Looking for nice quality lid supports for a hope chest. Any
suggestions? Do not like the ones you normally see. Looking for high
quality!
Mike

Woodworkers hardware. Lots to choose from. Search on Lid Stays at their
site of the link doesn't work
http://www.wwhardware.com/catalog.cf...ays/showprod/1

a big thank-you...just what I needed!!!
Mike

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Looking for nice quality lid supports for a hope chest. Any
suggestions? Do not like the ones you normally see. Looking for high
quality!
Mike

This is the coolest (as well as the nicest quality and best looking - I
can't stand the stamped brass-plated cheapo look) I've ever used:

http://www.rockler.com/ecom7/product_details.cfm?offerings_id=414

There's a screw adjustment to fine tune the rate of close depending upon
the weight of the lid. To close the box you get the lid just past
vertical and walk away - the soft-down feature will slowly close the lid
to a very safe and satisfyingly quiet, bass "dnk" sound. I used one on a
walnut and birch child's toy box that is about 22"x30" and it's the
cat's payamas I tell 'ya.

BTW, if your hope chest will have kids around it - think into the future
too - don't put an self-latching closure on it. If it must have a latch
install one that must be manually set. Kids like to crawl into empty
boxes and a few have suffocated. All commercial chests and the like, I
believe, must have safety latches now.
--
Owen Lowe
The Fly-by-Night Copper Company
____

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
Corporate States of America and to the
Republicans for which it stands, one nation,
under debt, easily divisible, with liberty
and justice for oil."
- Wiley Miller, Non Sequitur, 1/24/05

Thank-you Owen,
I believe I like that unit the best and my local Rockler has them in
stock.

thanks,
Mike