Hinged box diy

How to Make a Simple Wooden Box With Mortised Hinges: This video details how to make a simple wooden box with mortised hinges. These little projects are great for jewelry boxes, keepsake boxes or just to use a place to dump your pockets at the end of the day. The video also shows you that installing mo…

The Easiest Way to Build a Box!: If you want to make a box that looks like a professional craftsman hand made it, but don't want to spend hours measuring and hand fitting, just follow these instructions and you'll not only impress your friends, you'll even impress yourself! All of …

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Wooden boxes are a popular project for beginning woodworkers, and making one will teach you many basic techniques that you can apply to other projects. You can construct your box to be simple and elegant, utilitarian, or highly stylized...

6 Easy Tinkering Hinges: Sometimes you want to use a metal hinge to make a door. Sometimes it's either too heavy, or just overkill. Take a look at the video, or read on to see some alternatives. These are particularly useful if you're making a temporary cardboard constructi…

Splined miters and a flip-top lid add character to a simple project

The Easiest Way to Build a Box!: If you want to make a box that looks like a professional craftsman hand made it, but don't want to spend hours measuring and hand fitting, just follow these instructions and you'll not only impress your friends, you'll even impress yourself! All of …

Picture of Making Simple Wooden Hinges

Pictured left is the box I'll be showing you how to build on this page. This was a fun project and only took a few hours to complete. This small wooden box doesn't have any complex joints and is the perfect project for a beginning woodworker. The...

Build a simple hexagon shaped tile top keepsake box with this fun tutorial. It's a great way to use up tile scraps AND wood scraps in one fun project. It's also simple to make a rectangle or square as well!

How to make a wooden box with an inlay from copper pipe!

This lovely low chest is the happy replacement for our towering filing cabinet of boxy proportions. With nearly four feet of space for hanging files, this beauty will replace our entire four-drawer filing cabinet. With the addition of a sliding tray for keeping office supplies handy, and a built-in fabric bulletin board for posting

Rob creates a storage chest with the lid supported by the Sugatsune Aileron Lift-Assist Soft-Close Hinge Set.

Here’s a method that’ll give you great results and keep the lid aligned perfectly as you cut each side.

Two uncommon but affordable bits in the router table do the heavy lifting

How to Make a Simple Wooden Box With Mortised Hinges: This video details how to make a simple wooden box with mortised hinges. These little projects are great for jewelry boxes, keepsake boxes or just to use a place to dump your pockets at the end of the day. The video also shows you that installing mo…

Create a DIY storage box for toys and clothes with bamboo, MDF, oak. Ideal for home organization, it's elegant, durable, and customizable.

I could kick myself A few months ago I spent many many hours trying to perfectly align a set of "box joint hinges" for my project " A Little Cabinetree"...

This simple wooden box looks really expensive and can be the perfect woodworking gift. It takes very little material, but makes the most of it with incredibl...