Help!!! Find this raised panel bit

[chris fullen]

Hey guys,

Got a problem. Matching a door panel with a customer's existing kitchen cabinet raised panel. The doors we're outsourced and the deal with the previous contractor went sour before me so I have no way of figuring out where the panel came from. What websites do you try to find odd router bit profiles???

[Alan Bienlein]

I picture of the profile might help a little.

[Mike Heidrick]

Welcome to the creek.

Sure it was a router bit? Guessing shaper cutter or CNC if it was outsourced.

Many places can custom grind knives for shape cutters.


Most major mfgs have profile pics of the cutters in their tooling description.

Try freeborn or freud to see some good ideas.

Show them to us and we can help.

[chris fullen]

all over it

[Dave Zellers]

Come on Alan, you're supposed to solve this with the clues he gives us.

:D

I came up empty on oddrouterbitprofiles.com

[Van Huskey]

My bet is you will find the shape in either the Freeborn or Freud shaper cutter catalog.

[chris fullen]

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First one is my best sketch to scale free hand. Second is actual picture.

[Peter Quinn]

Is it possible they came from a door specialist like conestoga or similar? if so they stock a lot of profiles I've never seen in a stock catalogue of tooling or in a router bit collection. Most bit makers stock the popular patterns, classics, in basic well proportioned sizes. The choices are some what limited. Shapers, perhaps more choices. Can you make a quick profile drawing, might make it easier for the tooling junkies here to help you, tough to guess what you are looking at.

[chris fullen]

The more I look at it. It possibly could be a ogee bead bit ran twice. Does that make sense from the profile picture?

[chris fullen]

I think I can do it with a Whiteside #5964. One pass gives me the top bead, then move out to make the second pass to make the lower raised profile.

[Carl Beckett]

Chris, its no fun if you post the problem, and then post the solution to your own problem...... ;)

Just razzing you - I think you are on the right path to consider multiple passes, sometimes with different cutters even. There is no rule that says the entire profile has to be made with a single pass, and there are some bits out there that have misc shapes on them just for this purpose (no idea what they are called, but they exist)

[David Kumm]

the most cost effective answer might be to send the profile to a grinder and have a couple of custom knives made for an insert cutter. Also look at euro designs like the Felder catalog as the profile looks a little like some of their designs. The euro stuff is expensive compared to insert knives though. Dave

[chris fullen]

Now the post that accepts the bearing is keeping me from plunging deep enough onto the panel. I have the profile, need more of a lip to fit inside my door rails