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Tough to get consistently exactly right is for sure. However, slowly but surely I am getting there.
On the maple box are my latest hinges made from Birdseye Maple. The last three pics are of the first little box I made with these very small hinges. I consider it my masterpiece. A whole lot of work went into getting to this point.
Anyway back to the maple box. The hinges are .300 thick with .156 fingers. I have made some more upgrades since my last blog entry. The hinges when being made are about 3 1/4" long, this gives me enough to hold on to when cutting fingers. (The wood fingers) To cut way down on time I've now gone to putting fingers on both ends of each piece.
Here is a picture after fingers have been cut. Remember, the pivot hole is .047
These I got just right and they worked very well without extra sanding
Also I needed to do better on my clamping jigs as they were not getting a tight enough fit. So here is what I came up with. I set the two cauls in the jig you see here, then slide in the freshly glued fingers. Then fit the side pieces with bolts that thread into the wood. Then insert the stabilizer shims and clamp together. This way I can adjust any offset of the finger pieces. It works better than I thought it would.
Then I clamp down with hand clamps and remove C-clamp. Then run .025 wires through holes to clean out. If everything was done correctly they should slide through!
On the maple box are my latest hinges made from Birdseye Maple. The last three pics are of the first little box I made with these very small hinges. I consider it my masterpiece. A whole lot of work went into getting to this point.
Anyway back to the maple box. The hinges are .300 thick with .156 fingers. I have made some more upgrades since my last blog entry. The hinges when being made are about 3 1/4" long, this gives me enough to hold on to when cutting fingers. (The wood fingers) To cut way down on time I've now gone to putting fingers on both ends of each piece.
Here is a picture after fingers have been cut. Remember, the pivot hole is .047
These I got just right and they worked very well without extra sanding
Also I needed to do better on my clamping jigs as they were not getting a tight enough fit. So here is what I came up with. I set the two cauls in the jig you see here, then slide in the freshly glued fingers. Then fit the side pieces with bolts that thread into the wood. Then insert the stabilizer shims and clamp together. This way I can adjust any offset of the finger pieces. It works better than I thought it would.
Then I clamp down with hand clamps and remove C-clamp. Then run .025 wires through holes to clean out. If everything was done correctly they should slide through!