3 Keys     4                                                4-2025


Making A Trim Plate Continued

 

Here is a close-up of the cutouts. The blue tape that you see was for laying out my locations.
 

 

 

Here I'm making the cutouts for the keys in my trim plate.
 

 

 

The distance between them was the same as the wood cutouts.
 

 

 

I added four screw holes to mount the trim plate.
 

 

 

Those weird shaped holes were existing but now I need to paint the bare wood.
 

 

 

 

Matt didn't want anyone to be able to see anything under the trim plate so I'll be using some black paint here and there. I sprayed some paint into a small cup and then used a brush to apply it.
 

 

 

 

I didn't have to worry about being careful with the paint because the trim plate will cover all this.
 

 

 

 

I also painted the tops and the inside of the blocks. The paint didn't cover that well but it's enough that you can't see anything from the outside.
 

 

 

 

Here is what it looks like all finished. Each key turns like there is a real lock inside and the keys stay in the blocks once you turn them.
 

 

 

 

This was a really fun project and hope that it works good for everyone that plays the game.
 

 

 

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