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Spent $340 on a magnetic door catch jig when a 2 cent shim did the same thing
Back when I started in my uncle's shop in Toledo we just tapped hinges in by hand and eyeballed the gaps, and honestly it worked fine. Last spring I got sold on one of those fancy magnetic jigs for drilling concealed hinge cups, dropped $340 on it plus another $60 in bits. Ran it on a set of maple uppers and the cups came out wandering maybe 1/16 off center because the jig flexed on the stile. Turns out the fix was a scrap of business card shimmed under my old drill guide, took me ten seconds. Anybody else buy a gadget that got beat by a piece of trash off the floor?
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vera_robinson369d ago
That maple stile sounds like it was crowned or twisted and no jig on earth will fix that, the flexing was probably your bit walking in hard grain. A $340 jig that needs a business card to work right is just a $340 paperweight, I'd have sent it back.
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