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Old 12-05-2005, 10:27 AM   #1
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Mortising Doors

What do you use? I've always done the occasional door with chisel, but have a job coming up requiring mortising for 15 doors. I think I may want to buy a motising jig, only one I have seen is Porter-Cable.

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What do you use? I've always done the occasional door with chisel, but have a job coming up requiring mortising for 15 doors. I think I may want to buy a motising jig, only one I have seen is Porter-Cable.

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When I need to mortise I use my Delta mortising attachment on my delta drill press. It is a square hole chisel mortiser. I will do 4 size holes, 1/4, 5/16, 3/8 and 1/2". Delta (and others I'm sure) make a dedicated mortising machine, which is basically the same thing I do with my drill press. The mortising attachment kit (17-935) with 4 chisels is about $70 (i think, been a while). Make sure it will work on your drill press.
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The plastic PorterCable one is the one I use. It works great. Practice on a scrap piece as to get the positioning and depth right.
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The plastic PorterCable one is the one I use. It works great. Practice on a scrap piece as to get the positioning and depth right.
this is the way to go if you don't do it all the time.
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For lock mortising

http://www.contractortalk.com/f3/mortise-locks-5149/

or I guess you're just talking about hinge-mortising

'Hinge-Mate' hinge-mortising kit works fine for individual hinges.
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Leo, I believe that he is referring to hanging doors not making them.

BTW, I have the Delta jig as well. It was originally Dad's and God only knows how many holes it has drilled. I STILL get a kick out of telling people that I can drill square holes, it really baffles most of them. LOL
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I think Leo's in 'lock-mortising' mode, - - I was thinkin' the same thing at first. Some of us love over-complicating things!!
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I think Leo's in 'lock-mortising' mode, - - I was thinkin' the same thing at first. Some of us love over-complicating things!!
Nope, Leo's into making doors. You know, mortise and tenon. I didn't realize he was just talking about the simple task of mortising a hinge. Just a piece of wood with the correct size cutout and a router with a rub collar will do it. Or if your in a bind, screw the hinge to the door in the corrext position and use a utility knife to score around the hinge, remove the hinge and then route the area out, when you get close to the score line the wood will just fly out. Th PC jig sounds right.
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I use the PC jig too. Anyone know where to find replacement bits without having to order?
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use a utility knife to score around the hinge
Or better yet, - - use a hinge-butt marker, - - one good hammer-whack and it's chisel-marked.
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I use the PC jig too. Anyone know where to find replacement bits without having to order?
Not sure if it's the same as the 'Hinge-Mate' uses, - - 1/4" shank, 1/2" diameter mortise, 3/4" top-bearing, - - but I looked all over, finally had to order, - - it was about $28.50
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Or better yet, - - use a hinge-butt marker, - - one good hammer-whack and it's chisel-marked.




Have two to them in different sizes I got from Granddad along with a real metal miter box.
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The porter cable is a piece of ******************** that will break if you look at it the wrong way. Trust me, I go through a revolving door at HD returning them.

Save yourself the aggravation and go to www.templaco.com. They make the best ones you can buy and are cheap.
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For the amount of doors you have coming up on this job, I would definitly recommend picking up either a porta-cable or bosch hinge routing jig. You could mortise your doors very quickly, and take the jig to the doorframe and mortise those out to match the door for an exact fit. Check out amazon.com Tool Crib for the hinge jigs. Best selection of tools, more so than the average lumber yard or home center. Best of luck with your project
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Re: Mortising Doors

I would second everything awidmeyer said.

A lot of places that sell baldwin locksets will loan you a portercable lock mortiser for a couple days by the way.

Bosch and templaco are also the best on the market for the other stuff far as I'm concerned. No sense buying cheap if this is how you make your living.

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what about a sharp pencil, and a sharp chisel?..Thats what I use..I did use one of those Porter Cable jigs.. I lifted my router out without letting it stop first..it tore the jig to ********************..the hinge mate looks pretty cool though
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Also, if you are doing alot of mortise locks, make a 1/4" thick plexi-glass template to slide over the edge of the door with a 1/8" thick x 1 1/4" wide x 8" high piece of plexi attached to the inside part of the jig to fit inside the face plate prep on the edge of door (for proper allignment) then drill little holes so you can mark cylinder, spindle, through bolts, thumb turn, etc on the edge of the door with a pencil. If you have the parts cut at the plastic shop get enough to make several jigs for different manufacturers (Baldwin, Schlage, Sargeant, Marks, etc..) Really saves alot of time
Do you have a picture of this setup? Thanks
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spend the money, buy a full length metal hinge jig set, pc or bosch, don't waste time or accuracy with the cheap junk
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Wow i have seen them do that on this old house. They have a beautiful long like metal jig for that. They have another jig for installing the old fashion hardware on a door. I just assumed all contractors had one of those. But they do look EXPENSIVE. The long jig is for cutting hinges into doors.
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