Soliciting your ideas. I frequently build small boxes out of materials
1/4" or less. This prevents me from using most of the common methods of
hinging the top. Any ideas on how to hinge something that's 1/8" or so?
I'm thinking leather might work. Which side out (is it just a matter of
preference?)? What glue to use?

Smaug Ichorfang formulated the question :
Soliciting your ideas. I frequently build small boxes out of materials
1/4" or less. This prevents me from using most of the common methods of
hinging the top. Any ideas on how to hinge something that's 1/8" or so?
I'm thinking leather might work. Which side out (is it just a matter of
preference?)? What glue to use?

Isn't that the same question you asked 4 days ago?
At any rate, you might get more responses if you asked in
rec.woodworking

Mekon

Mekon wrote in
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Smaug Ichorfang formulated the question :
Soliciting your ideas. I frequently build small boxes out of
materials 1/4" or less. This prevents me from using most of the
common methods of hinging the top. Any ideas on how to hinge
something that's 1/8" or so? I'm thinking leather might work. Which
side out (is it just a matter of preference?)? What glue to use?

Isn't that the same question you asked 4 days ago?

No, it's a similar question to one I *answered* the other day. This
question deals with stock much thinner. Too thin for barrel- or barb-style
hinges, or hinges using screws or pins.

At any rate, you might get more responses if you asked in
rec.woodworking

Thanks, guess Ill do that.

Smaug Ichorfang wrote on 14/11/2007 :
Mekon wrote in
:

Smaug Ichorfang formulated the question :
Soliciting your ideas. I frequently build small boxes out of
materials 1/4" or less. This prevents me from using most of the
common methods of hinging the top. Any ideas on how to hinge
something that's 1/8" or so? I'm thinking leather might work. Which
side out (is it just a matter of preference?)? What glue to use?

Isn't that the same question you asked 4 days ago?

No, it's a similar question to one I *answered* the other day. This
question deals with stock much thinner. Too thin for barrel- or barb-style
hinges, or hinges using screws or pins.

Sorry, I realised my mistake a moment before I saw your reply.
Mea culpa


Mekon

Mekon wrote in
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Smaug Ichorfang wrote on 14/11/2007 :
Mekon wrote in
:

Smaug Ichorfang formulated the question :
Soliciting your ideas. I frequently build small boxes out of
materials 1/4" or less. This prevents me from using most of the
common methods of hinging the top. Any ideas on how to hinge
something that's 1/8" or so? I'm thinking leather might work.
Which side out (is it just a matter of preference?)? What glue to
use?

Isn't that the same question you asked 4 days ago?

No, it's a similar question to one I *answered* the other day. This
question deals with stock much thinner. Too thin for barrel- or
barb-style hinges, or hinges using screws or pins.

Sorry, I realised my mistake a moment before I saw your reply.
Mea culpa


Mekon




No biggie.

Smaug Ichorfang wrote:


No, it's a similar question to one I *answered* the other day. This
question deals with stock much thinner. Too thin for barrel- or barb-style
hinges, or hinges using screws or pins.


The jeweler's slotting saw's kerfs for the barbed hinges are .022",
..035" and .046" depending on the hinge and the type of wood used. Even
1/8" thick stock should accommodate the barbed hinges.

--
Jack Novak
Buffalo, NY - USA

Nova wrote in news:LuI_i.2725$Z01.955@trndny01:

Smaug Ichorfang wrote:


No, it's a similar question to one I *answered* the other day. This
question deals with stock much thinner. Too thin for barrel- or
barb-style hinges, or hinges using screws or pins.


The jeweler's slotting saw's kerfs for the barbed hinges are .022",
.035" and .046" depending on the hinge and the type of wood used.
Even 1/8" thick stock should accommodate the barbed hinges.


Might be worth another look then.

If you us leather, you'd probably want to have a lip extending from the lid
so it would sit straight when closed. Or, make the hinges straps that go
around the box and become the catch also.

--
Mike
Watch for the bounce.
If ya didn't see it, ya didn't feel it.
If ya see it, it didn't go off.
Old Air Force Munitions Saying
IYAAYAS
"Smaug Ichorfang" wrote in message
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Soliciting your ideas. I frequently build small boxes out of materials
1/4" or less. This prevents me from using most of the common methods of
hinging the top. Any ideas on how to hinge something that's 1/8" or so?
I'm thinking leather might work. Which side out (is it just a matter of
preference?)? What glue to use?