Milescraft HingeMate300 Ready to Use Drop-in Door Hinge Template System for Routing Hinge, Strike and Latch Plate Mortises
$34.57
Rout matching mortises for hinges, strike plates and latch plates into your door and jamb with the Milescraft Complete Door Mortising Kit for Routers. It enables you to accurately hang a new or replacement door with minimal extra work. This kit includes an easy drop-in template design and everything you need for most hinges, strike plates and latch plates for 1-3/4 in. and 1-3/8 in. thick wood doors.
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Description
Rout matching mortises for hinges, strike plates and latch plates into your door and jamb with the Milescraft Complete Door Mortising Kit for Routers. It enables you to accurately hang a new or replacement door with minimal extra work. This kit includes an easy drop-in template design and everything you need for most hinges, strike plates and latch plates for 1-3/4 in. and 1-3/8 in. thick wood doors.
- Contains templates needed to rout hinge, strike plate, and latch plate mortises
- Rotate hinge templates to achieve 5/8 in. radius or 1/4 in. radius
- For use with routers and wooden doors/frames
- Sturdy steel template frame with door thickness selector for 1-3/4 in. and 1-3/8 in. doors
- Durable tungsten carbide-tipped router bit with ball bearing for eliminating the need for guide bushings on your router
- Easy-to-use, clearly marked drop-in template
- Centered tape measure tabs and easy measuring guide for precise installation of door hardware
- Templates come in a reusable package for organization between projects
WARNING: This product can expose you to chemicals including arsenic, which is known to the State of California to cause cancer. For more information, go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov
Additional information
| Weight | 1.84 lbs |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 1.80 × 16.50 × 7.00 in |
| Material | Steel |
| Model | 1213 |
| Power Tool Accessory Type | Other Accessory |
| Product Length (in.) | 16.7 in |
| Router Part/Accessory Type | Template/Guide |
| Tools Product Type | Power Tool |
Reviews (56)
56 reviews for Milescraft HingeMate300 Ready to Use Drop-in Door Hinge Template System for Routing Hinge, Strike and Latch Plate Mortises
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Kristin Rohan (verified owner) –
Worked perfectly for what I needed it for
Mireya Farrell (verified owner) –
Worked like a charm. This is a great tool with everything you need included. Highly recommend
Lottie Corkery (verified owner) –
Recommend with qualifications as work around required for jamb if 4″ hinge parts fit poorly.
Anderson Howell (verified owner) –
While the overall build quality could be improved, for the price, this is a pretty complete kit, including jig, templates for the jib, a mortising bit, and instructions. Do read the instructions. Better than buying individual templates. Once you set the depth correctly, you’re good to go for the rest of the project. Used this for 3 new slab doors, cutting into jambs decades old. Really the only downside is that to route accurately, the jig requires you to screw it into the door edge or jamb to make sure the template for the router doesn’t wander during the cut. While a clamp would work on the door, what else would you do for the jamb? If you’re sure-handed, your could tape with strong tape, but you’d be risking a bad cut.
Cassandra Muller (verified owner) –
Made the job easy.
Madelyn Huels (verified owner) –
I’ve done two bedroom doors, with one left to go. Once I figured out how to use this kit it all went smoothly. What I got from Home Depot was black, not red, and one template had a corner broken off, but it it is still useable and I didn’t want to hassle with an exchange. Here are a few things the instruction sheet does NOT tell you. First, it is great that it includes a router bit, just the right one, as well as a clever little chisel for squaring the corners for rectangular hinges. I am using rounded hinges and the mortises are perfect. Now, here is what you need to know. DON’T insert the bit all the way into the collet, but make sure that it comes out enough so that the bearing on the bit squarely contacts the template sides when you have the right depth set. I put mine in too far, and when I adjusted the router in its base to get the right depth of cut, the collet nut hit the plastic template and chewed up the edge. Fortunately it did not render the template unuseable, just cosmetically ugly. Now I have it right and everything works great.Next, the directions and the marking on the frame refer to the front of the door to orient the frame on the door edge, but this is for a door that opens OUT, i.e. towards you. The bedroom doors I am doing open IN, so I had to think through where the frame goes in terms of where the router is going to cut the mortise, and make sure it matched up with the hinge location and orientation. The old carpenter’s saying, “measure twice, cut once” applies here, and I being a beginner, actually measured and checked everything four or five times to be sure I got it right.It now comes with two screws, which are way better than nails. You don’t have to blast them in – if you go easy they won’t strip and can be reused a few times.Before cutting anything check that your door fits the jamb with a little room for clearance top and bottom, as you may need to trim a little off the door. Do this before marking and cutting the mortises. If you are locating the new hinges at the same spots as the old hinges, measure everything multiple times and check it. Their table will be useless for this case.I did not find many low priced mortising kits or devices like this one. Looks like the best value for the price. The fancy ones seem to cost a lot more, and I’m not convinced they are worth that much.This kit is definitely “complete” and is doing the job I need to do.
Sierra Steuber (verified owner) –
This kit was great. I had fifteen doors with no latch or strike plates. Mounted the template with screws provided. Used the included router bit on the installed prejudge doors and everything looks great. Well worth it.
Isabell Huels (verified owner) –
Everything you need to install mortise hinges in any door
Virginia O’Kon (verified owner) –
Simple instructions, easy to use even for first time users
Hardy Keeling (verified owner) –
I purchased this tool as a way to efficiently replace all my interior doors without installing new pre-hung doors and replacing trim. The tool is easy to use and has made the job of installing new slab doors a breeze.
Oswald Kunde (verified owner) –
We’re replacing 17 interior doors and this product is a life-saver. The heads of the screws that came with it have stripped but those were easily replaced. The only change I would suggest is that the orientation for the base is covered by the templates so if that could be moved it might be helpful and the templates are a bit tough to get all the way into the base.
Bridie Schamberger (verified owner) –
works great beats a chisel hands down no problem with gap on hinge if you use correct plate to hinge size 3inch by5/8s round fits perfect took me 20minutes to do door hinges and strike plate both per door
Jayme Schimmel (verified owner) –
I recased an exterior door and routered out the hinges and strike plate and everything fit perfect. Only suggestion I have is that it would come with some kind of case. Other than that its a great product.
Neoma Emmerich (verified owner) –
I’d have purchased the next kit up with the screw center hole alignment tool includedThe product needs to come in a heavy duty storage box that can be used in the shop or taken with you .Currently,you open the packaging and you can loose parts
Talia Spinka (verified owner) –
Product performed as advertised. Did 7 doors an d the y came out perfect.
Aracely Gleichner (verified owner) –
Worked exactly as described
Abigale Batz (verified owner) –
The templates didn’t seat well in the jig frame. They would rock from front to back when applying a trim router causing an uneven cut.
Virgil Witting (verified owner) –
Good product. It allowed me to do all the mortising I needed to do.The only problem is the templates pop out to easy and because the template is off balance it wants to fall to the floor if you are not careful. Mine fell and the door size guide fell off. After that the template would not line up square so I was forced to use my tri square to line up each end of the template.
Rollin Leuschke (verified owner) –
Lower than I expected excellent quality with great instructions OK
Jade Haley (verified owner) –
The results were improved if you used screws in place of the included nails to hold down the template. The fit of the mortise was not quite what I desired but acceptable. For the price, not bad.