Well, I finally completed my doors for my current project and it was a chore.  First it is the first attempt at a glass door with muntins and my material is figured cherry.   I purchased this set (over a year ago) at the saintlouis ww show after seeing it demonstrated. It includes three bits. 

The Rail & stile bits and a slot cutter for cutting a slot should you decide to use the rubber glass retaining material.  I will note that that only is viable if you are doing a single pane glass if you have muntins (dividers) you cant use this which ended up to be my case.  I’ll say it took some time  and wasted stock and perseverance but I am very pleased with the end result.  You can purchase a DVD which I did to provide guidance. 

It helped and showed the use of the jigs which are required.   I will give you a warning though, I did not pay attention and see that the limitations on the set is 7/8″ thick stock.  My doors are 1″ thick that presented a challenge that I engineered my way through but probably added 25% to the time to complete the doors.  Secondly, there is a limit to how narrow you can make the muntins even with the jigs.  The ogee fins extend 7/16″ on each side and for my purpose the center bar was 1/4″ wide (I needed to cover 1″ thick shelves). 

 I planed down some poplar stock while doing the cherry to practice with.  I figured I’d learn on that.  That kinda worked.  The poplar you could cut in a single pass and be smooth as silk.  The cherry would have issues of tear out on the edge on one side.  Why? because one side would be with the grain and when you flip it around and run the other side it would be against the grain.  I had to plane down some more stock. My solution was to creep up by making 1/16″ passes and problem was solved. 

I set up an assembly line and would cut a door at a time inching closer and closer.  I have an Incra ls20 fence so it was very easy and repeatable.  Something else, end grain first on one end and leave length long to custom fit the door.  I did my sides and top and bottom and glued up as if it were to be a single pane door.  I then measured and snuck up on the width a bit at a time because it has to be dead on.  I used my Incra miter gauge for that worked great.  I also used a story stick from scrap and would cut the scrap place it in the door and when perfect I would cut  the real thing. Once the long grain was done and the one engrain done and the final length done, I ran that final end with the endgrain jig through the router and bam done! It fit like a glove. 

 I did the pieces that cover the shelves first then repeated the same steps to divide equally the door pane in have.  I made two story sticks for each pane divider so when I glued each pane in they were perfectly aligned with the one above  I placed the finished pices in (very snug) close to there final location and put a bit of glue and tapped into place light clamp and they came out great.  I treated each unit individually measuring twice and it took time, but they came out perfect.  If you are of by as much as a fraction it will show and the muntin will need to be cut again! Don’t ask me how I know this.  I’m putting whats called seed glass in with wood retainers.  The cuts were great and smooth and I’d recommend this set to anyone.  Like I said my first stab at this and the bit set performed fantastic. Here are some pics of the bits router, jigs and last the doors.