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I’m a full-time cupboard installer, and I got here up with this jig for finding handles and pulls in doorways and drawer fronts. It’s basically a sq. with a slot within the lengthy leg that permits you to slide a drilling template out and in. I take advantage of toe-kick offcuts for the templates, however any 1/4-in. plywood or MDF will work. I assembled the layers of the sq. with air-driven pins and glue, ensuring to maintain the within faces flush and sq.. After the glue dried, I inserted dowels into the joints for added power.
To create the template and arrange the jig, begin by drilling one door or drawer completely in your {hardware}. Then slide a bit of template inventory into the jig, lock it in place with the set screws, clamp it onto the entrance of the door, and drill by way of the present holes to proceed them into the template. After you could merely clamp the jig onto another drawers or doorways and drill, flipping the jig as wanted for right- or left-handed doorways. In observe, I solely use the template to attain the door or drawer entrance with my drill bit. Then I take away the jig, clamp a blowout block onto the again of the door, and end drilling.
—ROBERT ELLIOT, Marshfield, Mass.
Illustrations by Dan Thornton
From Positive Woodworking situation #297
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