My mother has a drop/fall-front/lid secretary desk that she has asked me to fix for her. My first thought was to install some butt hinges (H-71 from Horton Brasses) to support the writing surface, but upon further investigation, the front surface has an overhang that makes the hinges impossible to use without cutting down the lid. The writing surface was originally hinged using two long wood screws through the desk sides and into the writing surface's endgrain; the holes have wallowed out over time. How would you go about fixing this?
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