How To Cut Kitchen Door Hinges

I ll be sharing my experience on these very soon but haven t bought one of these yet.

How to cut kitchen door hinges.

Use your chisel and hammer to chisel out the scored area. It is a lot quicker and more precise. Trace your hinges in the spot that you want them onto your door. How to cut the perfect hinge in minutes.

Trace that line with an exacto knife and then score within that area to be cut out with the knife. In this video home renovation brothers dave and rich show you how to cut out a door hinge. Place the hinge in the cut out spot to check fit. But you might want to consider using a door hinge jig and a router instead.

But also if you are a beginning diy er it might take a while to get the hang of using. You can cut the hinges with a hammer and chisel certainly. First i placed the round section of my kitchen door hinge in to the ready cut hole which i believe is typically done for you on flat packed carcasses. If you don t have pre cut holes or you are making your own kitchen doors you can buy a hinge cutter like these.

This is the perfect tutorial showing you how to cut in the perfect door hinge. Use a utility knife to trace the outline in the wood. Watch how quick and easy it is to precisely cut out a hinge morti. It will save you loads of time particularly if you need to hang more than one door.

Using a chisel and hammer make grooves along the traced outline and do the same on the outside to measure the depth. The next time that hanging a door is on your to do list you might also need to cut the hinges yourself if it isn t a pre hung door. Take a hinge and put it on the spine of the door and make sure that it is in line with the pencil line. To cut door hinges with a chisel place your hinge on top of the door to make an outline with a pencil.

With the help of a tape measure the distance from the bottom to the top of the door and then mark it with a pencil. Using the hammer and chisel carve the outline to dig out the score from the door.