This ensures you don t splinter the wood on the face of the door as you blast through drilling from just one side.
How to drill a door for a mortise lock.
In the early days the pocket was cut out using a brace and bit.
Push the keep on and mark a pencil line all the way round the hole inside for the latch.
Use the 10mm chisel to square the hole up cutting at the top and bottom first.
Fit the latch and faceplate into the door.
With the large hole cut it s now time to drill the small 1 inch hole in the edge of the door.
The brace is a u shaped steel hand tool that has a wood cap on one end and a bit chuck on the other.
Step 11 install the strike plate photo by david carmack.
How to cut a mortise for a deadbolt lock.
Use a 7 8 inch spade bit to drill two partially overlapping 5 8 inch deep holes centered above and below the midpoint inset.
Use the chisel to deepen the outline marks.
Create the mortise using a router attachment remove the wood between the pencil lines drawn on the door edge to create a mortise for the faceplate.
Carefully remove the timber inside the lines using the same technique as for the door latch.
You want to drill part way into one side of the door stop and then start to drill from the other side.
Make a series of closely spaced cuts into the mortise area.
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Square up the sides of the mortise with a chisel if necessary.
Transfer the positions of the top and bottom of the mortise lock body to the edge of the door.
It is not a difficult procedure and all you really need is a power drill with the appropriate bits and maybe.
Remove the keep and drill a 16mm hole about 10mm deep.
It will show you how you can drill out the stump of a mortice lock allowing you to get past the lock entirely.
Mark the area around the strike plate that you want to install flush with the wood.
Trace the outline of the area.
This lock can certainly be picked but what if you don t know how or you don t have anything on hand that can serve as a good lock pick.
Hold the strike plate over the mortise and score its outline with a utility knife.