One of the winter building projects I am allowing myself to do on Ventura is a folding table for eating/writing at. The original design had a table and there is still a fiberglassed flange along the hull where it went. As is my custom, I picked up a table top that was lying in a trash pile, some time ago. It is going to be the table for the boat.
The thing that is challenging for this project is that I'd like to make the hinges for the table out of wood. I saw a guy on Youtube build a cabinet door with hinges of wood and now I am wanting to do it myself.
▶ Making wooden hinges - YouTube
I am concerned that a table will have more stress than a small door and will try to make adjustments for that.
Even if I do not have success with the wooden hinges I can still make the hinge out of used and reclaimed parts, as I have a few spare parts to choose from.
I don't have a drill press, well not really. I have this thing a friend gave me that adapts a hand drill to a drill press. I am spending a bit of time trying to get it set up to run plum and square.
I did the hinges by eye and free hand with a power drill, we shall see how that turns out.
I love the idea of making many of the new parts out of wood, as there seems to be a lot of it available to me, and I know that the world operated on that level of technology for a long time. I like mixing the modern fiberglass (but used or reclaimed) boat with wooden and older or simpler parts to fix or replace broken things onboard.
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