Making Cabinet Doors With Table Saw

Begin assembly of the door.

Making cabinet doors with table saw.

A basic woodworking shop is all you need to build strong beautiful c. And you don t need any specially prepared wood. 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.

Use a speed square to ensure your table saw blade is square to the table. When making cabinet doors for european style cabinets the doors will be the same height as the cabinet box. Choose which door to make. 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. Not having a router does not mean you cannot build amazing cabinet doors. These doors were going to be pretty plain and simple so there wasn t a need to use the router. The cabinet doors on the mission style open shelf bathroom vanity were built with just a saw and kreg jig.

A demonstration start to finish of how to make cabinet doors primarily on a table saw. How to build cabinet doors without a router. 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. Ordinarily this will be the width of a table saw blade.

It s usually easiest to show someone so here is a video i put together. 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 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.