Honey-do Project...involved repainting all the doors and drawers in the Kitchen....Uppers were easy..take them down, paint them up....the handles needed a second hole drilled for the handle bolts...Easy to do on the table, once the paint was dry....

9 doors for the uppers....Drawers?  removed the 8 handles, paint the very FULL drawers in place, re-install the handles...

It was when we got to the lower doors...this old bod is NOT getting down on the floor to remove the screws from the bottom hinges, would have had to call 911 to get me up off the floor...

 

Again, I still need to add the second, lower bolt for the handles...after I had removed the handles, and painted the doors in place...make a cheap little jig to drill that second hole...

just a scrap of Maple...lay out two holes that matched the locations of the handle's bolts...mark one hole as T..for top...insert a bolt through that hole...

Bolt sticks out enough to be inserted into the existing hole on a door....Then clamp the jig in place..

MK II, MOD 4 (Bifocals) to sight down the side of the door, and the jig, when bot look parallel to each other..

Drill the hole for the bottom bolt...remove the jig, install the handle..move on to the next door....easy, right..lower back said NO, after the fifth door out of 10..will do the last 5 handles tomorrow...

 

The doors like nice, painted up and new hardware. 

You don't have a five gallon bucket to sit on?

Edited September 20, 20223 yr by Cal

Looks great Bandit. Nice break from the "Dungeon."

I have made jig(s) similar to this.  But it was a small piece of plywood that I put a border of solid wood on two sides.  Then it automatically lines up distance to top and sides.  If it's a left- or right-hinged door, then it works by just flipping it over.  And the distances are automatically set by the stops.

This was because not every location was the same.....couple varied left or right...and one was a little higher up than the others...

 

Have made one a few years ago...more of a T-square....to install handles on drawers, of a Chest-of-Drawers.  Wanted them to all line up, top to bottom.   Made of pine, at the time...wore the poor thing out...