Making Glass Doors

Sand and finish the doors and retainer strips to match the cabinet.

Making glass doors.

Make a jig for a half lap joint. However even with these benefits there are a number of considerations to make before committing to a full glass entry door. Cut enough retainer strip stock to cover the perimeter of all the glass pieces. 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.

Place a sheet of glass in each door. Please be sure to subscribe for more diy tiny hous. You can make the same joinery in your shop with a router table and a matched set of router bits. You can make beautiful flush corners with a dado head cutter on your table saw.

Glue these beside the stiles and rails. That way all of the pieces will fit together easily with no need to adjust their length. See how simple it is to install a friction fit pivot hinge onto a glass door panel. In effect glass doors give you many of the benefits of an open air entrance without these deterrents.

The other option is european style hinges made for glass doors. In this video i show you a simple quick and affordable way to build yourself a unique door for about 50. Rout sturdy door joinery and glass retainers in one operation. For starters think about the level of privacy your neighborhood affords.

Most production made cabinet doors are assembled with cope and stick joinery. One way to make a frameless glass cabinet door is to install pivot hinges made for glass doors. Now that you ve got the technique down for creating half lap joinery try your hand at using half lap joints to create the frame for a glass panel door or mirror. 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. In total you ll need 8 33 25 in 84 5 cm pieces and 8 16 in 41 cm pieces 4 for each side of the door. Cut the glass pieces or have them cut for you so they are 1 8 shorter than the rabbeted frame opening in each direction.