My sister-in-law wants me to make her storage for her pierced earrings. She has seen some things with a metal frame and fine wire mesh stretched inside the frame, and the frame hangs in the closet. I can make the frame readily enough but I can’t figure out how to anchor the mesh in the wood so that the anchoring is unseen. Should I make two frames, anchor the mesh on one of the frames, and then glue the frames together? Does anyone have a better idea?
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Would the mesh be a fine flexible screen like common insect screening or more like a small meshed but stiff hardware cloth?
John White
I don't have the mesh yet, but it seems to me it would most likely be flexible and light. On the other hand, a stiff mesh might work okay as long as the holes were big enough for the earring pointy thing to go through easily.
For a thin flexible mesh I would make a simple wood frame and groove the back face to use the rubber spline system that is used for mounting window screening. You can get the spline and the hand tool to install it at hardware stores and home centers.For a stiff mesh I'd cut a thin groove along the inside edge of the stock for the frame and then assemble the frame around the mesh. The best blade to cut the groove would be to get a cheap, small diameter, thin kerf blade for a hand held skil saw and use the blade on your table saw. Some of the skil saw blades are very thin.John White
Thanks.
Mesh screen
Cool idea to use mesh screen to hang earrings. I'd opt for metal screening -- more durable.
Fine Wire Mesh
How did this project work out? I was just curious because I am looking to do something that I think is pretty similar and i ran into the same issue of fastening the fine wire mesh stainless steel material.
How fine was the mesh you used based off of this measuring standard:
http://www.bwire.com/measure_wire_cloth.htm
Fine Wire Mesh
How did this project work out? I was just curious because I am looking to do something that I think is pretty similar and i ran into the same issue of fastening the fine wire mesh stainless steel material.
How fine was the mesh you used based off of this measuring standard:
http://www.bwire.com/measure_wire_cloth.htm
Fine Wire Mesh
How did this project work out? I was just curious because I am looking to do something that I think is pretty similar and i ran into the same issue of fastening the fine wire mesh stainless steel material.
How fine was the mesh you used based off of this measuring standard:
http://www.bwire.com/measure_wire_cloth.htm
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