Cabinet Door Mounting Jig For Precise Installation

Cabinet Door Mounting Jig is a Kreg Tool jig designed to give you an extra helping hand when installing cabinet doors, so you can handle doors and fasteners without fighting alignment. The jig works for both face-frame and frameless cabinets, which lets you use the same setup across different cabinet constructions in a shop or on site. It handles both left-hand and right-hand doors, so you can move from one door to the next without rethinking your approach. A built-in support arm holds the door while you mount the hinges to the cabinet, which keeps the door steady and lets your free hand focus on driving fasteners accurately. This setup control helps reduce door shifting during installation, so gaps and reveals stay closer to what you planned.

Key Jig Details That Speed Door Work

• The support arm is part of the Cabinet Door Mounting Jig and holds the door while you attach hinges to the cabinet, which stabilizes the door so hinge plates line up more consistently under the bit.
• Nine support arm positions allow you to place doors exactly where you want them, so you can repeat the same overlay or inset setting from cabinet to cabinet without remeasuring each time.
• One dedicated setting for inset doors gives you a fixed reference, so doors that sit inside the face line up more uniformly with surrounding parts of the cabinet run.
• Eight additional support arm positions at 1/4 inch increments let you support overlays up to 2 inches, so you can match a range of common overlay dimensions by clicking to the needed step.
• Two micro-adjustment shims give 1/16 inch, 1/8 inch, or 3/16 inch of movement, which lets you fine-tune a door position after the main setting so reveals can be tightened or opened slightly.

Mounting Workflow And Overlay Adjustment Control

The Kreg Cabinet Door Mounting Jig is built around a support arm that carries the weight of the door during installation, so you can align hinge positions without the door sagging. When you set the arm to one of its nine positions, you pre-establish where the door will sit relative to the cabinet face, which simplifies hitting a target overlay or inset. The single inset setting gives you a go-to position for doors that sit inside the frame, and the eight 1/4 inch steps up to 2 inches of overlay cover typical overlay layouts. During mounting, the two shims allow small vertical adjustments of 1/16 inch, 1/8 inch, or 3/16 inch, so you can shift the door slightly to clean up a joint or even up a pair of doors after checking their relationship.

Using This Jig For Consistent Cabinet Door Layouts

Door Mounting Jig Setup For Different Cabinets

This Kreg Tools cabinet door mounting jig works on both face-frame and frameless cabinets, so one tool handles different construction styles in the same project. On a face-frame cabinet, the support arm position sets how far the door overlaps or sits within the frame opening, which ties your hinge mounting to a consistent visual line around the frame. On frameless cabinets, the same nine positions reference from the cabinet side, so overlay up to 2 inches remains predictable along a full bank of doors. Because the jig supports left-hand and right-hand doors, you can move from one side of a cabinet to the other while holding the same dimensional settings for a symmetrical layout.

Fine-Tuning Door Position For Clean Results

The nine-position support arm on the Cabinet Door Mounting Jig establishes a coarse setting for inset or overlay, and the two micro-adjustment shims supply the fine control that finishes the fit. Using a single shim shifts the door 1/16 inch or 1/8 inch, while stacking both gives 3/16 inch of total adjustability, which is useful when you want to tighten a reveal without remounting hinges. This combination of fixed arm steps and shim adjustments lets you dial in doors so gaps between pairs, or between door and drawer faces, stay more uniform across a run. Because the jig holds the door while hinges are attached, these adjustments directly influence the mounted position, supporting repeatable results from door to door.

Common Questions About This Cabinet Door Jig

Select This Jig For Controlled Cabinet Door Mounting

The Kreg Tool Cabinet Door Mounting Jig, part number KHI-CDIJ, is built to hold doors while you mount hinges on face-frame and frameless cabinets, so alignment depends more on your layout marks than on hand strength. With a support arm offering one inset position and eight 1/4 inch steps up to 2 inches of overlay, along with shims offering 1/16 inch, 1/8 inch, or 3/16 inch adjustment, this jig gives repeatable control over door placement. Choose this cabinet door mounting tool when you want a dedicated setup that supports both left-hand and right-hand doors and keeps reveals more consistent across your cabinet work.