– DUEBEL Aluminum Alloy Woodworking Hole Opener Slotting Locator Wooden Door Hinge Guide Jig for Door Lock Installation

I ordered this jig to use with my router to have repeatable mortise joints in the gates I was making. I had read some critical reviews for it, but took a punt. My experience with the fixture is very good, it is well made with the cast body giving good stability to the setup, and the clamps for attaching to wood are very effective. The guide plates are flat and straight and work very well. I took the time to scribe a line on the top of the cast plate to use for alignment with the centre mark on the timber. This is very helpful for overall accuracy of the joints. When setting up you need to take time to ensure the guide plates are square and parallel for the best results. The only improvement I have made is to swap out the m6 bolts that clamp the guide plates and replace them with star knobs, also bought on Amazon. I would recommend this fixture as it is both accurate and good value for money.

This did the job admirably. I would say that this wouldn’t be worth it for just one or two doors but I had 7 doors to change so 21 hinges. Took me about 25 minutes to set it up, (used one of the old doors to practice) but from then on it took about two minutes to do the three hinges on each door including the clamping up set up. The little corner chisel device was also a great time saver, easy to line up, one whack with a mallet and the rounded router corners were instantly square. The hinges look perfect. It’s one of those things that I’ll probably never use again but saved me so much hassle and a few hundred quid too if I’d got a carpenter in

Well the jig is fine the router bit and the corner chisel not so good but they are changeable and I will buy a better quality but having said that the jig is good and for the money a bargain .

Great bit of kit once you set it up for hinges size and lock, it makes your life so much easier.

Its decent all cast aluminium body and guides. But It’s not very easy to use if using firstly and required a lot try cuts to set it perfectly for your needs. Also not very accurate “guides” does have far to much wiggle room in slots. Next thing is nut design for adjusting, it’s real pain in a$$. i ended up replacing original nuts with wing nuts for faster easier adjustment. And needed glue in bolts with some epoxy resin as few of them spin around since I got them

A very handy product. As a decent DIYer I did one door the old fashioned way using a chisel which took ages. Then purchased this jig for the 2nd door and it saved me a huge amount of time. Practiced a few times on some old timber, and tweaked the measurements, then cruised through the routing with perfect hinge cutouts. Good purchase.

Poor instruction.

A lot of trial and error to setup but worth it in the end. Saved myself 4 days on the job by using a router instead of a chisel. Does exactly the same job as one 4 times the price. 🙂