You can cut the hinges with a hammer and chisel certainly.
How to cut a hinge in a door.
Trace around the hinge plate with a pencil.
Use a utility knife to trace the outline in the wood.
But you might want to consider using a door hinge jig and a router instead.
Take a hinge and put it on the spine of the door and make sure that it is in line with the pencil line.
Now you can use the dremel to fix the housings of the hinge.
It is a lot quicker and more precise.
Before cutting your door hinge mortise place your hinge on top of the door and outline it with a pencil.
Using a utility knife cut the hinge tracing to a depth of 1 8 inch.
It will save you loads of time particularly if you need to hang more than one door.
For example if the uppermost hinge on the frame sits 10 inches from the.
5 hold a chisel vertically perpendicular to the door at the entry point of the.