Comments on: Dealmonger: E-Z Mark 4″ Butt Gage http://toolmonger.com/2009/06/25/dealmonger-e-z-mark-4-butt-gage/ All tools. All the time. Your source for news, information, and reviews of hand tools, power tools, and tools of all kinds. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:31:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Walt http://toolmonger.com/2009/06/25/dealmonger-e-z-mark-4-butt-gage/#comment-973918 Walt Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:16:35 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/?p=26263#comment-973918 Gage? Guage? Gauge? Ack! Proper use of spelling defeats me again. Gage? Guage? Gauge? Ack! Proper use of spelling defeats me again.

]]> By: Walt http://toolmonger.com/2009/06/25/dealmonger-e-z-mark-4-butt-gage/#comment-973917 Walt Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:15:02 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/?p=26263#comment-973917 You said, "butt guage." huh-huh-huh You said, “butt guage.” huh-huh-huh

]]> By: fred http://toolmonger.com/2009/06/25/dealmonger-e-z-mark-4-butt-gage/#comment-972697 fred Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:34:38 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/?p=26263#comment-972697 This is a tool that I believe time has passed by. These were once made in at least 4 sizes to fit 3, 3-1/2, 4 and 4-1/2 inch square-cornered hinges. I think that both Stanley and Adjustable Clamp made versions. General tools made an adjustable marking gauge that was a bit slower to use – but could also be used to scribe lines for reveals. In all cases they were used to mark the location of hinges on a slab door – and the hinge mortise (butt) was chiseled out with a mallet and a Butt chisel. The idea of the tool was to speed up the process for installing multiple hinges. Nowadays – if you want to speed up the process – you either buy pre-hung doors (where the work is done in a jamb shop) our use one of several router templates and a router with a mortising bit to accomplish the same thing. We try to steer our clients to the pre-hung door option – as a way to save cost. But if they want a certain look (special doors – or Baldwin Brass hinges as an example) we resort to our router jigs. We have an old long Porter Cable that sets up for 3 hinges at once – and an even older Stanley jig that is no longer made (I think that Bosch has one patterned after the Stanley) that we use for 4-hinge doors. For cases where it’s a real special installation with non-standard hinge placement – we use a HingeMate template - but that adds time to the job and cost. Routers, of course cut round-cornered mortises – so if the client doesn’t like this look - a PC corner chisel will square things up. While pre-hung doors are usually ordered pre-bored for locksets/passage sets - slab doors need more work. We like our lockset boring jig – made by Classic Engineering – which offers different options for different backsets and non-standard diameters. We also get a few clients who want to match (or use) old mortised-in locksets - so then out comes our Porter Cable 513 mortising machine This is a tool that I believe time has passed by. These were once made in at least 4 sizes to fit 3, 3-1/2, 4 and 4-1/2 inch square-cornered hinges. I think that both Stanley and Adjustable Clamp made versions. General tools made an adjustable marking gauge that was a bit slower to use – but could also be used to scribe lines for reveals. In all cases they were used to mark the location of hinges on a slab door – and the hinge mortise (butt) was chiseled out with a mallet and a Butt chisel. The idea of the tool was to speed up the process for installing multiple hinges. Nowadays – if you want to speed up the process – you either buy pre-hung doors (where the work is done in a jamb shop) our use one of several router templates and a router with a mortising bit to accomplish the same thing. We try to steer our clients to the pre-hung door option – as a way to save cost. But if they want a certain look (special doors – or Baldwin Brass hinges as an example) we resort to our router jigs. We have an old long Porter Cable that sets up for 3 hinges at once – and an even older Stanley jig that is no longer made (I think that Bosch has one patterned after the Stanley) that we use for 4-hinge doors. For cases where it’s a real special installation with non-standard hinge placement – we use a HingeMate template - but that adds time to the job and cost. Routers, of course cut round-cornered mortises – so if the client doesn’t like this look - a PC corner chisel will square things up.

While pre-hung doors are usually ordered pre-bored for locksets/passage sets - slab doors need more work. We like our lockset boring jig – made by Classic Engineering – which offers different options for different backsets and non-standard diameters. We also get a few clients who want to match (or use) old mortised-in locksets - so then out comes our Porter Cable 513 mortising machine

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