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1. FHB Editor
   JFink | Dec 08, 2005 05:17pm | #1

   Stay tuned for our next issue...we show a jig for hanging cabinet doors in the one of the articles.

   If your need is more immediate (isn't it always?) - try Kreg, I think they have some cabinet hardware jigs.

   Justin Fink - FHB Editorial

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   PaulBinCT | Dec 08, 2005 05:28pm | #2

   If you're just worried about the pulls, HD sells a plexiglass jig (made I think by Liberty Hardware) that may do the job.  For hinge jigs it will depend on the hinge style you're using.  For Euro style cup hinges Blum and Kreg both make jigs.  For pulls, I often make a jig from a box top (shoe boxes work great) where I open up two adjacent sides of the box so that the remaining closed corner orients the box top on the door corner and then I punch two small holes where I want the screw holes to fall.

   HTH

   PaulB

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   Sancho | Dec 08, 2005 06:22pm | #3

   I use a cheap jig from rocklers. I dont buy much from them but they do have a few jigs that work pretty good and are inexpensive. Ill try to find a link. 

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   highfigh | Dec 08, 2005 06:52pm | #4

   If you posted another thread about this, I referred to a Blum jig, available at HD and other stores. It has one jig for the hinges and one for pulls and knobs. For pulls and knobs, you could drill without removing the doors if you can keep the drill and door stable enough.

   "I cut this piece four times and it's still too short."
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   Sphere | Dec 08, 2005 10:29pm | #5

   For knobs and handles an easy way is a pc of 1/2 ply about 4" x6" ..add L shaped "fences" on each face ( this is so it it is flippable for L and R doors...) hot melt glue or brads will hold 1/2x1/2 rips.

   Drill the first door freehand and THEN use the door as a jig to locate the hole in the jig, I always drill a 3/16th hole for the 8-32 knob and handle screws.

   I hope that is clear enough..oh, the fences register on the door egde and bottom or top depending if it is a wall cab or floor cab.

   For drawers I make a similar jig that centers the pulls, but I don't ALWAYS make the handle the same distance from the top edge of a drawer front..just center the plate sideways and clamp it at the elevation you desire on the drawer face.

   edit: NO do NOT remove the doors for drilling, WAY too easy to screw up the handle / pull location...have them hanging in PLACE.

    

   
   

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   Edited 12/8/2005 2:31 pm ET by Sphere

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   blueshound | Dec 08, 2005 11:48pm | #6

   Best Jig i have ever used VERY VERY durable comes from Sommerfelds tools for wood.

   adjustable metal guiides for drill bit.  1-888-228-9268 Called the Easy Mark Here is a link

   http://www.sommerfeldtools.com/products.asp?id=175

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   JMadson | Dec 09, 2005 12:15am | #7

   Just finished up installing pulls on new kitchen cabs. Used the attached jig. One side for left doors and turn it around for right doors. With the holes going all the way through, it prevented too much tearout when the drill went through. I just lined the bottom/top of the jig up with the top/bottom of the rail, dependent on upper or lower cabinets.

   By using plywood and a standard drill bit, by the time I got to the 20th pull, the holes were just starting to get a little sloppy. That being said, this is a one-time-use jig. But how often is every project the same?

   Joe

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   stinger | Dec 09, 2005 12:50am | #8

   Rockler sells one.  Go to their site and see whether it will work for you.

   A more exotic and versatile (and expensive) rig can be had by checking out the offering at the Woodworkers Hardware site.

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   DanH | Dec 09, 2005 01:06am | #9

   Check Rockler -- they sell jigs for darn near everything.

   If ignorance is bliss why aren't more people

   happy?

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   durabond5 | Dec 09, 2005 02:03am | #10

   Make your own because the store-bought ones will not always work. For example, the stiles are not always the same width and sometime the edge profile will throw things off so the hole in the jig is not centered on the stile. I know someone will say they have multiple holes but then the holes they give you are just for a pencil or a punch. You can make own that has a larger hole in it, ( the diameter of the outer sleeve of a vix-bit) and then you can clamp or hold the jig and drill it in one step.

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   DanH | Dec 09, 2005 04:36am | #11

   Most of the Rockler jigs are designed for Vix bits.
   If ignorance is bliss why aren't more people

   happy?

10. 
    DougU | Dec 09, 2005 05:00am | #12

    You said for pulls.

    Go to spheres post and re-read.66837.6

    You dont need to buy anything, I make one like what sphere described everytime I install the pulls and then pitch it.

    Doug

    
    

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    Edited 12/8/2005 9:01 pm ET by DougU