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Hinges for Ring Box

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I'm making a wooden ring box for a friends wedding. It will be small, fitting only the two rings. I need to find nice hinges, either hidden or decorative, for a small box like that. Any suggestions? Anyone have experience with this and can recommend a set of tiny hinges like that?

Joe

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Walnut burl veneer - rookie question

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Unless you count the adhesive iron on tape, I've never used real wood veneer, but through a series of unfortunate events, I'm now restoring a very old bedroom vanity. This vanity is primarily built of Walnut, with Walnut burl veneer on the drawer fronts, that is chipped, buckled and needs replaced. I've removed the old stuff (hide glue) and need to order replacement veneer and put it on. All the pieces will be about 8"x30". I don't own a vacuum press, or any specialized veneering tools. I don't anticipate this is something I'll do often, and I don't want to buy a vacuum system, but I'm ok with smaller tools and supplies. So questions; Will I need to soften and flatten the wood before using? Is it likely I'll need to patch holes in the veneer? What glue, application method do you recommend?
I know Youtube can be helpful and I'll certainly watch some vids, but I'm hoping for some real people/real world feedback. I haven't bought anything yet, so if there is a recommended source for the burl or materials, I'd appreciate it. Thank you!

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Which Folding Ruler ?

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So just looking for your recommendations on a folding ruler and where to find it.
I like using the ol' 72" folding rulers for a multitude ofreasons. Not exclusively though. Sometimes a tape measure is best for speedespecially formeasuring lengths greater than the typical72inches of a folding ruler.
I have two of these. One that I bought some 10-15 years or more back (and recently misplaced around here
)and the other was my fathers that he used for decades. Some markings are a little worn, but it still functions well.

I wasat an orange box store yesterday checking out their supply of folding rulers. Two of them the 6"extension wouldn't budge. On another two the extension just slipped to full extension under gravity, so won't hold position. (I guess I could do something to make them stick, but still.)Another type doesn't have an extension. Another type with an extension, but the folds stop at intervals ofsomething like 5 3/4" - like who wantsto deal with that when trying to measure that plus the extension? IMHO they are all crap.
When I can get to themI'm going to try the local hardware store, Menards, and Lowes - in that order too.

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Source For Lexan and Acrylic Glue (a.k.a. Solvent)

I wanted to incorporate bit guards and blade guards into the various jigs and fences I've been building lately, so I went to the orange big box DIY store the other day, and looked over their inventory of acrylic sheets and poly-carbonate sheets (sold as brand name Lexan.)

Just to clarify, acrylic is okay to use, and it's usually widely available in 1/4" thickness, but it's not shatter proof, so if you can get your hands on some 1/4" Lexan, you're MUCH better off. Lexan is a far superior guard material, because it is virtually shatter-proof, but it can be difficult to find in the 1/4" thickness.

There were plenty of smaller 2' x 4' acrylic pieces available, but the only Lexan they had was similar sized 1/8" pieces that seemed a bit too floppy.

And I cannot stress this enough, THEY DID NOT STOCK THE GLUE/SOLVENT MOST RECOMMENDED FOR CONNECTING TOGETHER PIECES OF ACRYLIC OR LEXAN (neither did the blue big box DIY store, by the way.)

So I picked up the acrylic (and no glue), but was determined to find a better source for both.

Later, I started Googling. What I found in almost every forum thread on the subject of plastic sheets and the glue to use with them, was that a person in the market for that stuff, should just Google "plastics retailers" or "plastics distributors", followed by "in the XXXX area", where "XXX" was the area where you live.

I gave it a try, and lo and behold, a ton of listings came up. I started calling them from nearest to furthest, and on about my fourth try (the first three didn't sell retail), I found what I would consider THE PERFECT SUPPLIER.

Their name is Laird Plastics. They have locations all over, and most of them have nice little retail shops right in the office end of their building. They not only had poly-carbonate sheets of pretty much any thickness, but the pleasant counter guy was happy to look out in the warehouse for a smaller cut-off at a discount, AND STOCKED NEATLY ON A SHELF, they had the Weldon #4 acrylic solvent that's most recommended (I bought the 4.5 ounce canister, but there were pints there too), along with the applicator bottle, and even different sizes of special purpose drill bits specifically for drilling plastic.

So if you're in the Providence, RI area, like me, they're located at 380 Jefferson Blvd., Warwick, RI.

Maybe I'm too easily excited about this sort of thing, but I'm THRILLED to have a plastics supplier so close. Hope you'll be too.

Update 4/8/26: only just discovered Laird Plastics no longer has a Rhode Island location, but I think orders can be placed online at their site.

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Mortise question

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Building a small table to go between chairs. Legs are 1 3/4" square with 3 drawers in the front. Just built a mortising jig which I'll use for the rails using the router. I need to make horizontal mortises on the front insides of the front legs to accept the drawer dividers which are 1 3/4" wide to match the legs. They are 3/4" thick. No problem making those tenons, but I'm drawing a blank on the best way to make the horizontal mortises. Would like to use my router instead of Forster bits with the drill press and cleaning up with a chisel. My mortising jig isn't set up to do this. Any ideas?

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So you're hauling material

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This is a video I watched that gave me some great insight and ideas on using ratchet straps I have never seen before. I hope it helps someone out.

https://youtu.be/4FFBoepdx3k?si=0iBNH50Q8M6b05hd

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A quick project

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I've gotten to like walnut more, so I thought I would make something quick with a maple accent.


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