Cabinet Door Hinge Drilling Jig

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

Cabinet door hinge drilling jig.

A cabinet hardware jig is an adjustable tool designed to allow accurate repeated drilling of cabinet handle and knob holes. Make cabinet door installation easy. So this jig is consisted by two parts. The wooden part that is attached on the cabinet door with a clamp and acts as a guide for bit and the hinge boring.

More about the jig here. With the concealed hinge jig set to 6mm i was ready to drill the holes in my cabinet doors. 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.

Get drill press accuracy with any hand drill. Drilling with the concealed hinge jig. A small to carry jig was all i wanted. Plus the concealed hinge jig works with an ordinary drill and the included carbide tipped.

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. The concealed hinge jig allows you to drill holes for concealed cabinet door hinges using just a drill. 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. 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. And it can be set up to drill small pilot holes for hinges held in place with screws. The concealed hinge jig takes the guesswork out of installing cabinet doors using concealed hinges. I m glad i did a few tests first because drilling into that beautiful new door was a little nerve wracking.

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. 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. The jig has a carbide tipped bit which positions and offsets the drill to the precise depth guided the depth stop collar.