Mary Ostler

The big push is on. I will be leaving on Friday for Avacal/Tir Righ war. My deadline for finishing this project was this event, so I needed to get on with it.

All of the side panels have been cut out, carved, primed and painted.

Sides and doors with the heraldic badges painted in bright colors.

The butterfly hinges installed on the side panels. These were acquired from Lee Valley Tools. Oddly they were just about the cheapest decent looking hinges at LV, and the closest in shape and style to what the original aumbrys I looked at have. The hinges were attached by clenched nails.

The side panels attached to the back panel. Cheap paino hinges were used for the interior folds. The yellow linen fabric was attached with small copper tacks.

Interior shot of the paino hinge

Front panel with the carved badges painted. The front panel has slight carved out sections to make it look more like it was made out of a series of planks rather than one piece of plywood. Then dowels were placed in false holes to look like drawbored joints.

The front attached to the sides and back. All I need to do is to make a false top, install the folding shelves for the bottom and middle shelf and a couple of door turns.

Folding Aumbry v1.2 Painted door
Folding Aumbry v1.1 Tracery Bits
Folding Aumbry v1.0 In the Beginning
Cardboard Mock Up
Folding Shelves