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   KeithNewton | Oct 13, 2009 10:07pm | #1

   For a single, or pair of doors, If you can hold off gluing the case until you get the doors hung, it helps to be able to bring the top down on the doors while they are held in place.

   I normally use cranked rather than straight, and like the ones with a short straight bottom piece. I then mortise the doors and screw on that part. Then the top carcass part.

   I save the bottom last. With the doors hanging by the top, and just sitting on the bottom part, I slide them into alignment, and capture them with little thin battens held with two sided carpet tape, which has the vellum started, leaving a tab, which can be tugged out from under the strip when everything is just right, or as good as it can be.

   Lift the doors off the bottom hinge which is captured. I then screw it down with one screw, remove the holding strip. Put the doors back on, to make sure they are still right, then scribe around the final leaf, and mortise it in.

   Long runs of multiple doors are another thing.