Making Cabinet Doors Plywood

Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin.

Making cabinet doors plywood.

Glue up shaker cabinet door. Shows how to router the edges of the door to give it a custom detail. For flatness and stability mdf core material is a better choice. Extra tall so you can trim their ends after gluing.

Start by ripping two side pieces to the. X research source cut the door panel insert slightly less than the size you need to allow for wood expansion and contraction. You could also use dowels if you d rather that s typically what i do lately. I wanted the entire cabinet carcass to be hidden and basically let the doors steal the show.

Now i did full overlay doors. Here s a classic way to put together a strong good looking door without making any unsightly holes. They can be finished with paint stain followed by polyurethane or any other finish you deem appropriate. While slab style cabinet doors can be built from plywood or melamine with the edges banded it is relatively simple to build slab doors from solid wood.

If you are making flat panel doors you will need to cut your panels out of thick cabinet grade plywood or if they are painted thick luan plywood. Here i have two options. Warping plywood cabinet doors cabinetmakers agree that plywood is not suitable for making doors because of its tendency to warp. Plywood thicknesses vary though so make certain your material thickness measures a true 3 4 or adjust your part dimensions to achieve the final cabinet width.

A flat door panel will usually be made from 25 inch 6 mm plywood the same wood type as the rest of the cabinet. For the doors i measured my cabinet box and cut the hickory panels smaller on in both directions than the front of the box. That s why i chose a specialty plywood option and went with hickory. This video shows how to build cabinet doors using 3 4 cabinet grade plywood.

Columbia s appalachian traditions line answers the need for the edge glued lumber or plank matched look perfectly. For a base cabinet less than 4 wide you can cut all the parts except the back and toekick from one 3 4 4 8 sheet of plywood or mdf. That is the question. It s a good idea to make your doors 1 8 in.

To glue place the plywood in the grooves of the sides and liberally squirt glue along the inside of the top and bottom where the top and bottom 1x3s will go. The overall size of the panels needs to be i taller and 1 wider than the opening created by the frame.