A Week In The Workshop 137
- Jun 19, 2022
- 2 min read
Hi everyone, hope you had a good week and are having a good weekend.
Firstly, a confession. This came to light after this video was shot and edited, but there was an error on the posted plans for the DIY rail hinge - the 1:1 plans for the front support riser (P4) had the slot fractionally off-centre; this has been put right, and the revised plans are available on the previous post, and I’ll post them here as well. Apologies for the inconvenience.
And yes, I have had to message over a hundred people on Etsy about that! 🤦♂️
Anyway, a bit of general chat this week, I’ve been tinkering with a few odds and ends - I’ll have more on those mid-week I think - and been trying to get my head around the various MFT jigs I have; I swear the Parf Guide system comes with a user manual thicker than the one I had with my first car. I need to get these rattled through pronto, but also need to be able to use them properly, so a little bedtime reading required!
The rail hinge is doing well - lots of positive feedback, and many comments from people looking for a physical product, so I’ll need to get my skates on with that, see what we can do.
I mentioned on Wednesday that I’d had a minor light-bulb moment, and not was that the rail hinge video was almost all shot on my phone; the talking heads were all done with the big camera and microphone, but the nature of the build meant that it was just easier to grab my phone to shoot a lot of it - most of it, it actually turned out. So interesting times; I’m not ready to ditch my cameras just yet, but I’ll certainly be experimenting with improving the phone audio, just in case the next generation iPhone is ‘the one’…
And there’s a question I hope you can help me out with, especially perhaps our members from the Netherlands? I enjoy a YouTube channel called Never Too Small - it’s about small home living, often in city-centres - and their current video features a nice one-bed apartment in Amsterdam. Whilst they give the walk-through, the owner opens some tall cupboards, and you can see that they’re hinged with regular concealed hinges, but double-hinged in the middle of the door. I’ve never seen this before, and I’m curious to know if this is common in the Netherlands ie a ‘Dutch’ thing, just an Amsterdam thing, or just a one-off!
Either way, I can’t figure out the benefit of it, so if anyone can shed any light I’d appreciate it!
That’ll do for now; thanks as always for your amazing support, and I’ll catch you mid-week.
Enjoy the rest of the weekend. Peter
Direct video link - https://youtu.be/ooko95QNklE
Never Too Small - Amsterdam Apt. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQFOpMM0evI
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Being from the Netherlands, I've never seen this arrangement for the hinges. There is even one hinge missing from one of the doors... Looking at the pattern, the doors seem to be cut from large laminated sheets, so at least the doors are custom made. But I've heard that a lot of companies order the actual cupboards to size from specialized manufacturers and just add the doors matching the customers wishes. (but they made a mistake at the door beneath the fridge). See no technical advantage for the arrangement of the hinges. Correcting the position of the doors won't be any better with these positions.
Morning Peter,
always a pleasure to watch the video when it drops. The new platform looks great and works without any issues for me - so much so I don’t log into Patreon anymore to watch them. Keep up the excel work and enjoy Father’s Day! Regards. Duncan.
Hi Peter, re the large door with 2 centre hinges....Is it as simple as enabling the doors to be split in two... Cheers Paul