Another Weighted Base Box
This is the second weighted-base box I made. You can read about the first one here. The weight described is a lump of lead that is hidden in the box: there are two "bases" set in grooves in the box and in between the two bases is a bit of lead I cast to be a close fit. The reason for making the second version is that I wanted one with an attached lid.
Like the first one, the box is made of Padauk with maple for the lid and bases.
This photo shows what the box looks like inside and you can see the body of the hinge mechanism, prepared using a version of my box hinge jig, which I've also used for several other boxes including my tea caddies. One of the interesting things about this box in particular was that I stupidly forgot to fit the lid when gluing the box together, so I ended up oiling the two parts separately.
This type of lid depends on the lid being captive in the body. To fit the lid after assembly required a bit of lateral thinking, but I found a fairly simple solution.
The pins sit in fairly deep holes in the lid. I used a couple of springs (taken from some old biros) in the hole behind the pins. As a result the pins can be pushed into the hole and then the lid slid into place. As the pins lined up with the holes in the body, the springs pushed the pins into the body and the lid became (permanently) captive.
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