Nickel Full Overlay Concealed Hinge With Dowel Mounting for CNC Production

This Blum CLIP top hinge brings full overlay coverage and self-close action to face-frame and frameless cabinets, with dowel-mount cup attachment designed for CNC and production boring environments.

Key Features

• Dowel-mount cup presses into pre-bored dowel holes for a screw-free door attachment suited to CNC production workflows.
• Self-close spring pulls the door shut automatically over the last few degrees of travel.
• Full overlay straight arm positions the door to cover nearly the entire cabinet side, leaving a narrow reveal.
• 107 degree opening angle gives a slightly wider swing than the standard 110 degree hinge.
• Three-way adjustment moves the hung door up to 2mm in height, 2mm side to side, and 3mm forward or 2mm back after installation.
• Nickel finish on plated steel coordinates with brushed hardware across the cabinet run.

A Production-Ready Cup Mount in a Full Overlay Hinge

Most concealed hinges attach to the door with screws through the cup flange. This hinge uses dowel mounting instead: pre-attached dowels press into bored holes in the door face, locking the cup without cup screws. That single difference makes it the right call for CNC-drilled doors coming off a line where screw-driving at the cup is a bottleneck. The 35mm cup bores into the door at a 45mm hole spacing, and the arm then clips to a Blum base plate mounted to the cabinet side. The base plate is a separate purchase, matched to your cabinet type and the overlay position you need.

Steel Build With a Nickel Finish

The hinge body is plated steel in a nickel finish, a neutral tone that blends into the cabinet interior and sits alongside brushed nickel pulls, knobs, or other hardware on the same run. The self-close spring is built into the hinge, so the door pulls itself shut from a few degrees open. This is a spring-pull close, not a damped soft-close: the door moves quickly and closes firmly, which is the right behavior for production cabinets where a cushioned close is not specified. For projects where a quiet, slow final close is the requirement, the BLUMOTION soft-close version of this series addresses that need.

Where This Hinge Fits the Job

Cabinet shops running CNC-bored doors at volume are the primary audience here. The dowel mount eliminates the cup-screw step at the door, which matters when a run of doors moves through a dedicated boring station before assembly. The hinge works on both frameless and face-frame cabinets, so a single SKU covers mixed box types on the same project. The 107 degree opening suits standard door access; for applications where the door needs to open just a few degrees wider, this angle provides a bit more clearance than a 105 degree hinge while keeping the arm geometry within the standard full overlay configuration. For doors outside the standard 16 to 22mm thickness range, confirm the cup depth fits before ordering.

Common Questions

Production Speed Without Sacrificing Fit

When CNC boring is already in the workflow, dowel-mount hinges in a nickel finish let the door go straight from the boring station to assembly, with full overlay coverage and reliable self-close on every cabinet in the run.