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Why a door hinge sits proud after you cut the recess
The router bit is round. The hinge leaf is square. That mismatch is why a new butt hinge often stands above the door or jamb after you think the job is done.
A hinge mortise cut with a trim router or a hinge jig follows the radius of the bit. The corners of the pocket stay rounded. When you drop in a rectangular hinge, the leaf cannot sit down into those corners. It rocks, it sits proud of the face, and the door binds or the gap looks wrong. Chiselling those four corners by eye is slow and easy to overshoot on a painted door.
A spring corner chisel is made for that one cut. You stand the blade in the rounded corner and strike the handle. The spring-loaded blade squares the pocket so the leaf lies flat. It does not replace a licensed carpenter for a structural door, and it is not a full chisel set. It is the tool for the last millimetres of a hinge recess.
What you are buying on this page
This landing page promotes one product: the Carbatec Double Spring Corner Chisel, $39.90 AUD. The wider catalogue stays on the shop if you need a mallet to strike it or a flush-cut saw for the next job. The button above goes to this chisel, not to a mixed list of saws and knives.
How an order works
Add the chisel to your kit, enter an Australian delivery address, then pay on PayPal. PayPal sends you a payment confirmation. Keep that receipt if you later ask about a return. As the seller we handle Australian Consumer Law guarantees; any manufacturer warranty stays with Carbatec.
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