How To Make A Jig For Installing Cabinet Hardware

Cabinet hardware installation jigs are precision tools that tend to be geared more toward the prosumer and professional market.

How to make a jig for installing cabinet hardware. 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. Drill all the way through the back of the door front. First assemble the all metal jig according to the included instructions.

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. The way I make my jig takes very little time. The jig is made from three small pieces of 12 thick plywood.

Start with ½ plywood cut at 4x7 then glue stops that align along the bottom and the top. Then use the jig to measure the distance required between your handle holes and set the hole spacers. The wood is glued and nailed together.

The beauty of this jig is that it can be turned sideways and used for the cabinet doors as well. Complete this procedure on each cabinet door. You can make your own template by screwing two 1x1 pieces of scrap wood in a T pattern to a piece of thin plywood.

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. Most common cabinet hardware jigs consist of a metal T-square and a few sliding metal attachments that can locked into position along the axes of the square. We took the cabinet door off and set our cabinet door up at the drill press and drilled straight holes.

Then mark your exact hole placement on the cabinet and replicate that on your jig. Cabinetmakers fabricate several cabinet drawer jigs for different sizes of drawers. For standard D-handle cabinet pulls I cut a rectangular piece of thin ¼-inch plywood.