Flute Case
Materials
2 x 300mmx150mm pieces of hardwood of your choice - one 17mm thick the other 20mm
I cut them out of a single piece to match the grain
2 x 10mm barrel hinges
6 x 5mm magnets
adhesive felt for lining
Tools
Shaper origin
6mm bit
Band saw and table saw if matching the grain from a single slab.
Instructions
This is a simple case for an Irish Flute Sourced the 8mm barrel hinges from Amazon but if I was doing it again I would seek better quality ones. The over all depth needed for an Irish flute is approx 30mm - bore of a flute is 21 mm and walls about 3mm - this leaves enough room for some felt padding. Cut the bottom rebates to a depth of 17mm and the top rebates to 13mm. This will allow you to cut a pattern in the lid if you chose to do so ( like the whistle box shown. I used adhesive felt for the lining . I made the bottom deeper than the lid and added a purple heart catch as an afterthought - not in the design I'm afraid - free handed it! The whistle box is the basically the same process but was just designed on the shaper itself so I don't have a file for it. Just a rectangle inside a rectangle with rounded corners. There are lots of Celtic patterns to chose from on Tinternet😂 There pattern is filled with pearlescent green epoxy.