Customer Reviews for Milescraft HingeMate300 - Complete Jig for Mortising Door & Jamb Hinges and Latch & Strike Plates. Router Bit Included

A bracket affixes to the door. The bracket has knobs that are adjustable for placement of the bracket on the door edge, depending on the door width. Features abut the door based on the knob positions. These features, unfortunately, were poorly assembled, and didn't support bracket properly (i.e., square) in relation to the door edge. This is unfortunate because there is no play in mating hinge plates. Additionally, I bought this product particularly for adjusting hinge plates in relation to existing jams. It does not fit on an existing jamb with trim installed. Who wants to remove the trim? It's not as pretty but it's easier to use a chisel.

I looked around online for a decent door motising kit as I am replacing about 5 interior doors with slab doors. I chose this one for the variety of mortise patterns and the relatively low price. HD seemed to have to the best price. I've got one door done and it worked great - hinges and plates fit perfectly in the mortise. Nailing the metal piece to the door was easy with a small pilot hole drilled first. Rock the metal piece back and forth once or twice to raise the nails in order to pry them out once finished. The router bit was a nice addition so that I didn't have to find the correct bit in the store. Setting the cut depth on the router is the most time consuming part. I made a shallow cut first, test fit the hinge, then cut deeper if necessary. The hinges and strike plates may have different depths so try to do all of one or the other once you get the cut depth set on the router.

Very solid and accurate. But you have to nail in place, leaving holes to be filled in doors and jambs.