I made a corner cabinet recently with coopered doors, and they came out okay. Recently I was asked by a niece to make her a box of a certain size - actually, it should be called a big box or a small chest. Making a box with a flat top seemed kind of boring so I decided to use coopering to make a serpentine top. It's still in progress but you can see where I am now. I was reasonably satisfied with the way the top came out. I chose highly figured wood for the top.
The box is about 20" wide, 14" deep and about 12" high in the front. Joinery is half blind dovetails.
I'm kind of in a quandary about the hinges, however. I can use Brusso stop hinges but the top is a bit big for those hinges. Or I could go with some other hinges and put some other stop mechanism to hold the top open. Any ideas?
She also wants a shallow tray in the box, which is the next step. I have a lot of aromatic cedar in the shop right now so I'll use that for the tray.
Mike
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