Making Raised Panel Cabinet Doors On A Table Saw

You also can make raised panel doors with a portable tablesaw.

Making raised panel cabinet doors on a table saw.

Figuring the length of the stiles is easy. Take the height of the door you want and add 1 8 in. Making raised panel doors on the table saw general woodworking or more correctly cope and stick raised panel doors. This is a techniquei ve seen done by others on youtube many times before and i wanted to try it myself as well.

In this video i m going to show you how to make raised panels like this using a table saw in a standard combination blade. With the panel in the sled and the sled against the fence position the rip fence so the blade will cut outside the line. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel. Making raised panel doors with a table saw video transcript.

Figuring the length of the rails is more complicated. Cabinet shops that turn out raised panel doors rely on heavy duty shapers and cutters or at the very least a router table setup that includes a range of expensive bits. Making raised panel on the table saw. The doors i build this way often are referred to as shaker style.

I did this originally long ago back when i couldn t afford to buy the bit set or the heavier router needed to use them that is normally used to make these doors. If you have a right tilt saw you ll need to do this operation with the rip fence to the left of the blade.