HANGING AROUND - made easier

Did someone call? Good blog David .The only thing I think might be better is if you used purple heart for all your jigs like kent. LOL

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

David, very informative as well as useful info. Thanks for putting this one on.

-- Donnie-- listen to the wood.

good point jim

as long as it lasts
then i can quit altogether
and watch TV

-- david - only thru kindness can this world be whole . If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. Dan Quayle

I think this is about my 20th “thank you” to you David.
I think you are #1 on my favorited stuff list.

-- Eric

Very clever sensei, and useful.

-- david roberts, spinning Tales from Topographic Oceans, no, really.

Great Blog, I’ve never tried it with a jig. I’ve always marked the new door off of the old door. Cut inside the lines and hand fit each hinge. I think your system is way faster.

-- Dan - Valparaiso, Indiana, "A smart man changes his mind, a fool never does."

dan
when i make custom doors
and jambs
i see if one i have comes close
and use it

saves me lot’s of time for sure

-- david - only thru kindness can this world be whole . If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. Dan Quayle

Now we know why there has to be an apprenticeship program in woodworking. I can only imagine what it would be like to get to spend a year working with you. Definitely a young woodworkers dream. Thank you for the info. Rand

Thanks David, wish I’d meet you long ago. I already have the Porter Cable plastic jigs. You take three of them and attach them to a strip of plywood in the proper spacing and wa-la. I’ll make one of your kind the next time I do big doors with four hinges. The pattern bit that comes in the Porter Cable jig is cool, it cuts a square corner with that round bit. It has a funny shape to it and you set the hinge jig square side inside and 1/8” big. You flip the adjustment over for round hinge or square and set to the proper hinge length.
And while we’re talking doors David, I have a small Stanley vise that kinda looks like one of those hobby vises that rotates and can be clipped on a 2x, sawhorse, deck rail etc. I like it for holding the door so I can work on it. I got it at Big Lots for $5. If you see one, snag it.

-- Darrell, making more sawdust than I know what to do with

Good timing David, I have to build new screen doors this spring for
the front and back door of the new place. We have all these great
brand new windows but no screened doors to let the fresh air in better!

I’ve never made a door before- or installed one.

bob

-- Bob Kenosha Wi.

I could have used this blog 3 days ago….. :) But it’s nice to have it today.

-- Homer : "Oh, and how is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain."

Smart, Fast, and Accurate…
That New Shop you’re building… You should give some thought into making it into “The Patron’s School of Advanced Wood Working and Carpentry”
If you need a cafeteria cook, let me know!! :)

-- Mike in Concord, NH---Unpleasant tasks are simply worthy challenges to improve skills.

David I use a similar method I bought a Trend hinge jig & found it very limited it would only cut fixed spacings & it doesnt work in rebated door casings. So I started making my own like your small versions to do one hinge at a time . Just one addition if I may? a lot of the old properties I work in (around 19th century) are in poor repair with hinge recesses that look like they were carved out with a screwdriver. So I made a version with a bigger pocket & cut out the old hinge recess & fill it with a dutchman (I carry a supply of milled stock with me to fit my jig) then just cut the new hinge to current standard into new wood & it always makes a neat job

-- God created wood that we may create. Trevor East Yorkshire UK

good solution to the old loose screws
and torn parts trevor i’ll have to do something similar
job site ‘dutchmen’ take to much time
. michael you will have first choice
i used to be a dishwasher in greasy spoons
we could help each other
and have more time in the shop
. bob and kelly i need to build a door soon
will do a full tutorial about it
stay tuned
. darrel i’ve used various jigs too
but the price for some rigs
is just to much for the ocasional door work i do
and some are set within standards
so doing off size and custom
is just to hard for them

-- david - only thru kindness can this world be whole . If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. Dan Quayle

I don’t think I’ll change any doors after all, unless David is coming north for a few days ;-))

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence Wake Up America!! Please read; http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/26-0