5 piece door files

[cncwind]

I am currently planning a kitchen remodel that will be involving the creation of 24 doors and 16 drawer fronts, I am currently using a conventional router table but want to utilize my Probotix meteor with 2.2 kw spindle to automate the process.

I have viewed a few jigs and setups doing this, does anyone have a file that I can use to create one of my own?

Thanks

[ger21]

A regular router table would probably be a lot faster.

[4DThinker]

I'm with ger21. Unless you want to do some 3D carving on the doors/drawer fronts there are several other more conventional shop tools designed to handle rectangular/straight edged parts more efficiently.

4D

[dealguy11]

If you're doing real 5-piece doors, then I'm with the prior 2 posters as well.

If you're doing a painted kitchen and are up for a different option, then you can make doors that look like 5-piece doors and finish very nicely from either refined MDF or Medex (NOT the stuff you get at the box stores). Plum Creek makes a nice MDF that's pretty solid all the way through. We make doors from 1-inch Medex day in day out for a high-end shop in NJ that puts them in $100k kitchens.

If you go that route, you can make the profiles using the moulding toolpath, which can give you nice sharp corners if you use a 1/8" ballnose. For the raised panel sections you can use much larger bits because the corners on the panels are outside corners and come out sharp with larger bits. Unfortunately I can't give you any of my profiles because they're specific to my customers, but they're not very hard to make.

Why MDF - after all it's not "real" wood? Higher-quality MDF doesn't warp, and the seams on the corners don't sag or come apart over time. Medex is water resistant (but not water-proof - you can't leave it sitting in water) and it machines very nicely with a nice, non-fuzzy finish. If you prime it well with a non-water based paint (remember, it resists water) it finishes beautifully. It's also pretty hard and surprisingly hard to break. Finally, it's a lot less expensive than hardwood.

Just a thought.

[dealguy11]

I should also mention that you don't have to use the moulding toolpath. You can make some pretty convincing looking doors using v-bits, end mills, and other shaped cutters with profile toolpaths. V-bits are nice because they can leave an extremely sharp corner if you use the sharp inside corner option for the profile toolpath.