A Nickel-Finish Dowel-Mount Hinge Built for Full Overlay Doors

This Blum CLIP top hinge brings BLUMOTION soft-close to full overlay doors on frameless and face-frame cabinets, using a press-in dowel mount that suits CNC-bored production and precision shop work.

Key Features

• BLUMOTION soft-close damps the door over the final degrees of closing so it settles quietly every time.
• Full overlay straight arm positions the door to cover nearly the entire cabinet side, leaving a narrow reveal.
• 110 degree opening angle delivers the standard everyday swing for full cabinet access.
• Dowel mount cup presses into pre-bored 8mm dowel holes for fast, screw-free door installation.
• Three-way adjustment moves the door in height, side, and depth to dial in an even reveal after hanging.
• Nickel finish on plated steel pairs cleanly with brushed and satin hardware across kitchen and bath cabinetry.

Where the Dowel Mount Earns Its Place

The dowel cup is the detail that sets this hinge apart from the screw-on and INSERTA versions of the same CLIP top platform. Instead of driving cup screws into the door, the hinge presses its pre-mounted dowels into bored holes in the back of the door panel. On a CNC line or in a shop that bores doors in batches, that single motion cuts door-side installation time noticeably across a full kitchen run. The 35mm cup bores to a 13mm depth, and the arm then clips to a Blum base plate mounted to the cabinet. That plate is a separate purchase matched to your cabinet construction and the overlay you need.

Finish, Build, and Long-Term Performance

The hinge is steel with a nickel finish, a neutral tone that reads as refined without committing to a warm or cool palette. It coordinates with satin nickel pulls, brushed chrome bar handles, and similar mid-tone hardware families. The BLUMOTION damper is where the long-term value accumulates: it absorbs the energy at close on every cycle, which protects both the door edge and the cabinet face over years of daily use. The three-way adjustment, plus or minus 2mm in height and side and plus 3mm or minus 2mm in depth, keeps doors sitting square as the cabinets settle and seasonal movement works through the box.

The Right Shop and the Right Job

This hinge suits cabinet shops running CNC-bored door panels where press-in dowel cups fit the workflow, and installers building frameless or face-frame boxes where a nickel finish ties the hardware together. It works across both cabinet types, so the same hinge runs a frameless Euro kitchen and a face-frame traditional build without a separate SKU. For doors in the standard 16 to 22mm thickness range, this is a direct specification. Doors over 22mm need a thick-door hinge instead. If your cabinet panels are not pre-bored for dowels, the screw-on or INSERTA cup versions of this hinge cover the same full overlay, soft-close spec in a different door-side mount.

Common Questions

Production-Ready Soft-Close in a Finish That Holds Up

Specify this hinge when a dowel-bore workflow, a full overlay geometry, and BLUMOTION quiet-close all need to land in one part, finished in nickel.