Making Glass Cupboard Doors

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.

Making glass cupboard doors.

One of these ways you can add a little seasoning to your kitchen design is with creative glass cabinet doors. The vertical pieces should go the full length of the opening and the horizontal pieces will sit inside. 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. Who knows what the difference is.

A pattern bit has a top mounted bearing. Over the years i have found that people will start their kitchen design journey with a more adventurous spirit than where they end up. Make sure to allow space for the hinges and some room between the doors if they are stacked on top of each other. Add a bead of silicone along the inside edge on the front side of the cabinet door.

Most production made cabinet doors are assembled with cope and stick joinery. Cabinet doors can make or break the look of your kitchen or bathroom cabinets and the longevity of the cabinets. After working through design details and layout there seems to be this process at the very end. Choose which door to make.

For glass you will need a silicone for glass as the one i purchased specified plastic. You can make the same joinery in your shop with a router table and a matched set of router bits. Clamp router guides to the back side of the door. Take the height of the door you want and add 1 8 in.

How to make the diy glass cabinet doors. Subtract this number from the width of the door you want. Drop the glass plexi in place on top. Then add 1 2 in the length of two tenons see figure a in project pdf s below.

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. Run a pattern bit along the guides to cut away the inside lips. We have a large number of samples available to view and choose from. Rout sturdy door joinery and glass retainers in one operation.

First measure the total width of two stiles placed side by side.