Workshop Interior Doors #8: hanging the doors
Finally hanging the doors is the next step in this long process. I stand my doors in the opening they will go and put them on a flat scrap of wood, just enough to give the clearance under the door that I want. I use about 1/8” – 3/16” up off the floor. Then I mark the top and bottom of the hinge recesses I’ve already cut out on the doors. I tape a hinge onto the door frame at the correct spot and trace around it with a pencil: Then I carefully cut around the pencil marks, to a depth of about 1/16”, with a sharp knife: As I showed in the previous post, my router bit was set to the thickness of the hinge: Then, I routered out the space ...
