When I started the “Just for Fun” series, I never thought that I could keep it going this long!! But here I am at my fiftieth “Fun-type” blog… Many Thanks to all of you, for the encouragement and interest my Friends!!
To my astonishment, You have made this the third “Most Discussed” blog series on Lumberjocks!!
And now, back to the Fun…
We left off last time with the latest box freshly parted, top from bottom, and awaiting sanding…
The sanding was achieved, and I decided to start some wooden hinges. Lest you think, that these things come natural, the first set split terribly on me…
I don’t know whether I was being too cute or too quick but I failed to follow the correct steps… I actually went back to my own blog on the subject to refresh my memory… It’s been over a year since I made a set like this…
I was a little discouraged by the failure… and then I watched Steve in Marin’s video on his attempt to make the old ladder and descending climber toy… I got diverted trying that out for a couple hours… Made a quick ladder, and “walker”... However, the ladder I made had round rungs and clearly, this does not work!! The construction was quick and simple… I found a couple long narrow scraps…
Studies have shown, that the human eye is very good at halving things, and I made a mark on both ends of the pieces… 
And then connected the dots…
A quick measurement, and some division, and I set the dividers to 2 1/2” and walked off the spacing…
Drilled the holes and cut the rungs…
Even though this didn’t work, I thought one of the key measurements could be made in place…
I’ll very likely return to this and break out the popsicle sticks to use as rungs later… but it was time to return to some serious fun…
Thus came about hinge attempt part deux…
These should work…
Next step is to close the box up for good by pinning the corners with 1/8” dowel… To this end, I cut a “platform” piece out of my abundance of particle board… This will keep the scalloped edges level on the drill press…
I’m hoping to glue and pin the hinges on today… I haven’t yet decided what I’m going to make for a finger pull for the front… hmmm…
Anyway, for the fiftieth time, don’t forget to have some Fun my Friends!! :)
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