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You betcha! This is not the sort of thing you want to make a career out of but I can tell you the more of them you do the faster and easier it gets😊

Thanks! CA glue and 1/2" HDF are great for all sorts of templates, right? : ruclips.net/video/RSW2ZSdyEmw/видео.html The benefit of building the hinge corner radius into the template IMHO is that one size bit works with any radius (down to 1/4", that is) and I've not seen a 1 1/4" radius 1/4" shank flush trim bit. Of course they're using the full size bit for pre-hung door hanging machines but that's a different scenario.

Cool... I don't like to discourage your ambition but, if you end up with new doors and jambs and there's more than a few, a dedicated hinge routing fixture that adjusts for different height door slabs and hinge count might be a more efficient way to go... and a good excuse to buy one too! Best, Matt

My favorite is GRK Brand screws like these: www.amazon.com/dp/B001SF790A?linkCode=ssc&tag=onamzdigitalj-20&creativeASIN=B001SF790A&asc_item-id=amzn1.ideas.29WVINIJF4EUJ&ref_=aip_sf_list_spv_ons_d_asin but any brand of similar quality will work fine. The wire is ususally 12 or 14 gauge but that depends on if it's solid or stranded so start there and adjust accordingly. You can sure use tapcons but I wanted to show that other, less expensive types and brands work well to for many applications so use what you're comfortable with for the price. Best, Matt

Gasoline fumes are toxic to breathe... do you wear a haz-mat suit at the filling station or do you just stay mindful of what you're doing to avoid inhaling them? That's the perspective I use...

Congratulations Cayeye... you nailed it! It's simply about the ability to lift/position the door using a thumb under that bottom knuckle making the process easier and faster with far less likelihood of getting pinched in the process. So many doors are pre-hung these days and no one in the mass production environment is EVER going to take the time to "hand" the hinges to match the swing of left and right handed doors, mainly because they never have to actually hang a door. They just slap them on and screw 'em in place with the pins pointing up, which ever way the manufacturer makes their particular hinge. This is a prime example of one of my favorite quotes "you gotta make it easy on yourself because no one is going to do it for you!" Hence the dedicated Hinge Pin Removal Block I made for the purpose of handing hinges. It shows up in the video here: ruclips.net/video/A3X7rPbgcJ4/видео.htmlsi=ujTckio09Maqoa2O&t=280 If it generates enough interest I may even do a short video showing how to make one and offer a PDF plan... Thanks for taking a deep dive into this... your effort and conclusion settle the matter and will benefit any viewers who take a minute to read this thread. Best, Matt

​@@NextLevelCarpentry It's always a pleasure watching your videos, and thanks for sharing your knowledge, creativity, and experience with us.

@@cateye45 youbetcha... just payin' it forward from the guy who taught me this back in about 1990! 😎

It's a PARTY!!!🎉🎊

"To" much talk? More like not enough basic spelling and grammar... you should work on that.

Thanks!

Indeed.

Totally appropriate, don't you agree?

You're too kind: the scenario is much more likely a scatterbrained carpenter than strategic planning IMHO.

Gotta do what works for you, even if it's opposite. Stay tuned for my explanation... I'm still waiting for someone to hit the bullseye.

I don't think there's a functional difference between the two orientations but there IS a difference I prefer. BTW Even hinges with "nerps" (NonRemovablePins) can be flipped but it requires driving out the little button on the bottom of the bottom 3rd knuckle and re-driving it into the top knuckle. It works because the nerp screw is in the center of the center knuckle so it's 'ambidexterous'. FWIW I've done this exact thing on hundreds of commercial grade ball bearing style heavy duty hinges.

@@NextLevelCarpentry Thanks for your answer. I always enjoy your videos. You do everything well, and I admire that. “How you do anything, is how you do everything!”

Glad to hear it!

Good eye! You sure can orient the stop for both situations... and, in most cases, it's a better approach. Truth be told I got caught off guard in production for the video because I started out needing to only mortise the door edge so the first configuration was easier/better. When I decided to do a video of the process for RUclips I had to backpedal for the sake of the video. I decided to leave the swap-er-roo in the final production so viewers would see and understand the differences and benefits and be able to decide for themselves depending on the task at hand.

Bottom line, IMHO, is that it's more of a practical answer and less than a technical one.

Obviously we've never met because I'm just that "nobody" who actually DOES remove and reinstall pins so that the 3 knuckle leaf is always on the door. I'd agree that (almost) nobody ever cares or knows which leaf is where but, yes, I'm "that guy". 😉

You're free to do what you suggest... but you might want to keep this method in mind for when you forgot your Templaco template back at the shop or you need to do just 2 hinges of a different size and don't want to wait to special order another template for your collection?

20~50 hours of work to build these sawhorses?! Good grief, no wonder your suggestion is so socialist in nature. You're probably a nice fellow but your comment and reasoning is whack... juss sayin'!

@@NextLevelCarpentry you are a nice man, but my first sentence states, basically, great, you earn money from the video, GREAT, free enterprise (that sort of means what you do you get to keep and reap the rewards without red tape and government interference). Also, said, about the comments, some watched a 30+ video 20 to 30 times, do the math = that's 600 to 900 minutes not counting going to the store to buy the wood, maybe buy a moisture meter too and other things and most, especially beginning (I didn't) don't have a joiner or planer and if they go to a box store that's waste, but I digress. I was just talking about the hours invested in watching a saw horse video. They should make it in couple hours (not over a thousand minutes) and instead use that time to earn money(i.e. the 8 hours o.t. a month) or help some vets and/or volunteer at the church instead and help those that really, really need help, build the saw horses for the church instead. I think your video is good but made way to complex for the beginner and if you are about beginner you should be able to make your own saw horses, that's all brother!! P.S. you do make a great presentation, but read some of the guys that watched your video 20 or 30 times and I think you will agree with me. God Bless Brother!!

I imagine that you too are 'a nice guy' but your perspective seems to be rooted in socialism, academia or government bureaucracy. For one, it's ridiculous to conclude that if someone 'watches' the video 20-30 times that they watch the entire thing, beginning to end, each and every time. That, frankly, is stupid. If you look up a word in the dictionary that starts with the letter "L", do you start with aardvark and end with zenith? Do you suggest that people shouldn't invest time learning because their first attempts take exponentially more time than later attempts after they gain knowledge and experience? Think of the video as a college course: 'way to complex for the beginner' but, after taking the course, it's routine to the point that the beginner will 'be able to make their own sawhorses' in jig time. It's called learning. To imply that the time is wasted if not spent virtue signaling is arrogant on your part. Please don't project your shortcomings and motivations onto others who invest time to learn skills that make them productive members of society with the implication that they're not as altruistic as you portray yourself. Regards, Matt

@@NextLevelCarpentry Hi, I try to be nice. It is so funny that you think I am a socialist (that's the money arm of communism so just call me a communist or cultural marxist (lol)). I am so far from that. If I was a communist then I am doing so much wrong when all my children are ultra conservative and religious and the one husband is the same as is my wife. Your assumptions, because I think instead of watching your video 30 times (and if they are watching for a minute each time cool, but you then are assuming how long they are watching your video and I am, once again going by facts). If they only watched a bit each time then say i checked back for such and such 30 different times. If someone said they saw the Godfather 30 times, by your ridiculous assumptions that person could have only seen 30 minutes (assuming "watching" means what your meaning of watching is) of the Godfather. Again you are assuming they only watch for a bit and for a saw horse, really, come on you know you can take 5 eight feet 2x4's and make a pair of those. If they want to really learn don't use power tool, so they can get the feel of tool work in the beginning. Buy I stand by helping others, which means you must be a government man and say watch my video for 10 hours and those in need go to the government that's what they are there for. That is the attitude, not helping one another through private, town and church help, but run to the government and raise my taxes which I know are 5 times your taxes so I guess I got to subsidize you guys all the time and your mouthing that you help people stems from greed or Pat's on the back, if I'm wrong donate all the money to young people learn carpentry instead of having me an other taxe payers subsidize all you guys that are greedy. God bless brother and I will say extra prayers to the Lord our Saviour for all those wasting hours (and I know kids that male these in work shops and you do too and if it is to complicated maybe carpentry isn't for you) watching videos. P.S. they should learn (assuming they are adults) by trial and error and doing like most of us did. P.S.S. I still can't wait to tell the family you think I am a socialist (I mean communist). Wait, that's the term communists use, meaning socialist or progressive or democratic or democrat instead of communist. Are you sure you aren't one of those what's mine is mine and you guys pay for everything (a.k.a. A communist) while I really don't work for a living. God Bless!!

@@james8583 Wow... just, wow! SMH

I nearly had a nervous breakdown when, at the end, I said "I could have easily doubled the length of this video..." but didn't! 🤣

Close...

Thanks for weighing in... getting close to the simple and practical reason I have.

My work is done here now! 🤣

Good to see you here, Jonathan! Doesn't really have anything to do with door adjustment though... in my world, at least.

Stay tuned... the answer I have is rather banal but very useful and practical IMHO.

Is it for added support for the door?

There's no 'added support' for the door, regardless of leaf orientation.

I sure could use an assistant to chisel hinge mortises if I didn't have a router and template, that's for sure!

You're spot on with the 'universal jig' approach to hinge mortising... many will find it helpful if they read your comment and understand the difference. FWIW I too believe Spencer at Insider Carpentry has a bright future in any direction he cares to go... and you can tell him I said so. 😁

I am planning to make the universal jig that you describe. I also plan to bridge the top surface over the guide. This will help keep the router from tipping if I get in a hurry. I also plan to make it a triple fixture since I do almost all 6/8 doors. I think that if I make the ends identical with a 5" leg then it will be reversible. I can just use a 1/8" spacer against the head jamb to offset the jamb spacing.

@@scottgates4616 You remind me of me 'back in the day'! You already brainstormed through the design and will end up with a very slick hinge routing jig... nice! At some point an 'official' hinge routing template/fixture like the one expandable one Trend makes might make sense? I see it can be adapted for various door heights and hinge count which might make it a good investment, depending on how often and how similar your door hanging projects are. Personally it's so rare that I do any two doors that are alike that I don't have a 'fancy' setup but can imagine a workflow where it would make sense. Best, Matt

Thanks for taking time out of your frenetic schedule to watch and comment my friend... much appreciated!!

Posing the question was an ad-lib moment during video production and is generating more buzz than expected... hope the ultimate answer I have to offer isn't too anticlimactic for everyone who's weighed in?

LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLong story... it would take a novel to explain it all but it's not what you're thinking.

@@NextLevelCarpentry You are underestimating the power of my imagination :-) Does the house belong to someone who bought a large quantity of these hinges and went broke unable to sell them? 🙂

@@weekendwarrior3420 😎A key factor is that there's such a hodgepodge of doors in the house from original ones 100 ish years old to newer, prehung ones and other new replacement slabs hung in 50 or 100 year old jambs that this is primarily an attempt to create a new common denominator and, on the contrary, breaking the remodeling budget bank isn't even a factor for this particular client.

@@NextLevelCarpentry Ok, it's between you and the client of course. I, personally, would just use the same type of hinge that was there before and not deal with patching the holes. Because, practically, a person can only see one door at once, and rarely focuses on hinges. As long as they have the same finish I'm almost sure nobody will notice.

In many (most?) remodeling projects there's no perfect answer/approach to the problem so I generally find it a compromise between client and carpenter. This job, this time this is the 'best' solution but it's far from the only acceptable one.

First: I always put the 3 knuckle leaf on the door, not the jamb/frame. I don't think there's any real strength benefit regarding 'shear forces' involved... think of a 'weakest link in a chain' scenario where it doesn't matter which end of the chain is being pulled harder?