Making Glass Cupboard Doors

Drop the glass plexi in place on top.

Making glass cupboard doors.

The glass guru offers a wide variety of frosted patterned obscure and textured glass products to give your glass cabinet doors the perfect blend of style functionality durability and affordability. A pattern bit has a top mounted bearing. Most production made cabinet doors are assembled with cope and stick joinery. Then add 1 2 in the length of two tenons see figure a in project pdf s below.

Who knows what the difference is. A sticking bit forms a decorative profile around the inside edges of the frame and a coping bit creates a mirror image profile on the ends of the rails plus a stub tenon to lock the rails and stiles together. Take the height of the door you want and add 1 8 in. Cabinet doors can make or break the look of your kitchen or bathroom cabinets and the longevity of the cabinets.

Clamp router guides to the back side of the door. How to make the diy glass cabinet doors. Make sure to allow space for the hinges and some room between the doors if they are stacked on top of each other. Subtract this number from the width of the door you want.

After working through design details and layout there seems to be this process at the very end. The secret lies in the workmanship and quality of materials used to make cabinet doors. Rout sturdy door joinery and glass retainers in one operation. The vertical pieces should go the full length of the opening and the horizontal pieces will sit inside.

Add a bead of silicone along the inside edge on the front side of the cabinet door. We have a large number of samples available to view and choose from. Figuring the length of the rails is more complicated. Run a pattern bit along the guides to cut away the inside lips.

You can make the same joinery in your shop with a router table and a matched set of router bits. Lower the router bit and cut away the shoulders on the back side of an arched upper rail to create a square recess for the glass cabinet doors. For glass you will need a silicone for glass as the one i purchased specified plastic. First measure the total width of two stiles placed side by side.

Over the years i have found that people will start their kitchen design journey with a more adventurous spirit than where they end up.