This is a technique that you might try which will yield a raised panel without doing a panel glue up, and saving some cost of solid wood.
Using 3/4" hardwood plywood, glue solid stock on all four edges, mitering the corners, and leveling the stock to the panel. The edges can then be profiled.
There are a few advantages to this process. You will have no endgrain to deal with. The width of the solid stock can be varied to allow as much "flat" before the profile. The solid stock can be the same specie, or a different one, which may add to the design character of the panel. The frame can be done like a R&S (cope and stick), or just mitered, and rabbeted. The panel can be glued into a rabbet, or into the groove provided by the bit set. Gluing in the panel will keep the frame together, and make for a very rigid panel, with no "loose panel" or movement issues.
In the fabrication of the commercial bar below, I made the bar front panels this way. I'd like to thank Bruce Cohen for helping me with this picture.
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Using 3/4" hardwood plywood, glue solid stock on all four edges, mitering the corners, and leveling the stock to the panel. The edges can then be profiled.
There are a few advantages to this process. You will have no endgrain to deal with. The width of the solid stock can be varied to allow as much "flat" before the profile. The solid stock can be the same specie, or a different one, which may add to the design character of the panel. The frame can be done like a R&S (cope and stick), or just mitered, and rabbeted. The panel can be glued into a rabbet, or into the groove provided by the bit set. Gluing in the panel will keep the frame together, and make for a very rigid panel, with no "loose panel" or movement issues.
In the fabrication of the commercial bar below, I made the bar front panels this way. I'd like to thank Bruce Cohen for helping me with this picture.
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