The first box with Griffon latch in place
as you can see fully articulating. (Note: the pin to the right may help get some idea of scale)
The second box with only the top square to add and then once that is in place careful scoring until the metal is sliced through and then the top and bottom sanded flush, as in the previous example. I had some trouble with this one and soldering on the hinges, sometimes if you don't get it the first time your screwed. I spent more than half a day keeping things together as the soldering iron reheated and dislodged things while I had difficulty lining things up. My painful perfectionism did not help as in trying to make something perfect I lost a perfectly good incarnation of the box only to have things disintegrate and have to almost start over! In the end I took the cowards way out by attaching the hinges with Flex CA glue, which actually worked very well, me telling myself that it was a good opportunity to show that for some who don't use soldering irons,you can still make it with CA!
Here I solder the 5 sided cube to the sixth side- a piece of sheet brass. Once it is secured, I trim the excess and sand it all flush, then cut the lid from the whole. adding hinges and latch with Flex type CA.
