How To Make A Jig For Cabinet Pulls

Step 2 Spread glue on one edge of each of the 4-inch dowels.

How to make a jig for cabinet pulls. I also made one for doors. Cut three 12-inch dowels to 4 inches and two dowels to 2-12 inches. Cabinetmakers fabricate several cabinet drawer jigs for different sizes of drawers.

The jig is made from three small pieces of 12 thick plywood. Then mark your exact hole placement on the cabinet and replicate that on your jig. To use the jig you just put a mark on it where you want the door pulls to be located and then drill a hole.

To ready the jig for use draw a centerline on the drill guide and lay out the pulls screw locations from this centerline. How To Make a Jig For Cabinet Hardware To make the jig the first step we did was to measure the width of the stile mark the center point measured the handles then with a tape measure we marked the handle length on the cabinet stile. The bushings are aluminum brass ones were out of stock and are pressed in.

Then use the jig to measure the distance required between your handle holes and set the hole spacers. I too cannot justify 300 for a jig that I could make in 20 minutes with scraps and 250 in bushings. Start with ½ plywood cut at 4x7 then glue stops that align along the bottom and the top.

Use one sliding drill guide with the end stop and one extension arm. These are a cinch to make can be done with just about any thickness of wood and are a perfect project to use up scrap wood. Place Jig on Cabinet Now that you have your jig template completed place it snugly against the corner of the cabinet and drill the holes into the cabinet.

We took the cabinet door off and set our cabinet door up at the drill press and drilled straight holes. With a 6 self-centering bit drill pilots for the hinge plates. This works great when youre using the same hardware for multiple drawer fronts that are different sizes.