Making Sliding Cupboard Doors

Instead of using a plastic or metal door track you can make your own wooden sliding cabinet door track.

Making sliding cupboard doors.

In addition it will enhance the quality and beauty of the overall piece. This month steve johnson starts a new project in the down to earth workshop. Here we ll show you how to make an entire roll out pantry. Extra tall so you can trim their ends after gluing.

Feel free to ask me any questions and com. For each one you ll need two stiles the vertical parts two rails the horizontal parts and one panel. The hardware consists of two heavy duty bottom mounted slides and one center mounted top slide that together can support 130 lbs. In this video i demonstrated how to make tracks for a sliding wooden door and a technique to modify your saw blade.

A wooden sliding door is an attractive feature to add to a cabinet project. The secret lies in the workmanship and quality of materials used to make cabinet doors. The wooden track will make the entire project more cohesive. Other than the visual appeal cabinet doors don t serve any function besides keeping some dust out of the cabinet.

Most cabinet manufacturers now include roll out shelves in their base cabinets. So they haven t been a high priority on my mile long to do list. Since i m finally investing some real thought time and energy into revamping my shop i finally built some sliding cabinet doors for my workshop. Sliding bypass doors are a great replacement option for swinging doors on cabin.

But if you don t have this convenience this project will one up those shelves. Buying a new sliding cabinet door can be very expensive. Make a list of the parts of your diy shaker cabinet doors before you begin. Figuring the length of the stiles is easy.

A great feature to have on a cabinet is a sliding cabinet door. Choose which door to make.