors. Iconic without being irrelevant, intimidating without seeming unapproachable, they captured my attention, and I wanted to make some as soon as possible. In particular, I wanted to create the raised and fielded panel with a panel-raising plane. Maybe I just wanted a fancy new tool. Well, I definitely wanted that, but I lived…

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