Vintage Wood Letterpress Drawer Printers Tray Table Tutorial

I have had this vintage wood letterpress drawer printers tray shadow box for over a year and I have not done anything with it. Until now which I decided to turn it into a table with iron hairpin legs. I love the idea that I can store little vintage items that I have collected through my travels to antique stores. Now it my own little curio table!

  I got my wooden letterpress tray from ebay from all places because I found it was the bang for my buck! I even got free shipping! I also got the iron hairpin legs on ebay. They are very easy to install, just screw them in and you are done.  

    I really wanted to keep my little vintage trinkets away from little hands that might get curious. So I decided to install poster frame plexiglass on each section of the vintage wood letterpress drawer printer tray. I had an old poster frame which I used the plexiglass from because the frame broke. Keep in mind that the plexiglass is very fragile and can chip and break very easily. I used scissors to cut it to fit each section and I did get some cracking in sections.

Attaching the plexiglass can be a little nerve racking. You will need X acto knife to pierce through the plexiglass slowly and without to much force. You need to make a small hole where you will want to add a small nail. 

I got the hinges from graphic 45 line that can be found at Aaron bothers. The hinges come with brads which I attached to the plexiglass and then I got small nails at home depot which I use to nail on the hinges attached it to wooden letterpress tray.  

I used Tim Holtz hitch fasteners to act as a door handle to each section of the letterpress printer tray.

Then I just went to town just adding all my little trinkets and some that I made myself.

Now I just need to go to a flea market and find more curiosities to add to my little curio table! I added some letterpress stamps and iron letter. I also made so trinkets from Tim Holtz ideo-logy line.

Stay Crafty everyone!