Cutting Cabinet Doors Table Saw

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.

Cutting cabinet doors table saw.

Material from a home center will be fine. Hold the saw in place at the edge of the door with the front edge of the blade on the cutting line. I used the table saw instead for all of the joinery. 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.

Use a circular saw with guide track to make cutting plywood quick and easy. If you have some experience using a table saw then building your own cabinet doors won t be too difficult. Position the square or straight edge against the base plate of the saw and parallel with the. The stiles and rails cut to length and ready to be grooved.

By the diy experts of the family handyman magazine. Cut your center panel out of 1 2 plywood. And you don t need any specially prepared wood. Run the ends of the rails cross cutting through the blade.

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

If you ve got a table saw here s a new way to put it to work. 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. I frequently use poplar shown here for doors that will be painted.

Set the height to 1 4 inch.