Cabinet Door Hinge Drilling Jig

Before you mount the jig to the cabinet slide a penny between the jig and the face frame to give the door a proper reveal.

Cabinet door hinge drilling jig.

Make cabinet door installation easy. The concealed hinge jig allows you to drill cup holes for concealed cabinet door hinges sometimes called euro hinges using just a drill. The concealed hinge jig allows you to drill holes for concealed cabinet door hinges using just a drill. Drilling with the concealed hinge jig.

The concealed hinge jig takes the guesswork out of installing cabinet doors using concealed hinges. Use brass screws that come with the hinge only after drilling pilot holes and applying wax to the screws to prevent them from binding and breaking. And it can be set up to drill small pilot holes for hinges held in place with screws. A cabinet hardware jig is an adjustable tool designed to allow accurate repeated drilling of cabinet handle and knob holes.

The wooden part that is attached on the cabinet door with a clamp and acts as a guide for bit and the hinge boring. A small to carry jig was all i wanted. A jig is commonly designed in a t shape with two intersecting rulers that allow for fast and infinite hole layouts on doors and drawers. But there are times where i wanted to install that kind of hinges on cabinet doors and i was away from my shop so i didn t have access to a drill press.

More about the jig here. This jig didn t take. This economical easy to use jig ensures accurate hinge alignment so you can install doors that fit great and work well. The jig has indexed settings for eight hinge cup tabs tab is the term commonly used for the distance from the edge of the cup hole to the edge of the door.

I m glad i did a few tests first because drilling into that beautiful new door was a little nerve wracking. With the concealed hinge jig set to 6mm i was ready to drill the holes in my cabinet doors. You really only get one shot. The jig positions an included carbide tipped bit exactly at the proper position and offset and drills to the perfect depth every time thanks to adept stop collar.

So this jig is consisted by two parts. 35mm cup and two 7 64 pilot hole drill bits are included. The jig has a carbide tipped bit which positions and offsets the drill to the precise depth guided the depth stop collar.