How To Mortise Round Door Hinges

First use a hinge to set the router bit s cutting depth photo below.

How to mortise round door hinges.

This is the perfect tutorial showing you how to cut in the perfect door hinge. Use a bevel edge chisel and hammer to square the corners of the mortise if the faceplate has square corners. Fit the latch and faceplate into the door. Repeat the cutting process if the mortise isn t deep enough.

Then align the support arm s bottom edge with the bottom edge of the door clamp it in place and rout the mortise as shown above. Finally with the mortises roughed out square up their corners with a chisel. Chisel the scored outline hold a sharp chisel a 1 inch or 1 1 4 inch chisel works best vertically with the. Repeat at the top edge of the door.

Score around the hinge position the hinge on the edge of the door in the desired location and hold it firmly in. A standard operation for anyone who retrofits doors into existing frames or must resize a door or opening to the available space door hinge installations wi. We show you the tools to use and the. Leah demonstrates how to use a router and jig to cut perfect door hinge mortises quickly and easily.

Cut lines in. How to mortise a door hinge by hand step 1. Create the mortise using a router attachment remove the wood between the pencil lines drawn on the door edge to create a mortise for the faceplate. To rout mating mortises in the cabinet clamp the jig s support arm to the face frame s stile see photo below.