Souber DBB 5 Minute Morticer JIG1 Door Lock Mortiser Kit 19mm 22mm 25mm

Great product. Had a dozen or so mortise locks to install. This was a great jig for accomplishing that task. Bits worked perfectly. It is a simpler and lest costly system than a plunge router set up.

This mortiser isn’t perfect by any means, but what tool is. They have developed a quality tool at a reasonable price point that gets the job done. Just takes a little patience and prep. I am so satisfied with the product.

Let me first clarify that I am a trim carpenter. If you are like me and in the business of working with doors and have to deal with pocket doors and mortice locks on a regular basis, get this tool. If you are just doing it for yourself and have one lock to install, get a spade bit, a chisel, mark your lines and hope you don’t drill out the side of the door. As for me, it has been a game changer. The amount of time and hassle that it saves is tremendous. Once you get used to the setup, it is a precise way of installing mortice locks in a quick and simple fashion. Watch the videos and decide for yourself, but I wish I had bought it years ago.

About what one should expect for the price. Bought it to install eight or ten locks, so far works well, not 100 % accurate but close. High speed drill is a must. I plan on trying to mortise and tenon a door and gate with it. If mortising often, I would probly get the $1k machine.

I needed to mortise 7 pocket doors with unique hardware. 7" tall, 11/16" wide, 4" deep mortise. All doors turned out perfect. I liked using my own drill so I did not have to pay for another tool. Self centering on door edge. Fully adjustable vertical and with depth stop. With drill, extension, and rubber grips, lots of leaverage and room for error. Pleasantly surprised how square and true the finished product ended up being. Positive grip on finished door. I did need to buy 11/16 bit and extention. The bits look like something from a machinist toolbox. Lots of carbide. I did chip a tooth on the new door. I was able to finish still. I had professional local door companies pass on the complexity of the mortise. I was very happy I was able to do it myself it turned out great.

This saves so much time for mortise locks. We first used it installing an Emtek mortise lock for a pocket door. The setup was quick and easy and came with everything needed except the drill of course.

I used this tool to mortise in very large Baldwin locksets into our 2.5" thick front doors. The three negatives I have with the tool are that the springs left an imprint on the latch face of our door, there is not enough width adjustability to mortise catches on wide door frames, and the time it takes to set the tool up often takes as long as just using chisels and a hammer. The bottom line, I'd still recommend this tool, especially when mortising large or antique style locksets. I believed I purchased the offset tool, but wasn't able to use it due to the width limitations. I mortise screen door locksets faster with chisels, than the time it would've taken me to use this tool.

This product is imported from the UK and is very well made. But just as important , customer service and support is amazing. Not only does MBA USA offer great service but so does Souber Tools the manufacturer. An extremely pleasant surprise when your use to buying things “Made in China” with little to no service or support.