building an odd shape

Making the reliquaries of wood involves fitting unusual angles, and that leads to hand work as machines are too complicated for the casual woodworker to set up. Routing for hinges to fit the sides of the boxes was done prior to assembly, but fitting the lids to the box requires some more typical hinge mortising hand work.

To make things a bit easier and more accurate, I did use the router table to partially rout where the hinges will fit, establishing the depth of the mortises. From there, fitting the lids required careful marking of where the lids would align with the hinges already fitted to the box. So far, so good, but with hand work, there's alway a chance for error.

Make, fix and create. Risk it. You'll be rewarded.