How about putting a layer of felt around the sides on top. that way when the box is closed. It don't go BANG! every time the box is closed and makes a nice look there also.
At 11:31 AM 10/27/2007, you wrote: >Putting a thirty inch piano hinge on a toy box lid I am completing for the >niece for Christmas. >If I put the hinge flat on the back of the box and the back edge of the lid, >(easiest) the hinge is exposed, on the back of the box of course. >If I hide the hinge, fold it in half, putting it on the top edge of the back >of the box, and under the lid, (hardest) the lid doesn't lay flat any >longer. >OK, it is only a sixteenth of an inch, but I did try hard to make the lid to >lay flush and flat. >I could remove a sixteenth of an inch off the top edge of the back, I >suppose, but don't really want to go there. >So, is one way correct and the other not, or is it just a matter of >preference? > >Keith Patterson ><mailto:KPatter2%40TampaBay.RR.Com>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Tim trouble "Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance." --Sam Brown Blindeudora list owner. To subscribe or info: http://www.freelists.org/webpage/blindeudora
