Making Glass Cupboard Doors

Measure to determine the exterior dimensions of the cabinet doors.

Making glass cupboard doors.

Rout sturdy door joinery and glass retainers in one operation. A pattern bit has a top mounted bearing. Cabinet doors can make or break the look of your kitchen or bathroom cabinets and the longevity of the cabinets. The secret lies in the workmanship and quality of materials used to make cabinet doors.

Subtract this number from the width of the door you want. Choose which door to make. 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. After working through design details and layout there seems to be this process at the very end.

Clamp router guides to the back side of the door. One of these ways you can add a little seasoning to your kitchen design is with creative 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. For glass you will need a silicone for glass as the one i purchased specified plastic.

Figuring the length of the rails is more complicated. We have a large number of samples available to view and choose from. Take the height of the door you want and add 1 8 in. Drop the glass plexi in place on top.

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. 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. Who knows what the difference is.

Over the years i have found that people will start their kitchen design journey with a more adventurous spirit than where they end up. Run a pattern bit along the guides to cut away the inside lips. First measure the total width of two stiles placed side by side. Then add 1 2 in the length of two tenons see figure a in project pdf s below.

How to make the diy glass cabinet doors.