I am planning to make a couple of bathroom mirrors in the style of the
"lofty mirror"--google has lots of pics. It is basically a simple mirror
with a wood frame on the left and right, but nothing on the top or bottom.
These will get daily use and I prefer not to have a traditional (4 side)
frame for mirrors that will get everything from shaving foam to toothpaste
sprayed on them.

In a normal frame, the mirror cannot fall out or down, so I generally put
some silicone on the back of the frame to keep the mirror in place. But
given the lack of a mechanical linkage, will silicone be strong enough to
keep the mirror from sliding down or out of a frame without a bottom rail?
Should I use other stuff, like mirror-mastic or the like, perhaps troweled
on the back?

Any thoughts on the actual frame design? I am planning to have the mirror
simply drop into a shallow rabbet (not a frame/panel groove) on either stile
(8/4 stock), with the thinner connecting rails (4/4 stock), get hidden
behind the mirror. But I have never done this before and am not sure
whether the left/right edges of the mirror need to be hidden from view.

Cheers, Shawn

"Puckdropper" puckdropper(at)yahoo(dot)com wrote in message
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If the sides can extend past the mirror, a small shelf could be installed
in the rabbet (simply a place where the rabbet stops) that would allow
the mirror to slide down only so far. (A stop rabbet would also work.)
...

A slightly different style (stile too), but not a bad idea at all!! More
modernistic even. Thanks.

Cheers, Shawn

"RimaNeas" wrote in
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Any thoughts on the actual frame design? I am planning to have the
mirror simply drop into a shallow rabbet (not a frame/panel groove) on
either stile (8/4 stock), with the thinner connecting rails (4/4
stock), get hidden behind the mirror. But I have never done this
before and am not sure whether the left/right edges of the mirror need
to be hidden from view.

Cheers, Shawn


If the sides can extend past the mirror, a small shelf could be installed
in the rabbet (simply a place where the rabbet stops) that would allow
the mirror to slide down only so far. (A stop rabbet would also work.)

Puckdropper
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Make it to fit, don't make it fit.