If you have a router, pick up a hinge guide for it. The hinge guide I have is door length and will accept 3 or 4 hinge template guides [depending on your choice of hinge layout].
With it, I set the door in the opening, shim the bottom clearance [or cut the door to length, then shim bottom clearance] pencil mark the existing hinge location [if it's a replacement door into an existing frame]. Then clamp the handy dandy hinge guide in place and set/locate the individual hinge template guides to their respective locations. With the router set to depth and the right kind of bit, it takes only seconds per hinge location to make perfect hinges. Well worth the investment. This guide came from Home Depot because they were handy and I was in a hurry, but I'm there are sure better / cheaper deals can be found. It also works on casements if you are making full replacements and there are template cutout guides for entry door thickness as well as interior door thickness. A feature you might want to keep in mind. Another handy tool to have is a little drill guide that has a taper that just fits the screw hole in the hinge plate. It lets you predrill the hinge screw holes and makes hinge mounting easy, clean, and most importantly tight and accurate. Again, well worth the investment. No crooked screws that later fail the door mount. Enjoy your new life as a carpenter, after the first two or so, it stops being a PIA and becomes welllllll work... Grant... AZ On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Dimitri Seretakis <dsereta...@yahoo.com>wrote: > I've replaced/hung from scratch and framed out many door openings. I'm kind > of old fashioned in my techniques so I just chisel everything out. As far as > knowing where to place the hinge on the door, I put the door in the opening, > shim the bottom so all spaces are perfect then I mark on the door the > location of the hinge with respect to the existing hinge on the jamb. It > works perfectly. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 28, 2011, at 11:49 PM, "Jerry Herrman" <jer...@san.rr.com> wrote: > > I am looking for advice or a good tutorial on how to replace existing doors > in the house. I plan to replace all 10 of the interior doors, and I will > need a template for the router to cut for the hinges and the lock set recess > on the opposite edge of the door. I already have all I need for installing > the new locks. I will be using the existing cutouts on the door jambs.I > would be looking for any time and labor saving devices. > Thanks in advance. > > Jerry > 82 240D > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature > database 6248 (20110628) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
