Yeah. The banding is nice but needs practice. Do you use power tools to flatten / thin stock or do you use a handplane?Thanks. This is the first time in years making the banding. I would have loved to have used miniature barrel hinges but I felt the sides were too thin to try it. Unfortunately I didn’t have any blood wood for the heart.
The barrel hinges not fitting is annoying and unfixable. Not much you can do. Maybe slightly nicer hinges.
Now that last point though: that sounds like a very good excuse to buy more wood.