Making Cabinet Doors With Table Saw

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.

Making cabinet doors with table saw. It s usually easiest to show someone so here is a video i put together. Ordinarily this will be the width of a table saw blade. When making cabinet doors for european style cabinets the doors will be the same height as the cabinet box. These doors were going to be pretty plain and simple so there wasn t a need to use the router.

And you don t need any specially prepared wood. 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. Choose which door to make. If you have some experience using a table saw then building your own cabinet doors won t be too difficult.

If you ve got a table saw here s a new way to put it to work. I used the table saw instead for all of the joinery. Cabinet doors can make or break the look of your kitchen or bathroom cabinets and the longevity of the cabinets. Material from a home center will be fine.

The secret lies in the workmanship and quality of materials used to make cabinet doors. 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. A basic woodworking shop is all you need to build strong beautiful c. Use a speed square to ensure your table saw blade is square to the table.

You don t need any special jigs just your saw large or small a miter gauge and a sharp blade. How to build cabinet doors without a router. A demonstration start to finish of how to make cabinet doors primarily on a table saw. Plan to use 1 3.