Doors with mid rail

BillHightower · Post by **BillHightower** » Tue, Feb 27 2007, 4:56PM

I need to create some doors with multiple panels in them. Am I correct that I should use two doors and reduce the upper rail and lower rail of two doors and place them with no gap between them in order to create this effect? Am I on the right track or is there another way to do this. I have seen Kerry's doors but I don't know how he creates them.

Thanks in advance. You guys are great.

Bill Hightower

Michael S Murray · Post by **Michael S Murray** » Tue, Feb 27 2007, 7:02PM

Hi Bill, I beleive you can just use two doors, merge them and then save as a assembly. That is if your just looking for a presentation.
I beleive you could just also use one large door and use a display board to create the mid rail. it would not have the profile but probably close enough unless you zoomed right in on it. If you were lucky enough to be using shaker style, you could also build a face frame cabinet, delete everything but the face frame and back, move the back forward to the face frame and walla a resizable door.
Hope something of this helps,

Michael S Murray · Post by **Michael S Murray** » Tue, Feb 27 2007, 7:23PM

Hi Bill,
i had test my own theory on the face frame cabinet, it works! See attachment..

BillHightower · Post by **BillHightower** » Tue, Feb 27 2007, 9:32PM

Mike,

Thanks for the input. The two door approach works since I want to use divided lites in the upper 1/3 of the door.

Bill