Weatherlawyer wrote:
Anyone have any experience with the alternatives to the Trend router
jig? They all look to be either hopelessly complex or highly
unadjustable:

This one at an hundred quid is 70 cheaper than the Trend one but the
apertures for the hinges seems fixed:
http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/...=null&ts=07858

This one looks totally unadjustable:
http://www.tooled-up.com/ZoomPicture...MG=TB27688.jpg

And while I am on the subject of door jigs:
http://www.trendmachinery.co.uk/hjig/

Anyone know why a simple ally extrusion with what must take seconds for
a machine to rout out the appropriate holes and minutes for unskilled
assemblers to stick together the assorted blocks inside, should cost
more than a 110V router?

And a degree of price fixing going on here too.

BTW I am getting myself one this week, so if any lurker wishes me to
knock out a simple jig from it to do the same thing -minus all the
bells and whistles, just e-mail me with the hinge sizes, rebate depths
and the positions he wants the hinges set at.

I'll say it before anyone else does !

I take it as obvious that you have a need for this rather than buying
one for the sake of doing so rather than cutting the rebates out by
hand. I built two doors recently and it didn't take that much time to
prepare the rebates. I'm always concerned with jigs that I have them
set correctly which then requires a test run on a piece of scrap - so
that takes time.

Two questions come to mind - do these jigs angle the rebate bed back
properly and can they be used to prepare the rebate on the door frame ?
The angled bed may not be necessary, but it's how I was taught to do
it - OTOH handling a heavy router at head height on a vertical face in
a jig does not appeal at all.

Rob