Making Shaker Cabinet Doors With A Table Saw

Euro or cup hinges are the easiest most forgiving means of hanging your new cabinet doors.

Making shaker cabinet doors with a table saw.

Shaker style doors add a simple and clean look to your cabinets and add a level of true craftsmanship to your cabinet project. From each end using the table saw. These doors were going to be pretty plain and simple so there wasn t a need to use the router. Although you can create the grooves for tenons using a router saw as well.

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. You can use either solid wood or plywood in oak or birch. However you could make the grooves and tenons using a router table just as easily. The wood can be any that is available.

This article will cover how to build shaker style cabinet doors with a basic table saw. Building shaker cabinet doors is only part of the story. To even up the ends of the door cut 1 16 in. Other than the hinges there is no metal just wood and glue.

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. Shaker doors get their name from the center part of the door being made from 1 4 inch plywood. To create the panel and frame cabinet doors you are going to need to create two rails two stiles and a single panel for each door. You also have to hang them.

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 most attractive aspect of shaker doors is the ease with which they can be made. I used the table saw instead for all of the joinery. When making cabinet doors for european style cabinets the doors will be the same height as the cabinet box.

To build frame.