Jack Hutchinson
03-21-2008, 8:36 AM
With advice from SMC I'm working out the details of a service medal display case for my WW II vet father.
He wants it covered - and the layout he prefers will make the box about 14" wide and 12" high.
I've run into a couple of questions I'm hoping to get some help with from this forum.
I'm thinking of making a pair of raised panel doors - each about 6" x 10". They'd be set inside the frame. Very close behind them is a pane of glass protecting the medals.
I can make one door overlap the other - maybe complementary ogees on the two. But how can I hold the overlapping door closed. Need not be locked, just not swinging freely - so when you close it it stays closed. I anticipate only a narrow (1/4") ledge the doors close against. Some kind of toggle at the top edge? Is there a clean way to do that?
Also - for raised panel doors that small - any advice on bits to cut the stiles, rails and panels? Freud makes a mini set - is that a good way to go? Whiteside also has a set.
Thanks - I'm mostly a reader of this forum, but learn a lot and greatly appreciate the friendliness and support that members show one another.
He wants it covered - and the layout he prefers will make the box about 14" wide and 12" high.
I've run into a couple of questions I'm hoping to get some help with from this forum.
I'm thinking of making a pair of raised panel doors - each about 6" x 10". They'd be set inside the frame. Very close behind them is a pane of glass protecting the medals.
I can make one door overlap the other - maybe complementary ogees on the two. But how can I hold the overlapping door closed. Need not be locked, just not swinging freely - so when you close it it stays closed. I anticipate only a narrow (1/4") ledge the doors close against. Some kind of toggle at the top edge? Is there a clean way to do that?
Also - for raised panel doors that small - any advice on bits to cut the stiles, rails and panels? Freud makes a mini set - is that a good way to go? Whiteside also has a set.
Thanks - I'm mostly a reader of this forum, but learn a lot and greatly appreciate the friendliness and support that members show one another.