After a few stumbles, I finally finished the shelf for my ukes. The doors are plastic and I used closed cell foam insulation tape around all the seems, including behind the piano hinges, that allowed me to adjust the gap between the doors, which is pretty much perfect (glad I measured well).
The magnetic latches hold the doors right up against the foam, and the door handles match the ones I have in the rest of the room. The only thing I'm second guessing is the chrome hinges, I might end up changing them to brass since there are other brass elements. I actually had to cut the 48" hinges down to 33" using my electric miter saw (the sparks were a flyin').
Otherwise it came out great, and now I'm not worried about my ukes cracking like the Lanikai monkey pod did a few weeks ago during the low humidity spell her in Los Angeles. With the water trays below the ukes, the hygrometer is reading a steady 52% (I'm getting another one to double check).
The magnetic latches hold the doors right up against the foam, and the door handles match the ones I have in the rest of the room. The only thing I'm second guessing is the chrome hinges, I might end up changing them to brass since there are other brass elements. I actually had to cut the 48" hinges down to 33" using my electric miter saw (the sparks were a flyin').
Otherwise it came out great, and now I'm not worried about my ukes cracking like the Lanikai monkey pod did a few weeks ago during the low humidity spell her in Los Angeles. With the water trays below the ukes, the hygrometer is reading a steady 52% (I'm getting another one to double check).
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