Building Door Panels

Building an interior door.

Building door panels.

Interior doors are generally 80 inches tall and 1 3 8 inches thick exterior doors are generally thicker. Pull out the hand planes and. Rails and stiles are generally made out of the same materials but panels can vary and even include glass or screens. Interior doors are usually 1 3 8 thick.

How to build your own car door panels step 1. Remove the clamps. This is part one of hagan street rods modular door panel system. I own a 6 jointer but the rails on this door are 8.

Part one the frame clamps clamps and more clamps. The simplest method is to use the miter gauge that came with your table saw. Attach the smooth side of the traced piece of hardboard to the smooth side of the other piece with clamps. Attach a straight 24 in long hardwood 1 3 for more accuracy and to avoid splintering out the end of the cut.

Set an old door panel on the hardboard and trace its. Place one 48 by 48 by 1 8 inch hardboard on a worktable. The rails connect the two stiles together at a few points and the panels fill in the gaps. However with a little instruction and a broad selection of car interior upholstery parts the task is made easier than you might think.

A table saw makes that easy. To build a square door the stiles and rails must all be exactly the same length with perfectly square ends. I build mine by laminating two pieces of 3 4.