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   forestgirl | May 29, 2003 08:57am | #1

   Welllllll...I have a clue, but barely.  Sometime in the last year or so, there was a magazine plan for something very similar, but designed to hide a laptop.  It might very well have been FWW.  If not, it was probably Wood Mag.

   I'm dead on my feet at the moment.  Will take a look tomorrow morning and see if it jumps out of my files.

   forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl   ;-)

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   ian | May 30, 2003 02:58pm | #4

   Issue 133, Nov/Dec 98  p58  Laptop Computer Desk

   The keyboard drawer is a slide out tray with a false front rather than a drawer.  The false front hinges down into a recess in the tray rather than out.  The latter would increase the area of the tray but place huge forces on any hinge.

   Ian

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   forestgirl | May 30, 2003 07:20pm | #5

   Thanks Ian, I never did get back to look for it.forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl   ;-)

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   jimhamster | May 30, 2003 11:12pm | #6

   Thanks to all for your input/advice/efforts.  Of course AFTER I posted the ? I found what I might be looking for in a Rockler catalog, but then again I think I'll need to hit the Seattle store to see it in person.  I'm digging through the piles for the FWW issue, too.  Again thanks to one and all.

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   forestgirl | May 30, 2003 11:35pm | #7

   If you see a big Zebrawood plank there with claw-marks on its face, that's the one they had to peel me off of last time I visited.forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl   ;-)

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   Tag | May 29, 2003 04:25pm | #2

   Woodworker's Hardware(http://www.wwhardware.com) sells a drop front slide and a hidden hinge drop front hinge that might work for your app.  With the hidden hinge, you'd use whichever drawer slide you choose.  The other one has a slide with it, but it's not exactly heavy duty.

   Good luck.

   Brian

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   chairmake1 | May 30, 2003 12:08am | #3

   I built a desk for a client last summer and she wanted a flip down drawer front for her keyboard and mouse. I built a 32" wide by 21" deep tray out of 4/4 white oak. On the side of the tray I installed 3/4"t x 1 1/2"w x 22"l tray runners (upper & lowers/ left & right)

   and screwed them to the framed opening. At the rear of the tray I installed stop blocks to keep the tray from comming out the front and falling to the floor. The drawer fronts (3) were all inset to the front apron so I attached the tray front to the bottom front of the tray with a piano hinge. All was hidden from the front view and the customer was very pleased.

   Robert

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   aew | Jun 01, 2003 03:54am | #8

   There is a keyboard tray slider with a front hinge to drop the front of the "drawer" sold by Lee Valley.  It is inexpensive-about $6.  The number is 00K71.01.  I haven't bought one but I have been thinking about it for a next winter project.  Lee Valley stuff is generally very high quality and they will always take it back if it isn't what you need.