Dowel-Mount Concealed Hinge for Full Overlay Doors

The Grass Nexis is a self-closing concealed cabinet hinge designed for full overlay doors on both face-frame and frameless cabinets, with a press-in dowel mount that suits CNC and production workflows.

Key Features

• Dowel mount cup presses into pre-bored dowel holes in the door, eliminating cup screws for faster CNC-line installs.
• 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.
• 110 degree opening angle delivers standard everyday access for kitchen and bath cabinet doors.
• Works on face-frame and frameless cabinets when paired with the appropriate Grass Nexis base plate, sold separately.
• Nickel finish on steel provides a clean, durable look suited to production and custom shop environments alike.

Built for Doors That Close on Their Own

This hinge handles the standard full overlay door, where the door face covers nearly the whole cabinet side and a narrow reveal shows at the edges. The straight arm carries the door in that position, and the self-close spring takes over as the door approaches the cabinet, pulling it shut from a few degrees out. That spring action keeps doors aligned and closed without a separate catch or magnet. The 35mm cup seats in the door, and the arm connects to a Grass Nexis base plate mounted to the cabinet, a separate purchase matched to your cabinet construction and desired door position.

Dowel Mounting in a Production Context

Where standard cup-mount hinges use two screws to fix the cup into the door bore, this hinge carries pre-attached dowels that press directly into the door's dowel holes. In a CNC-bored cabinet door, that means no cup-screw step at the bench: the cup registers in position and holds mechanically. The hinge is plated steel in a nickel finish, sized for standard doors in the 16 to 22mm range. The 48mm boring pattern governs the hole spacing in the door, so confirm that your boring matches before ordering as a drop-in replacement. Plates for this hinge are Grass Nexis plates; plates from other brands will not connect to this hinge body.

Who Reaches for This Hinge

Cabinet shops running CNC lines are the natural home for a dowel-mount hinge, since the bored door comes off the machine ready for press-in assembly with no additional drilling at the bench. It also suits builders and remodelers specifying a self-close hinge for face-frame or frameless boxes, where doors that close on their own simplify the finished install. For projects where a cushioned, damped close is the goal rather than a spring pull, the soft-close version of this series is the better fit. For doors thicker than about 22mm, a thick-door hinge is the correct choice.

Common Questions

Press-In Speed, Reliable Close

For shops that bore their doors on a CNC and want full overlay doors that close without a hand, this Grass Nexis dowel-mount hinge covers the install from press-in cup to self-closing arm.