I plan on building a set of kitchen cabinets this winter and the style that SWMBO has picked out calls for a flat panel in the doors as opposed to a raised panel. I will be building the cabinets using face-frame construction in cherry and my first thought here was to use cherry plywood. However, I scored quite a bit of cherry in a recent (gloat worthy) haul and would prefer to use solid wood. Most of the stock is about 5.5" wide and 15/16" thick. The bit set that I have for the rails and styles cuts a 1/4" groove to accept the panel. One thought I had was to glue-up a panel and plane it down to the necessary thickness but it feels very wasteful to plane ~11/16 off of a perfectly clear piece of FAS cherry to get a 1/4" thick panel. I then thought about resawing it and that I would be able to be less wasteful and get better grain matching etc. But I don't have a bandsaw and was wondering if anyone has experience resawing with a tablesaw. I figure that I could joine one face, set the blade height to just over 1/2 the width of the board and run it through, then flip it end-for-end and run it through again (keeping the jointed face against the fence for both cuts). I would set it up so that it made me feel safe doing it but I don't see how I cna use a splitter so that makes me a bit nervious.
Does this sound like a feasible (and safe) idea or should I abandon the idea or find someone with a bandsaw? I would certainly rather waste a truckload of FAS cherry planing it to 1/4" than get hit with a kickback so safety is my primary concern.
Thanks in advance for your time . . .
L