subject: Choose Right Router Bit For Different Task [print this page] Stile and Rail Bits: These are used in frame and panel construction, primarily for constructing frame members of cabinet and passage doors. These bits cut a decorative profile and a panel slot into the edge of door frame stock, and also a corresponding cut into the end of the material where the frame's "rail" (horizontal member) meets the profiled edge of the frame's "stile" (vertical member).