Start by building a door for a 36 inch opening with typical 4 by 96 inch tongue and groove wood.
Making tongue and groove cabinet doors.
Building shaker style cabinet doors with tongue groove joinery.
You only need a table saw and a few other supplies to build these doors but it s really important that the stock you use for the door frames is flat and straight.
The 61 502 tongue and groove router bit sets creates a 1 4 wide groove for the door panel.
I m going to show you how to build one of my cabinet doors so you can take the idea and run with it for your cabinet projects.
Kate and i bought our new house in february 2018 and spent the entire month of march renovating it.
No jigs or dado stack required.
In that video which you can see here i primarily used a table saw to cut the tongue and groove joints for the doors.
When you learn how to make cabinet doors you will have mastered one of the basic skills in woodworking.
While perfectly functional the kitchen needed the most attention because it was flat out ugly unless you re a fan of pickle green counter tops and mustard.
Doors come in many variations some have molded edges arched tops or raised solid wood panels but to get started it s a good idea to start with a basic design.
The tongue and groove plywood panel door.
They were actually my first real attempt at tongue and groove joinery and they.
Phase 2 was to make replacement cabinet doors for her kitchen and laundry area.
If you re interested in making a traditional shaker style door with a raised panel turned to the inside of the cabinet the 61 502 tongue and groove router bit set is what you need.
And those doors were built with tongue and groove construction using my table saw.
In this instructable i ll show you a foolproof method for how to make tongue and groove shaker cabinet doors on a table saw using a regular blade.
How to make tongue groove cabinet doors video transcript.
Build the door as a blank and then cut it down on a table saw to make it fit the opening.
Shaker doors tongue groove.
This bit also allows for a miniscule amount extra room in the groove for panel movement.
Even the center panel was machined using a table saw.
In this new version i m only using a router table for the tongue and groove joints and the center panel.