argh, screwup need advice

Brikp · 2004-12-09T16:27:43+00:00

OK - Thanks all who have previously responded to my posts as I seek advice on expanding my woodworking skills.I think I may have made a screw-up. It could be easy to fix or a real pain, causing me to almost start from scratch.Making a piano bench from mahogany. Everything is cut and glued up and finishing has begun. The bench has storage under the seat. The seat is 1/2" larger than the base on all sides.My issue will be in attaching the hinges.Looking at the bench, from the top down, no lid attached it looks like this....(This is my attempt at ASCII art, use a proportional font like courier to look at it.) _____ _____| |___________________________| || |___________________________ ||_____| |_____| || || || || || || || || || || || || _____ _____| |___________________________| || |___________________________ ||_____| |_____|For the ASCII challenged. The legs are mortised to the sides, the sides have a dado holding a bottom (Like a drawer bottom). The sides mortise into the legs in the middle of the leg. FWIW - I have already applied one coat of BLO. The thing looks really nice.Now, if I attached a regular old hinge to the back side it will bind on the legs as they protrude ~ 3/8" beyond the back side.OK, so how do I hinge a lid to the top?My options:1) Hinge to the leg tops (would look bad and the screws will probably not hold in the end grain for long)2) Find some type of offset hinge (Lee valley catalog may have something, but nothing jumped out at me so far)3) re-do the skirts so they are flush with the outside edge of the legs (I am already in finishing, everything is glued up)4) Filler strip on the hinge side only (Could look bad and...

Dec 09, 2004 21 Replies

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Larry Jaques 21 years ago

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:50:48 -0500, "Brikp" calmly ranted:

Heh heh heh. That's what I thought. Good cover, dude.

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larrybud2002 21 years ago

hardware to

others have

FWIW, I measured the opening in my piano bench and full open is 60 degree from horizontal.

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