Birthday Gift for my Daughter

Jim Mattheiss

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Hello:

I made a flip open box for my daughters birthday. I saw a similar design somewhere and decided to try to build one. I should have paid a little more attention to the original :doh:

It's made of some Ash I got from Allen last spring. I resawed the Ash down to a proper thickness and started building. This is where the planning would have saved me some hassles.

The corners are mitered but were supposed to be butt jointed and the flip tops were supposed to be full width. The butt joint idea went out the window when I cut the dado for the bottom and neglected to "stop" the dado before the end of the board. The end of the groove would show if I used a butt joint so it became a miter.

I was worried about a tiny triangle splitting when I drilled for the hinge pins so I made the sides inset. I spent a bunch of time/effort getting everything to fit (as well as it does).

The hinge pins are 1/8-th inch dowels - they are small and delicate. One broke during finishing and I had to drill out out and replace.

The handles are some mahogany and are pinned with the same 1/8-th inch dowels for strength.

My daughter likes zebra's so we saw some zebra felt and used it for the bottom pad.

She likes it and was happy.

Cheers

Jim

PS: The tops flip open 180 degrees so the are parallel to the bottom - I had them straight up for the picture.
 

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whoa dude, you still have wood left over from last year?(I still saving that pile of ash since it was so white and clear)

Im waiting on him to get a boatload of quality mahogany. Ill let you know when the boat comes in if you want in on any of it.

Nice gift box, its good to see you doing some woodworking during the cold days.
 
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