Raised Panel Doors On Table Saw
Making raised panel doors with a table saw video transcript.
Raised panel doors on table saw. Make raised panel doors and drawer faces with your table saw before you begin you need to calculate the door and drawer face sizes. 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. How to make your own feather boards. As you see only the door moves along the fence and support angle.
Here is a very short video of cutting a raised panel on the table saw using 2 high flexible springs no low feather board and a blade tilted left. The toggle is located 3 up from the bottom of the jig. Learn how to make a raised panel jig for your tablesaw. My sled is made from 3 4 baltic birch plywood.
The cleat that holds the toggle clamp is 2 1 4 wide. All it takes is a simple shop made sled. If you re making a double door cabinet using hidden european style hidden hinges add 1 to the door opening width and divide by two. You also can make raised panel doors with a portable tablesaw.
Jigs doors and drawers tablesaws or woodworking videos. The table saw provides an easy way for you to make raised panel doors. To make these raised frame and panels you will need a door making cutter set. For standard rectangular raised panels all you really need is the saw blades you already own and you don t need a big table saw either.
The safe and simple thin strip ripper. The photo below isn t a raised panel but it give you a sense of the door parts. It s 20 long 13 tall and 6 wide. Your choice of cutters will depend on whether you own a router table or a shaper.
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. An eighth inch rabbet on the back side can be done just as quick. 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. Make jigs for template routing.