[Jeff Thies]

I'll need to make new wall cabinets (maple 3/4" ply, about 3' 6"
tall). I'm thinking about hinges.

perhaps:

http://www.cabinetparts.com/c/hinges...eries-200-120/

It seems to me that there are a few things to consider:

What tools are required to mount them?

How accurate do you have to be? I'd like to keep the doors close
together with little space between them. I note some are adjustable.

Something better, cheaper?

Jeff

[Jeff Thies]

On 8/20/2010 7:39 AM, dadiOH wrote:
dadiOH wrote:
Jeff Thies wrote:
I'll need to make new wall cabinets (maple 3/4" ply, about 3' 6"
tall). I'm thinking about hinges.

perhaps:

http://www.cabinetparts.com/c/hinges...eries-200-120/

It seems to me that there are a few things to consider:

What tools are required to mount them?

How accurate do you have to be? I'd like to keep the doors close
together with little space between them. I note some are adjustable.

Something better, cheaper?

Better is subjective.

Your choice of hinges depends a lot on how you are making the
cabinets and doors...face frame or no?...overlay doors?...partial
inset doors?...inset doors?


Frameless with overlay doors.

IMO, the easiest is face frame with 1/2" overlay doors. This is a
hinge I like for that...inexpensive ($1.00 or so each) and easy to
use. Two per door is adequate for your size door. No tools
necessary to mount other than a screwdriver and something to make a
pilot hole.
http://www.amerock.com/products/item...rap-12-overlay

A variation...
http://www.amerock.com/products/item...ble-12-overlay


That takes me in a direction I had not thought of. I'm thinking those
need a face frame?

I know little about hinges but had been impressed by the european hinges
I saw at IKEA. Those mount with the pocket and with a hole bored though
the edge. That I didn't think I could do accurately. (not the 35mm but
the edge bore) It looks to now that only IKEA mounts hinges that way.

I don't mind harder, or the cost. Just so I don't screw it up... At
the moment I am having a hard time wrapping my mind around setting reveal.

I should be able to cut the cabinets and doors accurately. I have a
radial arm and in a distant life I made a number of speaker cabinets.
Beyond that I see that cabinetry is a whole new world.

Jeff

[Ed Pawlowski[_2_]]

"dadiOH" wrote
I have a friend who had a custom woodshop. When he bought a house, he had
his guys build new kitchen cabinets and had them use the European hinges.
He spent the next 25 years cursing them because they continuously got out
of alignment..

Personally, I've never used them, know nothing about them, prefer face
frames.

Rather than curse them for 25 years, he should have tried replacing them
with a better quality brand. I've had some at home for the past 10 years,
at work for the past 15 years. Never a problem.