Where can i buy glass doors?

[Brian Hale]

Where can i order glass doors (tempered?) in custom sizes? Need them for an up coming project but i haven't worked out the final size with the customer...

Thanks
Brian

[Jamie Buxton]

Where can i order glass doors (tempered?) in custom sizes? Need them for an up coming project but i haven't worked out the final size with the customer...

Thanks
Brian


Go to your local glass shop -- Yellow Pages. If they're like mine, they take the order from you and send it off to another place which has the equipment to cut, edge-polish, and temper the doors.

[Brian Hale]

Thanks Jamie, i'll have to look into that!

I've been looking for some place online but no glory so far.....

Brian

[Jamie Buxton]

Thanks Jamie, i'll have to look into that!

I've been looking for some place online but no glory so far.....

Brian

I think that crating and shipping costs make glass a local business.

Well, there is an outfit which advertises in national woodworking mags: WGB Glass. They're in Michigan. They don't have a web site, but will send you a catalog if you call: 800.288.6854. I've gone so far as to get the catalog, but never have bought from them.

[Byron Trantham]

Brain, one word of advice. When you order your tempered door glass tell them "no logo." Glass comes with a logo of the company that made the glass. The very first door panel I had made had "LOF" in one of the corners. I think LOF stands for Libey Owens Ford. Anyway it can be real dissapointing to have that happen. :mad:

[John Christiansen]

Brain, one word of advice. When you order your tempered door glass tell them "no logo." Glass comes with a logo of the company that made the glass. The very first door panel I had made had "LOF" in one of the corners. I think LOF stands for Libey Owens Ford. Anyway it can be real dissapointing to have that happen. :mad:


It can also be very important to have that "logo". I build display cabinets for schools and it is required that the glass have identification on it, to prove that it is either tempered or laminated safety glasss depending on the application.

By the way Brian, I also always use laminated safety glass in vertical situations and tempered glass in horizontal applications. Tempered glass resist breakage better but when it breaks, it is into thousands of tiny shards. When the laminated glass breaks it stays together and the young person that walked into it usually just bounces off and turns red from embarrasment, not laceration.

Talk to your glass distributor and follow his advise.