Drawer Front question

[wwf9984]

I'm new to woodworking, so this might be an obvious question.

I am planning to use an Ogee Set to make the cabinet door panel. What would you usually use for the drawer front?

Would the same bit for the raising panel do?

or there's a better way to do this.

[Thylacene]

The last time I did a kitchen was many years ago. To maintain some symmetry, the stiles for the drawers matched the doors, and the rails were half as thick, after being cut, where each rail made a top and bottom rail for a drawer. Panels were then cut to fit. Hope that makes sense. Have also seen two drawer units done with matching upper and lower rails to cupboard door rails and a split rail in the center (lower of upper drawer and upper of lower drawer.

[wwf9984]

so the drawer front was like a cabinet door. but ithout the raising panel?

[elanjacobs]

There are a number of ways you can do it, it just depends what look you want, but usually you would still have the raised panel in it.

You can see here what Thylacene means: http://www.eclectic-ware.com/woodmon...0fc-c4-118.JPG
The horizontal rails are half the size of the vertical rails

I have also seen it done where a single door-size panel is cut up horizontally for the drawer fronts so it looks like one door when they're all closed.

[wwf9984]

so it's basically a cabinet door, but with excess width....

[elanjacobs]

Yep. Just a short, wide door.

[Thylacene]

Yes the drawer fronts have panels, the ones we did were done as a four panel door and then cut into drawer faces to keep symmetry and the end result looked like the photo posted earlier, same applies for 2 and three drawer setups, one panel per drawer front.

[Rod Gilbert]

If it is a bank of draws don't forget to make the overall door taller to allow for the saw cuts when you cut it into separate draws.
Regards Rod.

[wwf9984]

thanks

[ian]

I'm new to woodworking, so this might be an obvious question.

I am planning to use an Ogee Set to make the cabinet door panel. What would you usually use for the drawer front?

Would the same bit for the raising panel do?

or there's a better way to do this.

it depends on how deep the drawers are.

Shallow drawers will look best if you go with plain solid fronts
deeper drawers - say 2 or 3 add up to the height of a door -- can look nice if each drawer front is its own frame and panel.

IMO building a full size door and then slicing it into your drawers fronts looks off