Originally Posted by
Dennis
The advantage of Carole's suggestion is that you can then decide for yourself what length of tube to use, slice off about 8.0mm for the lid, add a top and bottom and finally a protruding rim within the box to hold the lid securely.
This will avoid the need for a hinge, which is seriously difficult for a beginner. The lid can be made to fit a little more tightly by adding one or more light punch marks to the inner rim, which will raise small pimples on it.
Below are my magnetic paperclip holders made using this general idea. However these are oval and roll textured rather than etched, so I had to make the tubes as well. Dennis
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