How To Make Glass Cabinet Doors
These cabinet doors are held together with just glue and they look amazing.
How to make glass cabinet doors. Examine the back side of each door. Add fabric to glass doors with velcro great way to add a pop of color. To make beautiful cabinet doors with no visible joinery you need to router the rails to fit inside the stiles. It a super simple diy and can be changed out easily and often.
The frame is made using butt joints it is not common to produce doorframes using 45 degree angles in the manner of a picture frame. Step 1 choose which door to make. A dowel joint figure 5. The vertical pieces should go the full length of the opening and the horizontal pieces will sit inside.
Use mdf medium density fiberboard on a painted or a covered surface for a wood grain look 1 x research sourcestep 3 use solid wood for a door when you make a panel. Cut the glass pieces or have them cut for you so they are 1 8 shorter than the rabbeted frame opening in each direction. There are two basic types of cabinet doors slab and flat panel most often chosen. 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.
Feb 1 2017 learn how to cover glass cabinet doors with fabric with this easy tutorial. How to make the diy glass cabinet doors measure to determine the exterior dimensions of the cabinet doors. Cut enough retainer strip stock to cover the perimeter of all the glass pieces. To get started on glass cabinet doors remove the doors from the cabinets and remove all hardware from the doors.
You should consider the need for speed of construction durability ease of cleanup and maintenance step 2 pick the correct material to fit your doors. Most slab doors are made of plywood. Most production made cabinet doors are assembled with cope and stick joinery. Make sure to allow space for the hinges and some room between the doors if they are stacked on top of each other.
I have been making a lot of cabinet doors recently and in this video i show you my method for how to make shaker cabinet doors. If so gouge away wood with a utility knife to expose the nail heads and pull the nails with a pliers. This week i made a glass cabinet doors for my miter saw station. You might find a few tiny nails where the panel meets the frame.
Sand and finish the doors and retainer strips to match the cabinet. Please subscribe to my channel. The butt joints for the frame can be made in 4 different methods. Place a sheet of glass in each door.
The cabinet glass door is made up of two major pieces the frame and the glass itself.