Cutting Cabinet Doors Table Saw

These doors were going to be pretty plain and simple so there wasn t a need to use the router.

Cutting cabinet doors table saw.

Cut your center panel out of 1 2 plywood. Cut your rails and styles to length. And you don t need any specially prepared wood. Cut center panel to the final height of the cabinet door minus the rails width x2 and the width of the cabinet door minus the stiles width x2 step 1.

The width depends on whether it s a single or double door cabinet with a single door spanning the full width of the box and double doors only half the width. The best part is that you can build cabinet doors with just a table saw and a couple saw blades a standard blade and a dado blade. Run the ends of the rails cross cutting through the blade. Tongue and groove next set the table saw fence to 1 2 inch over the blade.

When building cabinet doors for a face frame cabinet the doors need to be 1 wider and 1 taller than the opening in the face. Hold the saw in place at the edge of the door with the front edge of the blade on the cutting line. Set the height to 1 4 inch. By the diy experts of the family handyman magazine.

Position the square or straight edge against the base plate of the saw and parallel with the. I used the table saw instead for all of the joinery. Material from a home center will be fine. If you ve got a table saw here s a new way to put it to work.

If you have some experience using a table saw then building your own cabinet doors won t be too difficult. For best results the wood you use to build doors should be free of knots warps twists and checks. You don t need any special jigs just your saw large or small a miter gauge and a sharp blade. The stiles and rails cut to length and ready to be grooved.

Use a circular saw with guide track to make cutting plywood quick and easy.