I'm building a cabinet and want to have a pair of sliding doors on it. For reasons I won't bother going into, I'm making said doors out of the cabinet material alone (ie. no hardware). Suffice to point out this is shop storage, not fine furniture. I'd like some thoughts on which of two designs I should use. And I apologize in advance for inaccurate or inadequate terminology.
Option 1: rout a groove/dado into the frame of the cabinet (top and bottom) and cut a tenon along the entire top and bottom of the doors slightly than more narrow the groove (or add a strip of hardwood slightly more narrow than the groove/dado onto the bottom of the door) to slide in the groove.
Option 2: cut a groove in the top and bottom of the door edges and tack strip of hardwood to the top and bottom of the cabinet frame to slide into the grooves in the door edges.
I'm leaving out a fair amount of detail for simplicity sake. I'm just wondering if either of these methods seems better than the other in function (not necessarily ease of manufacture).
Cheers.