117 days ago
by BritBoxmaker |
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A short blog today as its bloody freezing in my workshop. The original state of play with the box was this.
with part of the hinge broken out. The next thing to do is clear out a space for the main body of the new hinge. The body of the new hinge is 13 mm wide 6 mm deep. I marked up the area around the old hinge to be removed.
Cross hatched in white. I am keeping the pin of the hinge in the same relative position, level with the top of the internal lipping on the bottom of the ...
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119 days ago
by BritBoxmaker |
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A busy day and that’s just making the hinge. First thing to do is cut up the material into four pieces.
then mark up the pieces, including where the slot is to be routed.
The next thing to do is route the pin slot. The pin is to be enclosed (not visible at the ends of the hinge). The hinge is 125 mm long, allowing 6 mm of un-routed material at each end, leaves a 113 mm long slot. To set the router table up for this I installed a 45 degree router bit, marked up one piece of...
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120 days ago
by BritBoxmaker |
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We all make mistakes. Yes even me. I’ve been working on the design and build of a box for the best part of a month and a half now. You know I don’t like chunky boxes, the sort with way too thick walls. This box is about 125 mm square x 75 mm high. So I’ve made the wall thickness 6 mm, slightly on the thin side but not a problem for a shell or drop on lid box. Except this one has a wooden clam shell hinge (see first part of blog). This was a mistake
as the consternate...
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