[Continuation of Greet’s Guy’s Garb series, AKA ‘what Greet wants and is willing to sew for’]
I saw some adjustable mirrored boxes at War. These are fairly simple wooden boxes, looked like poplar, unfinished, with a mirror set inside the lid with two small hinges. I didn’t want my behavior to scream "I love this idea but I could do it better", so I didn’t take pictures, but here’s my drawing:
They came in four sizes, small (8×10) and large (12×14), either 4" or 8" deep. I’m guessing on all of these measurements from my memory – if you have one of these boxes and would like to correct me in the comments, go right ahead.
[These boxes were extremely popular – I wager that merchant returned home to Canada (from southern Mississippi! bless his heart) with less stuff than any other merchant at War. When Daan and I were shopping on Sat he only had one of the smaller, shallow ones left. Also, it seems to me that these boxes are about ideal for pointy hat carrying. I had been thinking about one of the smaller shallow ones, since I have no pointy hats, but upon reflection and remembering what my Persian hat will look like, and the wired late Flemish hat…I’m going to need the bigger, deep box. Sigh – I really try to be modest, I do, honest!]
Now, in my drawing I have ‘improved’ the box, by putting a very secure latch on it, a handle that will carry it RIGHT SIDE UP, and an inner partial tray for small things that always get lost in the bottom. Finally, I would like my box painted, to protect it from the muddy and beveraged elements.
Text technical version: It’s a poplar box (overall 12x14x8) with a
hinged lid, about an inch deep. A mirror is mounted to a piece of very
thin plywood (I’m thinking luan) framed in 1/2" square stock. Two
runners of 1/2" square stock are glued to the sides of the interior for
the mirror frame to sit on. No stops were provided; the friction of
the mirror frame and the triangulation force of the lid’s weight held
it in place in any position. I would add two more runners on front and
back to hold a partial shallow tray, divided unequally.
Interestingly, this looks a lot like my scribal easle but deeper. I’ll try to remember it Sunday.