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.

How to make a glass display door.

You can make beautiful flush corners with a dado head cutter on your table saw. 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. See how simple it is to install a friction fit pivot hinge onto a glass door panel. Form and function all wrapped up together.

One way to make a frameless glass cabinet door is to install pivot hinges made for glass doors. 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. Make a jig for a half lap joint. They can cut the glass to fit the opening.

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. How to make the door for the small display cabinet.