You're one of the only videos that actually shows how to do this with no power tools, despite other videos claiming so. Thanks!

You are the Bob Ross of construction. “Beautiful little hinges.” Making this stuff look so easy. Love the videos!

Pretty much how I do it. I use the razor to score a checkered pattern and break off the wood in chips. Helps to keep the chisel from following the wood grain too deep. Then flip the chisel over and drag it backwards to smooth it out.

This is perfect for a DIY project to replace one broken door when you don't have a workshop with the fancy power tools! Thanks!

Getting spicy around here! Seriously, I applaud your patience dealing with trolls. Always love the content.

Self centering drill bits are great for hinge work

Great video, just did this for the first time a couple of months ago. One thing I would mention for newbies is the proper way to use the chisel. You want the bevel pointed inside of your score.

Thank You Ben!! I always get a few tricks of improving a way to do things in your videos ! Keep up the good work!

Exactly how I do it with MDF doors! perfectly explained In this video!

Always a great job.

Good video, I've got the hinge kit from HD that allows you to cut it with a router, huge time saver.

Dude always got the video I’m looking for

Ben makes it look easy

Helped a bunch! Thank you!

You could always use a forstner bit for the round parts of the hinge, an appropriate size of course, ie 1/2" or 1 1/4".

I love using handtools and this was amazing. I watched it all the way through and then thought to myself "Yeah, but then after all that cutting and chiseling, I'd still have two more hinges to cut for just this door...."

Very nice. It's hard enough to do a good job on a rectangular hinge. I think I would try to avoid the ones with round corners!

Great job!!

I also do this work in a similar way. The one thing I do extra is score the back side of the area (face of door) to the depth of the hinge using the knife and a ruler. That gives me a line to work with to keep the depth of the whole area even and also prevents the wood from splitting (when doing a real wood door).

I like the way you did that. I do it the same way and I bet I go slower. lol Anyway I hope you and your family have a great Christmas. I can't believe it's been another year. Cheers

Yessssss the quarter pipe! Kick flip front rock

You can just trace the hinges with pencil instead of drilling screws to hold it while you’re tracing with your knife. By screwing it down your holes will not be too tight to hold the final screws.

Instead of measuring the 1/4 inch at the center of the parallel line, and eyeballing it, you can measure it at the 2 ends, and draw the whole parallel line accurately. It makes the alignment of the hinge much easier as you have a much longer line to fit.

Looks great. I seem to always run out of patience on the curves when chiseling out hinge or strike plate mortises and end up with those blow outs. But that's why god made wood filler I guess

Ignore those snarky or troll commenters on your videos. We can't all be perfect like them...🙄 As a bit of a do-it-yourselfer, I watch your videos and learn something new every time, even if it's not a project I'm currently working on, knowing that I'll have a reference should such a project ever come my way. Watching your videos I've done mudding and drywall repairs among other things on a couple of houses I never would have attempted prior to your videos. Keep up the great content, and I hope you and your family have a great holiday season!

I like always liked using a Dremel with the small flat base gauge, just raise it the height of the hinge and free hand. The only downside is their battery tools suck and I’ve moved passed plug ins some years back. Now it’s a trim router and jig. Although a chisel will work in a pinch. A centering drill is a should use as it doesn’t allow the hinges to move if you drill out of center as you drive the screws in.

Merry Christmas everyone 🎅

Great video. MDF is a blessing and a curse. But it is good to practice on the old door before attempting the new one. Unless you hang doors for a living. 💪🚪😉

I always try to get square hinges if I'm gonna have to chisel them in. This is essentially how I've done many many doors, I had a router jig but it takes longer to set it up than it does to just do it by hand with a knife and chisel

I have a jig for my router that does this job much quicker and easier. But I have also managed exactly like you show here.

Great method. I'm lazy so I use a spade bit to cut these rounded corners. Marking the center of the radius properly and having a steady hand is recommended. It takes a bit of practice and precision, but once you get the hang of it the results can be very crisp.

That look easy now I need to buy some scratch material to learn where do you buy some

Very good thank you, i’m doing 2 doors at my house today

It moved 'cause you didn't use vix bits... And this is how I do it every time - mostly knife with some chisel work.

I like to score the face of the door for the thickness of the hinge.

Good morning. Thank you for this video. I need to install some doors at my parents house and there are bifold doors up now-so how do i know how far the hinges go into the doors edge if i don’t have one to reference it to? Thank you for any help and suggestion.Also if i am buying new doors to hang and they are not drilled out or no hinges cut into i wont need to know what way the open until i go to put the hinges on then also correct?Have a good day

I’ve done these a couple of times just with my knife. I just feel like I have more control with it and put my chisel away. however you can easily dig your knife too far down.

Beautiful and brass don't go in the same sentence together unless referring to boats or bells....

I didn't know you could break off the blade like that...

Why did you leave that 1/4 on the edge of the hinge?

You make that look do-able, even for me 👍 It makes me twitch when you refresh your blade by whacking the dull one on your project- that could fly into your eye, yikes! 😱 Mine has a little black end cap with a slot in it for snapping off the old blade. Take care Ben My son is a carpenter in Vancouver too - and his name is Ben as well.

Where was this video a month ago when I was at the big box store buying a Ryobi Door Hinge Jig thingy and then almost destroying my old door with a laminate trimmer I didn't know how to use?? 🤣🤣

I am so basic I don’t even have chisel. I was thinking a screw driver tho.

Not for a faint of heart. I am just afraid I’ll run it first time

Hey do you quote on Vancouver drywall jobs?

This is wild.???

No it's not easy... I once owned a home where the previous owner had replaced every door in the house (amoung a host of other things) all by herself. She even bragged about it. Unfortunately she wasn't a carpenter of any kind and it showed. I bought the house for significantly less money than she was asking and then spent the next six months redoing all her work. Fortunately I am a finish carpenter so my DIY project was also my profession. Sometimes it's worth calling a pro.

Don't Canadians use inches in carpentry? What's a millimeter?

Woodworking should have imperfections. Not everything needs to be perfect. As long as it does the job.

I use the old Stanley 99...that I can use a new blade and tap on the nose with a hammer for the depth I want....the snap blades never really worked for me...what ever works for you

Hi Ben, although it's quite off topic, I'd love to hear the story how you downgraded your kids phones to basic fliphones. I have a bunch of kids in sensitive age ranges too.

I noticed that you held your tape at 9" and added 3.5" to get to 12.5" That's deep math for me, I hold the tape at 10" then 3.5" is part of the measure to distance with no 'real' math involved :)

Good luck on the deadline of your projects working like that.

Ok 15 min per hinge though? Seems too long

Q1. Why your doors have mdf on edges? We only have mdf on the faces. I have done ot that way (knife) but its too slow for mr. Q2 how do we show you our work? KZfaq doesnt like links from commenters? I would be happy to

@ about 7:00, you say "a couple of mils," but you mean a couple of millimeters. I don't know if it's a US/Canada thing, but in the US, a mil is 1/1000th of an inch--like a coat of paint.

I could've done that 5x slower than you. Sorry, can't show my work either.

a million percent isn't convincing, maybe a trillion and I will pay attention

Boring! Yawnsvill. I thought that I was going to become unhinged before I got to the end of it. I could NOT have done a better job than you. I would have paid someone like you to do it & then regret it thinking “I could have done that in half the time, half the cost”😂😂😂