Woodbloke
Sequoia
For the last coupla weeks I've been faffing around in the 'shop attempting to cobble together a smally wee box using some 'old skool' Laburnum oysters with an edge band in Holly:
...and up to that point it was looking fairly presentable. Hinges were next, so I got hold of some of Andrew Crawford's excellent smartHinges which I've used plenty of times before. I downloaded and printed off the copious instructions:
...but despite being super careful, I wasn't careful enough and I simply couldn't get the lid to line up properly; moreover the holly lines were 'out' which made the whole thing look awful. I thought I could re-machine the errant slot so filled it (shown above) and was ready the following day to do the business, but then I had one of those 'eureka' moments and knew deep down that this wasn't going to work. I wasn't going to shove this through the bandsaw so all the Holly at the lid interface was drum sanded off:
...and I wondered if a Cosman hidden wooden hinge could be applied to a sawn off lid box? In all his UToob clips RC uses a solid lid located between the two short sides, so in order to test the hypothesis I knocked up a 'cheap as chips' box in pine, set up the small router table, machined the cove grooves and fitted a solid lump of mahogany dowel to see if the corners and edges lined up exactly:
It's very-ruffty tufty but everything lined up perfick; nothing was out of kilter. I went ahead and made up the RC hinge and fitted it to the box:
...and everything still lined up. Happy days, but I needed to fit a lining to the box as well:
The lid closes snugly over the lining with no obvious pressure point on the hinge. The lining was quite tricky to fit and would be much easier prior to gluing the hinge in place. The technique appears to work so the next job is to replace the Holly interface on the proper box - Rob
...and up to that point it was looking fairly presentable. Hinges were next, so I got hold of some of Andrew Crawford's excellent smartHinges which I've used plenty of times before. I downloaded and printed off the copious instructions:
...but despite being super careful, I wasn't careful enough and I simply couldn't get the lid to line up properly; moreover the holly lines were 'out' which made the whole thing look awful. I thought I could re-machine the errant slot so filled it (shown above) and was ready the following day to do the business, but then I had one of those 'eureka' moments and knew deep down that this wasn't going to work. I wasn't going to shove this through the bandsaw so all the Holly at the lid interface was drum sanded off:
...and I wondered if a Cosman hidden wooden hinge could be applied to a sawn off lid box? In all his UToob clips RC uses a solid lid located between the two short sides, so in order to test the hypothesis I knocked up a 'cheap as chips' box in pine, set up the small router table, machined the cove grooves and fitted a solid lump of mahogany dowel to see if the corners and edges lined up exactly:
It's very-ruffty tufty but everything lined up perfick; nothing was out of kilter. I went ahead and made up the RC hinge and fitted it to the box:
...and everything still lined up. Happy days, but I needed to fit a lining to the box as well:
The lid closes snugly over the lining with no obvious pressure point on the hinge. The lining was quite tricky to fit and would be much easier prior to gluing the hinge in place. The technique appears to work so the next job is to replace the Holly interface on the proper box - Rob
