How To Make A Kitchen Door Handle Jig

The amazing kitchen cupboard handle jig in action.

How to make a kitchen door handle jig.

The best way to do this is to make a simple jig from a scrap of plywood with strips attached to the jig to act as stops for the top and edge of the door. By placing the rail horizontally above the door panel and the stile vertically next to the door panel they form a joint to hold the panel in. Perfectly aligned handles without lots of tedious measuring. I also make the jig reversible a.

Hold the jig in place on the cabinet door and drill the aligned holes through it. The above video from the woodworkers guild of america demonstrates how to make the jig. All cabinets have door panels and most cabinets also have door rails and door stiles. Make this simple jig to get the hole placement right every time.

Check out this very simple jig i put together to install drawer pull hardware. 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. We locate the center point of our drawer front lay the slot in the jig right on the mark and just hold it in place as we drill the holes for the drawer handle. Start with plywood cut at 4 x7 then.

The beauty of this jig is that it can be turned sideways and used for the cabinet doors as well. To select the drill bit size i just pick a drill bit that is slightly bigger in diameter than the screw that comes with the drawer pull. When installing cabinet handles and knobs on doors and drawers the screw holes need to all be drilled the same so the hardware will align properly. Using this jig you can easily drill holes for drawer handles that will be perfectly spaced and level without having.