Baby Jewelry Box
Q.I live in the northwest and my baby daughter (32 yrs old) from Texas was visiting and we went to a store that sells wood products. She wants a jewelry box! We saw several and I have a reasonable idea of what she wants. They were 1/2" thick.The hinges (looked to be 1/2"x3/4") for the lid were put in a slot that was cut into the edge of the wood where only the pivot part of the hinge was showing. Would someone be kind enough to tell me what the slot cutter is actually called and or where I could look for one? I looked in my Grizzly catalog and didn't find anything that I though would work.
A.It is called a slotter, and you can get them at machine shop supply places. Then you will need a mandrel to put them on, and the machine to spin the slotter and put the slot where you want it to be. But if you are making the box you do not necessarily need to use that kind of hinge, you can make a fine jewelry box with a set of regular hinges, or a piano hinge or perhaps even some sort of pivot or something. It would be a would lot easier to mortise the hinges using tools you already have than to tool up for the slot setup. In addition tom the other suggestions in this thread: a) I think I've seen a hinge that gets inserted into the slot cut bya biscuit jointer. This would likely have been at Woodcraft; failing that, Lee Valley. b) There's a simpler type of hinge that works for small boxes. It's just inserted into a drilled hole -- nothing required other than the right sized drill bit.
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