Luckyway Door Lock Installation Kit Mortising Machine Mortise Jig, Door Lock Hole Opener Kit, Lock Mortiser with 3 Drill Bits for Wooden Doors

This is a great cost effective tool for the DIY. The tool worked great to open the mortise lock opening and cross drilled handle holes as well as striker plate openings. Highly recommend it. Fast service and fair pricing. I especially liked the way the tool clamped on the door, and the ease of setting up slide stops and depth of cut.

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This jig works great to mortise locks as a budget friendly option to the more expensive brands. Durable and the case keeps the parts together

Worked great, heavy duty

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Cutting bit was super dull out of the box. Used as intended, making shallow passes like a mortise router would, with corded drill running 3000 rpm's but it still shuddered and tore the wood fibers instead of actually cutting. I ordered a replacement cutting bit and it was *slightly* better but still more of the same. Advancing the cut was agonizingly slow, unpleasantly jarring, and produced mediocre results at best. Faster and cleaner for me to use an auger bit and sharp chisels. Souber cutting heads are much sharper out of the box, but are not interchangeable with these luckyway cutting heads. To its credit, this unit can plunge deep enough to do Emtek pocket hardware right out of the box, where the Souber requires purchasing an extension to reach that depth. It also feels quite robust and the drill shaft bearings appear to be easily replaceable behind basic snap rings. This unit does not automatically center itself on the door, but does thereby allow drilling for offset mortices if you desire. The basic Souber unit centers itself automatically, but requires purchase of an additional adapter to drill offset. This Luckyway unit has mortise height adjustment independent of the clamping mechanism, the Souber mortise height is set by the position of the door clamps. Depending on your criteria, the Luckyway could be what you want. It is cheaper and has more adjustability and capabilities (on paper) than the basic Souber unit. However, all of this is rendered moot by the abysmal cutting bits. Unless you are very broke, AND very clumsy with hand tools you should either stick to using a basic drill/auger + chisel or pony up and buy a Souber. If you only have a few locks you should still buy the Souber and sell it to recoup most of the $$$ when you are done. At least that will have some resale ability where this Luckyway will have basically zero value on the used market.

Tried to hire a “door person” to come install this complicated Mortise pocket door lock from Rejuvenation, but no one would return my call. Bought this tool and also a Dewalt compact plunge router and together had no issues installing this lock. Probably would’ve spent more hiring someone to install this lock than the tools cost, and now I have these tools to keep. Definitely took my time and went slow. I also bought a 2” x 6” x 8’ Doug fir board and mounted it (vertically) outside the house first to use it as my “test door” and it worked good on that so I moved on to the door inside the house. Lots of sawdust!

1) Tearout: The thing vibrates around and creates a hole even larger than the bits provided, which are too large for most locks. It also means you'll be damaging whatever you try to work on. 2) The clamping mechanism has no arrangement to fit the door edge evenly. It should have stops. I had to make wooden stops to elevate the machine, because the bit sticks out way down into the clamping area. You have to try to clamp the workpiece evenly at both ends while everything is pivoting on the bit. 3) Because only the tips of the clamp can grab the door, you can't rely on the hole to be oriented perpendicularly to the workpiece. 4) It doesn't come with bits that fit standard mortise locks. Even without the tearout making everything wider, I was going to be making compromises. 5) It doesn't include a corner chisel, which is an inexpensive and essential piece. Instead it comes with a straight chisel, which makes things unnecessarily complicated. Of course I already own a corner chisel, but it's a cheap move to save $1USD. The whole thing comes across as a knockoff by someone who doesn't really understand what they're copying and why it works. If you have 1 door to do, you can struggle through it. If you have work to do, skip it. Due to tearout, vibration, and the fact that the machine can't be oriented perpendicularly, along with missing instructions, I cannot use the tool. Probably it is previously-owned.

Me gusto mucho, ayuda muchísimo para hacer los cortes perfectos y rápidos. muy buena calidad y precio.

The toolbox arrived with loose items rattling around. One cutting bit was already attached, and other things leads me to believe this was not a new item. A tool like this should come with instructions. There are still parts that I am not sure what they are for. These are not covered by the lame instructional pictures on this listing. For example, one end of a rod is adjustable in and out (see photo), whereas all the others are fixed. What is this for? Do some people have doors that are thicker at one end or something? The listing pictures state "4 kinds of cutter head". ??? I only got three. Definitely practise before moving on to an actual job. My first attempt with following the instructions "Drill to a certain depth, then move out and then move up" lead to a poor cut. (See photo) I would recommend making very shallow passes the full length of the mortise, with light pressure. It probably takes longer, but makes a more accurate cut. Also, be sure to stand it on a flat surface before tightening the rods up.

When i unboxed it, case was dirty with something stink. Inside of the case. package with extra parts were opened. no ruler.

its not that stable during cutting but it works well.

biene muy bien, mi esposo es carpintero y lo encargo para abrirle caja alas chapas .