How To Set A Door Hinge With A Router

To cut door hinges with a chisel place your hinge on top of the door to make an outline with a pencil.

How to set a door hinge with a router. Remove the remaining material in the mortise with repeated front to back or right to left cuts to clear out all of the waste. Leah demonstrates how to use a router and jig to cut perfect door hinge mortises quickly and easily. How to make door hinge mortises step one. After reading the full article we hope you can now cut door hinges without a router easily.

Set the router onto the jig making sure the bit is not contacting the wood. Get the door hinge jig shown in this video through our l. 6 beginner ways to use a woodworking router any woodworker is well acquainted with the router s myriad uses. Fitting hinges to a door using a router to recess the hinges.

Set the depth of router bit. Turn on the router and rout the mortise starting along the perimeter and moving in a clockwise motion. Using a chisel and hammer make grooves along the traced outline and do the same on the outside to measure the depth. Don t forget to factor in the extra depth of the steel template which is raised above the door.