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

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

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!

I bought this on the basis of price and reviews. I imagine there's better ones out there but I did five doors and didn't have any problems. It does the job.

What a easier way to get the doors done and accurately. We'll worth the money! Glad there was a video because there were no instructions with the product. Set it up once for each step and use on multiple doors before going to the next cut.

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.

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.

I used this on really soft pine and still got a clean cut.

This product worked like a charm. You do have to take it slow but it will be no problem if you’re careful. We used it to finish three 100 year-old doors and three modern replicas. All doors are 1 and 3/8 inches thick but they’re still works great.