If you ve put off building cabinet doors because you think you need all kinds of special tooling and expensive router bits try your hand at making these great looking doors styled after shaker cabinet doors using nothing more than your table saw.
Making shaker doors table saw.
You ll have to remove the guard from your saw for several steps.
However you could make the grooves and tenons using a router table just as easily.
Cost per door is around 20 you can get about 6 center panels from each sheet of plywood.
Not only are they stylish and easy to make but the tongue and groove joint will ensure they hold up to the daily abuse in the kitchen.
I started off by taking all of the cabinet doors off and measuring them to see how big i needed to make the shaker cabinet doors.
Creating a simple panel and frame cabinet door is rather simple and the best part is that you can do it on either a router or table saw.
In as little as a weekend you could completely transform your kitchen by making your own shaker doors.
How to make shaker cabinet doors project directions.
The simplest form of the frame and panel door is the shaker style door known for its no frills look clean and simple.
To build a square door the stiles and rails must all be exactly the same length with perfectly square ends.
This article will cover how to build shaker style cabinet doors with a basic table saw.
The wood can be any that is available.
Although you can create the grooves for tenons using a router saw as well.
While there are many options for door making the standard is frame and panel doors.
For this article i m going to show you how to build shaker style cabinet doors using a table saw.
To build frame.
My shaker style cabinet doors needed to be 13 5 inches wide by 39 5 inches tall.
A table saw makes that easy.
The most attractive aspect of shaker doors is the ease with which they can be made.
You can use either solid wood or plywood in oak or birch.
Making simple frame and panel cabinet doors is fairly easy and the thing i like best is you can do this either on the table saw or a router table.
Measuring for new shaker style cabinet doors.