Jig Template for Kitchen,Bedroom,Bathroom Cabinet Hinges and Mounting Plates

Jig worked well for mounting hinges on kitchen cabinets. If you plan to do a lot of hinges regularly consider a more expensive one , but this is perfect for doing a kitchen now and again.

I have recently drilled 24 hinge holes and used this template for marking the positions; this item was really effective and made the job quick and time efficient.A great cost effective product and extremely simple to use.

First the positives - makes fitting concealed hinges SUPER easy. In the most part.I'd always recommend doing a mock-up first, no matter how confident you are in your measurements, but for my purpose (overlaid hinges in 18mm MDF) the further of the two centre holes for the hinge itself were perfectly placed and the two holes for the cruciform mounting plates were also perfect.Using the jig was ridiculously easy. Get a pencil, a carpenter's square, and an awl. Choose where you want your hinge and line up your door and carcass. Mark both, then use your square to continue the mark in a straight line onto the inside of the door and carcass.Now line the jig up with the mark on your carcass, with the cruciform side showing, and use your awl (or a pencil) to mark the top and bottom screw holes.Next line the jig up with the mark on your door, with the circle side showing, and use awl or pencil to mark the centre of the 35mm hole. For me (using standard Blum hinges) the deeper of the two holes was perfect for 18mm door on 18mm carcass.Screw your cruciform mounting plate onto the carcass. Grab your 35mm forstner bit and use your awl hole in the door to centre the bit. Use slow setting on the drill and empty sawdust from the hole regularly. I didn't use a drill press or jig to hold the drill, just tried to keep it fairly upright and straight, and turned out fine.Now the negatives. You might have noticed I didn't say to use the screw holes on the door side of the jig. That's because they're nowhere near where they should have been. As above, I used standard Blum common-as-muck 95 degree hinges. Literally the most common concealed hinges in existence.This meant, for the screw holes on the door I had to square the hinge with the door using my carpenter's square, clamp it down, use a self-centering drill bit to drill pilot holes, then repeat.If the holes in the jig were just in the right place, I could've saved myself all this hassle. If I were going to be doing loads of these I'd mark up and drill extra holes for the fixing screws on the door side of the jig, but I'm not.Cheap, super easy to use, but disappointingly close to being REALLY useful. I'm sure there's hinges that these fit perfectly, but they aren't Blum ones!!

I needed to replace the cabinet hinges for a kitchen cabinet door, but found that the old mounting plates (that's the bit inside the cabinet wall) were completely incompatible with newer Blum hinges. I ordered some Blum plates but then found that the screws are supposed to be set 37mm inside the cabinet. I wasn't confident in getting exactly 37mm in and also getting the distance between the screws exactly right either. This jig has holes 37mm in and with the angled edge meant I could much more accurately set the screw holes.I then used a rotary tool with the jig in place to mark the holes, removed the jig and drilled pilot holes for the mounting plate screws at the points already marked and attached the plates. Once I'd also attached the new hinges to the door I was able to attach them to the mounting plates easily. This jig also has holes for drilling out the cabinet door but I didn't need these since the large round hole was already there. At the price it's well worth the peace of mind of getting the mounting plates exactly where they should be.

Simple and effective

I have to admit to feeling a bit stupid. What I got was exactly as discribed and pictured but as I held the small one piece plastic moulding in my hand, I couldn't help thinking, "how much?"I would recommend if it was a third the price but (a) its going to wear out pretty quickly (b) you can make one yourself fairly easily and (c) its how much?

perfect little help in the workshop!

Works really well for fitting hinges. As you’d expect, people who are complaining about the price as it’s just a piece of plastic... yes, but it’s a piece with the holes in the correct place. Save me working it out each time. The reason I got it. Only 4 stars as I was miss lead by the picture. Which does seem to make out that it’s metal. It’s not, but still works great 👍🏼