Welcome to my first video! I wanted to show you the machine we built to make 1 piece MDF cabinet doors. I searched the internet for days looking for an easy and affordable way to build cabinet doors, unfortunately, there was really nothing like this that I could find. So I looked at many home built CNC machines as well as router sleds and came up with a mix of both.
So what is this thing? I call it my manual CNC machine but in reality, it is not a CNC…I guess its more of a extreme router sled…maybe you guys can help me define it and give it a name.
The “router” is a 4kw ER20 CNC air cooled spindle powered by a 5.5kw Variable Frequency Drive 220v Phase Converter. Both pieces cost just under $500.00 CAD. I used a square body spindle instead of the round one for ease of mounting. Next is the linear rails and bearing blocks that move the spindle from side to side, front to back and up and down (X Y Z Axis). These cost me roughly around $500.00 as well. On the table, I purchased some T-track and accessories for homemade hold downs and stops. The last few things that I purchased was some self adhesive tape measures, a couple of pieces of angle iron, some soft close cabinet door bumpers and misc. machine screws and nits and bolts. All the wood was just basically scraps I had laying around the shop. I don’t have an exact price, but it was under $1500.00 in total.
If there is enough interest, I may do a more detailed video. Trust me, this thing was not that hard to make and it is so easy to use…I can make the doors and drawer fronts for an average size kitchen in less than an hour. You could also set this thing up to flatten live edge slabs if that’s what your into. You can make the table as big or as small as you want…I made mine 30″ deep and 102″ long to suit my needs.
The build time for this was a couple of weekends. Because I didn’t have nothing else out there to go by, I was basically winging it and I couldn’t be happier with the outcome.
Thank you for watching and I would love to hear your comments/suggestions
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