How To Route For Door Hinges

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How to route for door hinges.

Many doors will not need a hinge router while other doors only have a slight marking for the hinges and others have nothing at all. Rout the mortise by guiding the machine clockwise around the template. For the novice to moderate user a router makes installing the hinges much easier and more accurate. Using a mortising template route matching mortises for the hinges on the door and jamb.

Install a bearing guided router bit into the router and adjust the cutting depth to the thickness of the hinges. Leah demonstrates how to use a router and jig to cut perfect door hinge mortises quickly and easily. The process of using a router on a hinge is the same whether it s being done on a cabinet hinge or a full sized door hinge. After your three door frame pieces are cut to the correct size prime and paint them.

In this video home renovation brothers dave and rich show you how to cut out a door hinge. I am using a ryobi door routering jig. It s much easier to do now before the hinges are screwed in and the whole thing is attached to the door. Begin with the mortises on the door then the mortises on.

How to router out the opening for a door hinge on a brand new door. Package comes with router bit an. Very easy to do. Many professional door hangers won t even use a router for door hinges but instead trust the handy wood chisel which is always a part of their tool bags.