Cutting Cabinet Doors Table Saw

Tongue and groove next set the table saw fence to 1 2 inch over the blade.

Cutting cabinet doors table saw.

Hold the saw in place at the edge of the door with the front edge of the blade on the cutting line. Cut your center panel out of 1 2 plywood. If you have some experience using a table saw then building your own cabinet doors won t be too difficult. 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. Cut your rails and styles to length. 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. 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.

Material from a home center will be fine. I used the table saw instead for all of the joinery. 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 stiles and rails cut to length and ready to be grooved. I frequently use poplar shown here for doors that will be painted. 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. 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.

Use a circular saw with guide track to make cutting plywood quick and easy. For best results the wood you use to build doors should be free of knots warps twists and checks. Set the height to 1 4 inch. Run the ends of the rails cross cutting through the blade.

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.