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   oldusty | Feb 28, 2009 09:53am | #1

       The hinges you describe sound like what are called Double De mountable , also available in single de mountable where the door only gets a slot for the hinges and the half wrap screws to the inside edge of the face frame.

       There is a special machine for the face and door slotting also there is the router bit only that slots the door. I have the special hinge slot bit and would use it with the single demountable .

    For you the next best thing is to use Amerock style half wrap hinges ,that screw to the back of the door and edge of the face .

                        hope this helps

                                     dusty

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   082250 | Feb 28, 2009 08:17pm | #5

   Dusty,Thanks. I had seen the wrap around hinge in a catalog, and was reasonably certain it was visually the same, and will probably use it for two of the doors. Two of the doors are at about eye level, so I will re-use the existing hinges, for an exact match, as per Dave's suggestion. The other two doors are at about shin level, to a minor difference in appearance will not be a problem. I live in an area where Euro (Blum) hinges just became available in the past year. When I made the switch from wrap arounds to Blum, I had to mail order, and keep a fair amount of stuff in the shop, because of the huge variety of plate and hinge combinations, to deal with jobs like this one.Now I just need to deal with the fingerpull profile. The usual PITA of matching a ten year aged color is actually going to be the easy part of this job.Fred

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   Dave45 | Feb 28, 2009 09:41pm | #7

   Do a couple of mockups if you try to use cup hinges on a profiled door. It can be annoying when the cup hole breaks thru the profile.No, you MAY NOT ask how I know that!!! - lol

   Edited 2/28/2009 1:41 pm by Dave45

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   oldusty | Feb 28, 2009 09:46pm | #8

     I resemble that remark !

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   Dave45 | Feb 28, 2009 11:37pm | #9

   You too, huh?When I hear the phrase "Been there, done that, got the T-shirt", I always add - "And you oughta see my T-shirt collection!!" - lol

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   Dave45 | Feb 28, 2009 05:38pm | #2

   Do your hinges look like this (first pic)?

   I ran into these on '05 while making new cabinets to go into an existing kitchen. When I found out about the special tool needed to make the "T" slot, I removed the piece that goes into the slot, replaced the machine screw with a wood screw, and mounted the hinges (pic 2). It worked like a charm

   
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   oldusty | Feb 28, 2009 06:20pm | #3

                      yup ,  Precisely !

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   082250 | Feb 28, 2009 08:08pm | #4

   Dave, That is the hinge, and I think I will use your solution. Will just be extra careful to get the fit just right, since I'll lose the adjustability. At my first glance at the hinges, I actually thought the screws were the mounting screws. Thanks, sometimes the simple, obvious solution totally escapes me.Fred

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   Dave45 | Feb 28, 2009 09:38pm | #6

   No problem. Glad I could help. In the interest of full disclosure, however, I gotta tell you that it took me a couple of days to figure out that solution. - lol