Hello friends,
I'm working on my first wood hinge box and following along closely with your DVD. However, I'm struggling to get the wood hinge working laid out correctly on the router on a test piece. It's 1/4" thick which is the same as the finished box will be.
I've attached a layout as I believe it should work. Is this accurate? My questions are:
- Should the center line of the dowel be in line with the top of the back as I've shown?
- Does is matter how far the dowel pin is from the edge. Should it be farther in or does it matter?
- I assume the top and back are cut with the same router settings. The video didn't show that but that must be true.
- When Rob cut his back in the video, he had a small lip on the back side which my diagram wouldn't have. Trying to understand this. Please 2nd attachment.
I've through through this more and drawn this since my unsuccessful attempts so I think I'll head back to the shop and try to replicate this. This has clarified this somewhat in my head.
Thank you all very much.
Michael