Nickel Blum CLIP Self-Close Hinge for Full Overlay Doors, Dowel Mount

This Blum CLIP hinge hangs full overlay doors on frameless and face-frame cabinets, using pre-mounted dowels for a fast, screw-free door installation in CNC and production environments. It closes with a self-close spring and opens to 100 degrees.

Key Features

• Self-close spring pulls the door shut over the final degrees of travel automatically.
• Full overlay straight arm positions the door to cover nearly the entire cabinet side, leaving a narrow reveal.
• 100 degree opening angle provides clear everyday access to the cabinet interior.
• Dowel mount presses the hinge cup into pre-bored dowel holes in the door with no cup screws required.
• Three-way adjustment dials height, side, and depth after hanging to bring doors into even alignment.
• Fits frameless and face-frame cabinets for broad application across kitchen, bath, and casework projects.

Where Dowel Mount Earns Its Keep

The dowel mount is the production installer's choice. Instead of driving cup screws at every door, the hinge's pre-attached 8mm dowels press into bored holes in the door back, dropping install time on a multi-door run. The 35mm cup bores into the door in the standard position, and the arm then clips to a Blum base plate mounted on the cabinet side, ordered separately. Because the arm is clip-on, individual doors can be removed and rehung without tools, which is useful during a site-built installation or when a door needs adjustment after delivery.

The self-close spring takes over from there, drawing the door closed from a few degrees open. No damper is built in, so the door closes with a firm, positive contact. If the project calls for a quiet, cushioned close instead, the BLUMOTION soft-close version of this hinge is the one to specify.

Steel Construction in a Nickel Finish

The hinge body and arm are plated steel finished in nickel. The three-way adjustment is what keeps a run of doors looking right over time: small turns of the cam screws correct the door position in height, side, and depth as the cabinet settles into the space. Nickel coordinates naturally with satin and brushed metal hardware across the same project, making it a practical finish choice when the visible hardware has already been specified in that family.

Right Fit for Production and Multi-Door Work

This hinge suits cabinet shops running CNC lines with pre-bored doors, contractors installing production cabinets, and any project where throughput at the hinge matters. Both frameless and face-frame boxes are supported, so the same hinge carries across a mixed job. For doors in the standard 16 to 22mm thickness range, this is the geometry to reach for. Doors thicker than 22mm need a thick-door hinge with the appropriate cup depth, and this hinge is for indoor cabinetry.

A matching Blum base plate is required to complete the install and is sold separately. Plates are Blum-specific; a plate from another brand will not connect to this arm.

Common Questions

Production-Ready Doors That Close on Their Own

Specify this hinge when dowel-bored doors need to hang fast, close reliably, and stay square across a full run of full overlay cabinets.