Thread: A secret compartment for the rolltop desk

Nice work rocker, you have done it again.

You think that huge wing-nut would look better/more secret, at the rear of the draw or will the draw be full of socks etc.

HJ0

So the 40,000 people who follow this forum all share the secret!!!!

SSHHHHH you lot

HJO,

I am not sure I have understood your query. The piece of wood with the magnets, and its wing nut, would not normally be attached to the back of the drawer; it would be kept somewhere away from the desk. It would only be fitted to the back of the drawer when its owner wanted to withdraw the secret box from the back of the pigeonhole.

Rocker

are their any pics of it in relation to where it goes in the roll confused:

I love Krenovs approach to secret compartments. He puts them behind an obvious space so you just assume something could be their, but the trick is to work out how exactly do you find it or get into it:confused:

Echidna,

Secret compartments are not really intended to be somehere where you keep your life savings; they are more of a conversation piece, or a puzzle for an 8-year-old. But this seemed to be a good way of adding a secret compartment as an afterthought.

Rocker

Originally Posted by Rocker

Echidna,

Secret compartments are not really intended to be somehere where you keep your life savings
Rocker

Agreed, but they were originally created to hold private correspondence or other such papers from other residents of the household - eg spouses so were not intended to be found very easily...

Lignum,

See my first post in this thread and compare it with the second pic in the first post of http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...ad.php?t=34618 . When I have applied the finish to the three small drawers, I will post another picture of the pigeonhole unit with the three small drawers in place.

I think my secret box would be in the Krenov vein, since, unless you know its secret, it is not apparent how to extract the box from the back of the pigeonhole, since there is no way of getting hold of it, short of driving a gimlet into it.

Rocker

Thanks Rocker your secrets safe with me.





HJ0 cheers

Originally Posted by Auld Bassoon

Agreed, but they were originally created to hold private correspondence or other such papers from other residents of the household - eg spouses so were not intended to be found very easily...

Hmm; I think it would be a brave man, or a foolhardy one, who relied on a secret compartment in his desk to keep compromising correspondence from his wife's eyes.

Rocker

Originally Posted by Rocker

, since there is no way of getting hold of it, short of driving a gimlet into it.

Or tipping the desk forward?

Originally Posted by Rocker

Hmm; I think it would be a brave man, or a foolhardy one, who relied on a secret compartment in his desk to keep compromising correspondence from his wife's eyes.

Rocker

I agree, but that's exactly what they were originally designed for I believe - or more commonly from the husband's eyes...

FWW No103 Pg 82 has a fantastic run down on secret compartments if anyone has it

Originally Posted by Scissors

Or tipping the desk forward?

Well, yes; but that wouldn't be cricket, would it As I said, secret compartments are not intended to foil determined burglars. You might keep a packet of Viagra in it to spare your cleaning lady's blushes, but you would be unwise to put a 2-carat diamond there.

Rocker