The drawing shows a jig I use for quickly locating the screw holes for cabinet pulls. In the application illustrated here, the jig is being used on a drawer front. The notch at the top of the jig is aligned with a pencil mark on a piece of tape that indicates the center of the drawer. Drawers of different depths require their pulls to be placed at different distances from their top edges — hence the series of holes.
To use the jig for locating pulls on cabinet doors, I rotate the jig 90° and align its edge with the door’s top edge or some molded detail in the door. The jig is laid out with equal distances from its sides to the pull holes, allowing it to be flipped to do right-hand or left-hand doors.
—Mark Hallock, Capitola, CA
Edited and illustrated by Charles Miller
From Fine Homebuilding #71
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More tips with ugly-ass messy-looking outdated line drawings. Yuck. Please update your graphics. These are embarrassing.
Nice tip.
Line drawing makes it clear. No need for fancy artwork.
marleyjune has complained about 'outdated line drawings' at least 10 times. A lot of ideas start out as a pencil hand sketch. I see no problem with them. They will never be outdated. What I am seeing is a one-person mission to get rid of them. More are for them than against them. Give it up.
As with many of the tips offered here, this was an innovative idea 20 years ago. Today, I'd just drop by the Big Orange Box and pick up a ready-made marking jig. They range from $0.99 to $13.52, less than 15 minutes worth of your labor if you're charging a reasonable rate.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Liberty-Align-Right-Large-Cabinet-Hardware-Installation-Template-AN6516C-CL-U/308682642
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Liberty-Align-Right-Cabinet-Hardware-Installation-Template-Set-AN0251C-CL-U/206598261
https://www.homedepot.com/p/NewAge-Products-Home-Kitchen-Drawer-Handle-Installation-Template-80261/315591769
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Rok-Knob-Handle-Pull-Drill-Mounting-Template-For-Cabinet-Doors-And-Drawers-ROKTMP/302146610
As with many of these tips, this one might have made sense 20 or 30 years ago. These days, I'd just drop by the nearest building supply store and pick up a ready made plastic screw hole marking jig- they stock several versions, from $0.99 to $13.50. That's less than 15 minutes worth of labor if you're charging a reasonable rate.