How To Make A Glass Display Door

Make a jig for a half lap joint.

How to make a glass display door.

If the glass area of your cabinet or cabinet door has an arched top make a cardboard template and take it to the glass store. They can cut the glass to fit the opening. 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. You can make beautiful flush corners with a dado head cutter on your table saw.

I use my circular saw miter jig to miter cut the rails and the stiles of the door and i miter joint them. To install the doors i simply pushed the top edge into the top groove and then dropped it into the groove below making sure that each door sat into its own channel. My doors were 6mm laminated glass taken from another cabinet but if you want to have some made simply measure the width of the opening divide by 2 and then add 30mm and for. The glass front doors will keep out the dust plus the glass retains that open look and makes the shelves look like a pretty display case.

See how simple it is to install a friction fit pivot hinge onto a glass door panel. One way to make a frameless glass cabinet door is to install pivot hinges made for glass doors. Form and function all wrapped up together.