How Do You Make A Cabinet Door?
Your kitchen needs a facelift. But rather than replace all the kitchen cabinets, you can opt to simply refinish or replace only the cabinet doors. If you’re feeling particularly ambitious, build the cabinet doors yourself. There are many styles of cabinet doors to choose from. However, for the do-it-yourselfer, a simple panel cabinet door is easiest to build. Follow these instructions and open the door to a new kitchen. Step 1 Cut the door stiles, or sides, equal to the height of the door and the rails, top and bottom, equal to the door width. Using a dado head in a table saw, adjust the height to a third of the thickness of the wood used for the stiles and rails. Step 2 Attach an auxiliary fence to the table saw, and feed a rail face down into the blades. Turn over, and feed rail into blades again. Step 3 Set dado head of table saw at 1/2 inch. Turn rail on its side, and run into blades. Turn over and repeat. You now have a “tenon cheek” on each end of the rail. Repeat with the other
