Cabinet Door Hinge Drilling Jig

The concealed hinge jig allows you to drill holes for concealed cabinet door hinges using just a drill.

Cabinet door hinge drilling jig.

Make cabinet door installation easy. A cabinet hardware jig is an adjustable tool designed to allow accurate repeated drilling of cabinet handle and knob holes. Today we take a look at how to choose concealed cabinet hinges and we make a hinge jig or template to aid in the installation process. You really only get one shot.

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. The jig has a carbide tipped bit which positions and offsets the drill to the precise depth guided the depth stop collar. A small to carry jig was all i wanted. Drilling with the concealed hinge jig.

This economical easy to use jig ensures accurate hinge alignment so you can install doors that fit great and work well. Get drill press accuracy with any hand drill. 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. 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. 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. 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. 35mm cup and two 7 64 pilot hole drill bits are included.

The concealed hinge jig allows you to drill cup holes for concealed cabinet door hinges sometimes called euro hinges using just a drill. 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. Plus the concealed hinge jig works with an ordinary drill and the included carbide tipped. And it can be set up to drill small pilot holes for hinges held in place with screws.

More about the jig here. The concealed hinge jig takes the guesswork out of installing cabinet doors using concealed hinges. So this jig is consisted by two parts.