Making Glass Cupboard Doors

One of these ways you can add a little seasoning to your kitchen design is with creative glass cabinet doors.

Making glass cupboard doors.

Measure to determine the exterior dimensions of the cabinet doors. 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. Choose which door to make.

Take the height of the door you want and add 1 8 in. 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. 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.

Figuring the length of the rails is more complicated. You can make the same joinery in your shop with a router table and a matched set of router bits. Most production made cabinet doors are assembled with cope and stick joinery. Clamp router guides to the back side of the door.

For glass you will need a silicone for glass as the one i purchased specified plastic. Subtract this number from the width of the door you want. Then add 1 2 in the length of two tenons see figure a in project pdf s below. Who knows what the difference is.

We have a large number of samples available to view and choose from. The secret lies in the workmanship and quality of materials used to make cabinet doors. The vertical pieces should go the full length of the opening and the horizontal pieces will sit inside. Run a pattern bit along the guides to cut away the inside lips.

Make sure to allow space for the hinges and some room between the doors if they are stacked on top of each other. First measure the total width of two stiles placed side by side. Rout sturdy door joinery and glass retainers in one operation. 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.

How to make the diy glass cabinet doors.