How To Cut Groove For Door Hinge

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How to cut groove for door hinge.

How to cut the perfect hinge in minutes. To carve out the mortise place a chisel into the outline grooves and tap the tool with a hammer. You can spend money on fancy templates and custom tools or you can just lay the hinge where it s going to be and trace it with a. But you may still need a chisel or knife to cut out the corners.

But you might want to consider using a door hinge jig and a router instead. Yes i ve hung more doors than you can imagine and i use several different templates but for a couple of quickies that s the way i would do it. Place the tip of a chisel vertically in. Set the door on its side with the inside edge of the door where the hinges will go facing up against a stable.

Using a utility knife cut vertically down into the door following the tracing and cutting to a depth of 3 16 inch. You can cut the hinges with a hammer and chisel certainly. If your frame already has hinge mortises stand or lay the door inside the frame as if it. It will save you loads of time particularly if you need to hang more than one door.

Using a utility knife trace along the outline to create small groves then make a cut on the front or back side of the door indicating the mortise s depth. Trace around the hinge with a pencil. Transfer the hinge locations from the door frame. You can do the hinges radius with a spade bit and chisel the rest.

It is a lot quicker and more precise. Then use the same method to create angled grooves along the inside of the hinge spot. 1 2 radius use a 1 2 spade bit a 1 4 away from the radius and drill to depth of hinge usually about a 1 8 then chisel.