Thread: Looking for a project idea to use these one pound brass hinges

Buy her more jewelry and get to work on that box

Lingerie cabinets are pretty popular right now...

Hmm, Jewellery cabinet that size would demand filling with bling - nuh!

Lingerie cabinet that size - I kinda think she'd take that the wrong way, like some kind of hint as to her own size - I might not live to share the pics.

They look like they belong on a treasure chest. And that chest could hold a bounty of new tools....

Make a rustic picture frame and mount them in it as a bit of art. One closed, one partly open, one fully open, one with a back view, the last one polished. A nice timber background to mount them on.

Alan...

I would put it into an educational toy like a block puzzle for enquiring minds - very tactile.

Knock a bit of wall out and use them to hang some serious double doors. Or just do a serious doors in the regular entryway. Doors are one of those things that people take for granted and settle for plain and cheap but they dont have to be that way and indeed in many parts of the world even the poorest homes have fancy painted doors.

Google is your friend, but search carved doors, and intarsia doors and arabesque doors and inlaid doors for starters and you'll get some pictures for inspiration. Good doors are a rarity in Oz, but how any woodworker can look at a plain old door everytime they return home confounds me.

Give them to Keith1 for his model railway carriage?

They don't make em like that anymore!

Yes a pair of doors.

Yeah, leaving the years of gunk on part of them for effect. Hmm, need someone arty to help with that idea, but that starts the cogs going Al, thanks heaps.

He'd (Keith1) be welcome to a couple but methinks still way too big.

Originally Posted by Bendigo Bob

Yep, they weigh one pound each. Got six of them (two are missing the pin but that shouldn't be too ahrd to reproduce). they came off an old railway guards van we had in a house over 20 years ago. I reckon a hundred years old judging by many layers of paint and gunk on them) I forgot i had them and need to either think of something to do with them or will probably give them away to someone who has a better idea than anything i came up with so far

(SLIGHTLY too big for a jewellery box for the missus They are 90 x 95 mm in size, nearly 5mm thick leaves too, as I said one pound of brass in each one)

Help guys????

gift them to a railway historical society for use in a restoration project?

sell them for their scrap or epay "value"

mount a set of tool doors on your shed walls -- requires that your walls be strong enough to carry the weight

use them as feet on a cabinet or chest of drawers

use them to hold a Kenov inspired cabinet above its stand

clean them up till they dazzle, then encase each in on a glass topped display box (or picture frame) and sell them as unique one of a kind historical reminders of the past

There awesome! I love old industrial and over engineered stuff like that. What ever you make they should be a feature.
If it was me I'd be making a nice tool cabinet and using them for the door.