• Router Table • Drill Driver • Tablesaw • Masonite • Scrap wood • Screws When it comes to hinges for beautiful boxes, quadrant hinges win, every time. They're as beautiful as they are strong but there's just one catch: they have a nasty reputation for being finicky to install. One of the leading manufacturers of top-notch quadrant hinges, Brusso, offers a which can be used in your router, along with a guide bushing. It clamps in between the box bottom and lid (in the open position), allowing you to make two router passes for each hinge. Super simple.

The trouble is, the result is a hinge mounted to a box with too much of the hinge barrel showing. Conventional woodworking wisdom teaches us that half of the barrel should be buried in the box. Ekaterina Velika Diskografija Chrome. Beacuse of this, I decided to re-engineer this beauty of a template, elongating the routed slots. This results in half of the hinge barrel being buried in the back of the box. Follow along with my step-by-step instructions below, and check out How to Make. Use Masonite to Craft a New Template: I began by cutting a square piece of MDF. Because I knew I'd be using my router table, I made my template blank slightly larger than the brass original.