Cutting Cabinet Doors Table Saw

If you have some experience using a table saw then building your own cabinet doors won t be too difficult.

Cutting cabinet doors table saw.

By the diy experts of the family handyman magazine. For best results the wood you use to build doors should be free of knots warps twists and checks. Position the square or straight edge against the base plate of the saw and parallel with the. Use a circular saw with guide track to make cutting plywood quick and easy.

These doors were going to be pretty plain and simple so there wasn t a need to use the router. Whether you make a single door or many using this technique you ll need a stacked dado set in addition to a finish cutting combination blade for your table saw. A router in a router table or a shaper is probably the most common tool for cutting cabinet door joinery as you can achieve a wide variety of profiles but it can also get a little expensive. 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. Run the ends of the rails cross cutting through the blade. Material from a home center will be fine. 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.

Set the height to 1 4 inch. Cut your rails and styles to length. Tongue and groove next set the table saw fence to 1 2 inch over the blade. The stiles and rails cut to length and ready to be grooved.

If you ve got a table saw here s a new way to put it to work. You don t need any special jigs just your saw large or small a miter gauge and a sharp blade. And you don t need any specially prepared wood. 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.

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.