32 door and drawer hole jig

One of the challenges that you'll face at the end of a cabinet building project

sounds pretty simple but it can be very troublesome and that's getting the door

and drawer knob holes located just right. The slightest little bit of mismatch

from one knob to another especially with adjoining doors can make everything look

terrible and there's no easy way to fix it after the fact. So to avoid trouble

the first thing you need to do is to forget your tape measure. No steel rulers

no tape measures no measuring of any sort because you will always get it a

little bit wrong and even if you don't get the marks a little bit wrong the

drilling will never be exactly where you want it to be because without some sort

of a guide the drill bit is going to shift a little bit. Even a 32nd of an

inch you can see with your eye and it's a very disappointing situation so that's

why you want to make up a little bit of a drilling jig. It doesn't have to be

fancy this is about the least fancy drilling jig you can imagine but it does

something very important. It regulates the drilling of the screw hole for a

knob from the edge and the bottom of a drawer of a door or drawer face. So here's

how it works it has a ledge on one side and then there's a hole drilled where I

want the knob hole to go. So we just simply align this up tight to the edge

and flush to the bottom and then we can we're free to drill our hole here

Now that's not only faster than measuring holes for a whole bunch of

cabinets but when there's an adjoining door here we can just simply use the jig

on the other side. It's interchangeable it works on both one side or the other

and since there's no measuring and there's no chance that the drill bit

will wander once it's following this hole you can be assured of very fast and

accurate drilling from one door to the next