One of my earliest wood working projects dates from 1966. My friends: Mike, Bradley, Stanley and I gathered together scrap wood and railroad ties to make a 'fort' behind our garage. To hold the door on we used hinges made from old fire hose. The fort had a flat plywood roof that leaked, no windows, a dirt floor and we loved it. We actually planted 'flower???' in a garden around the back.
If you search 'strap hinges' now they are almost all metal, DIY the hinges are probably leather. I have used leather for hinges plenty of times but recently have arrived at a new recycled type of hinge material:
inner tube and duct tape.
The hinge is two layers of duct tape with a bicycle inner tube core,
cut with shears.
I cut the inner tube slightly smaller than the tape. That way I fold over the edges, just for aesthetics.
The inner tube adds some mass to the tape so that nails or screws won't pull out as easily. This makes for a light weight hinge for a box that is used infrequently, like the glue gun box. If the hinge was to get more action I would use a washer with the fastener to distribute the stresses better.
Some times I do projects that are fine wood working, other times my projects are carpentry. Most workshop storage things are....carpentry.
cheers, ianw
