Nickel Concealed Hinge for CNC and Production Cabinet Builds

This Blum CLIP top BLUMOTION hinge brings full overlay doors and soft-close performance to cabinets built for dowel-hole installation, covering both frameless and face-frame construction in a nickel finish.

Key Features

• BLUMOTION soft-close damps the door through the final closing arc so it settles quietly without impact.
• Full overlay straight arm positions the door to cover nearly the entire cabinet side, leaving only a narrow reveal.
• Dowel mount presses pre-mounted dowels into bored door holes for fast, screw-free cup attachment in CNC and production environments.
• 110 degree opening delivers the standard everyday swing for full access to cabinet contents.
• Three-way adjustment lets height, side, and depth be dialed in after the door is hung.
• Works on frameless and face-frame cabinets so one hinge spec covers mixed cabinet types across a project.

Built for Shops That Bore Before They Build

The dowel mount is the right connection for production and CNC shops where cup holes and dowel holes are bored as part of the panel workflow, not drilled on site. The pre-mounted dowels press into the door's bored dowel holes without cup screws, which removes a step from the hanging process and keeps line speed up. Once the door is ready, the CLIP top arm snaps onto the base plate on the cabinet and releases just as cleanly if a door needs to come off later.

The hinge bores into a 35mm cup hole with 45mm hole spacing. The base plate mounts to the cabinet and is sold separately. Match a Blum plate to your cabinet construction and the door position you need. For face-frame boxes, a face-frame plate handles the stile; for frameless, a wing plate or INSERTA plate fits the side panel.

Steel Build in a Nickel Finish

The hinge body is plated steel. The nickel finish coordinates with chrome, brushed nickel, and similar hardware across the same cabinet run, which matters on face-frame installs where the hinge arm may be visible at an open door. BLUMOTION's damping is built into the hinge, so there is no separate damper to source or clip on.

The Installer and the Cabinet Shop

This hinge fits two situations well. In a production shop, dowel mounting supports a workflow where panels are CNC-bored in batches and hanging is a downstream step with no loose screws. On a job site, a contractor finishing frameless or face-frame boxes gets the same result: a full overlay door that closes quietly and adjusts easily when the cabinets settle. Standard doors in the 16 to 22mm thickness range are the right fit here. For doors heavier than the run calls for, check the Blum load table for the correct hinge count.

Common Questions

Quiet Closes, Straight Reveals, and a Finish That Coordinates

When the workflow calls for dowel-bored doors and the spec calls for nickel hardware, this hinge delivers soft-close performance and full overlay geometry without adding steps to the install.