Workers Of Wood

I was experimenting with wooden hinges and tried to make an all hinge box. The box corners, lid hinge, end handles and latch are all hinges. Here is what I came up with made out of a aromatic cedar board.
It has 2 hidden compartments,one inside under false bottom and one on the bottom, to stash the cash.
Herb

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Great work as always Herb . I haven’t seen that done before

Very nice. Two questions:
Did you use a box/finger joint jig to get the spacing? and...
How did you drill the pin holes?

Cherryville Chuck wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 9:24 pm Very nice. Two questions:
Did you use a box/finger joint jig to get the spacing? and...
How did you drill the pin holes?

I used my homemade box joint jig,and at the time my new Incra Wooden Hinge boring jig.
https://incra.com/router_system_accesso ... after.html
The jig is set up for a #40 dia. bit for the pin, and I used that to drill a pilot hole ,then enlarged the hole to 1/8' for a wooden dowel pin.
Here are the pictures of the build.
Herb

Here are some more.

Here are the last ones

Herb Stoops wrote: ↑Tue Feb 08, 2022 2:03 pm I was experimenting with wooden hinges and tried to make an all hinge box. The box corners, lid hinge, end handles and latch are all hinges. Here is what I came up with made out of a aromatic cedar board.
It has 2 hidden compartments,one inside under false bottom and one on the bottom, to stash the cash.

nice work HErb.. well executed too....

Awesome...!

So you just have to pick a size that matches one of the 4 in the jig. Where would you find a #40 drill bit long enough to drill across all those pin holes? I have a 1/8" by 12" installers bit like you do but I don't know if they go any smaller than that. I made a drawer under my built in oven that is only about 2 to 2.5" deep and I put a hinged lid on it using wooden hinges but I took the cowardly way out by making individual teeth and gluing them to the carcass. That way I could drill each one separately.

# 40 was the standard pilot bit for Boeing and I bought some long ones years ago at Boeing surplus. But a bit came with the kit and was the same for all diam. of hinges bushings.
Here is a source for bits only:
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=Aircra ... its&ia=web
Herb

Those are really unique boxes Herb. I like the look and definitely don't see it everyday.

Holy crap. These guys make bits up to 12 feet long. https://www.drillbitwarehouse.com/store ... drill-1-16
Their prices are quite reasonable. $3.02 for a 12" long 1/16" bit.

That's taking "Hinge" to the extreme. So when there's nothing in it, can you hinge it flat and slide it into a low space, like under a bookshelf?

A very interesting box. I have one of the hinge jigs, but only used it twice so far, and definitely not to the extreme that you have. Just a few small hinges that I mortised into the lid and back edge of some boxes, as if they were metal hinges. Then glued them into place.

Charley

No, Chuck, not collapsible, Hmmmm Have to think about that.
Herb