Make a Quick Door-Buck
Make simple and effective door bucks for holding everything steady while cutting hinge mortises.
I needed to hold a number of doors on edge while I cut hinge mortises with a jig-guided router. To hold the doors steady, I made a pair of these simple door bucks out of scrap. Each consists of a 2×4 base with ¾-in.-plywood triangular gussets screwed to the sides, as shown in the drawing above. The edges of the gussets are what hold the door vertical, so I added some stick-on felt ribbon to the edges to keep them from marring the finish on the doors.
For the ⅜-in.-thick doors that I was working on, I placed the gussets 17⁄16-in. apart to allow for the felt. To use the bucks, I set them on the floor at an angle to open up the spaces between the gussets. This allows the door easy entry to each buck. Then I push each buck with my foot into its clamping position, cinching the door.
— David Epstein, West Hartford, CT
From Fine Homebuilding magazine
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