Subject: Installing small hinges

From: [email-masked] (Dory Joe)
Date: 14 Feb 1997 18:46:16 GMT

I am just getting into small boxes, jewlery boxes, music boxes etc.  I
would be interested in suggestions RE: installing butt type hinges.  There
must be some tricks to this delicate procedure.  Help appreciated.  Joe

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From: Dave29 <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 22:23:43 -0800

> must be some tricks to this delicate procedure.  Help appreciated.  Joe

Simply scribe a line around the hinge in place useing your utility knife
or x-acto then chisel out thin shavings until you are at the right
depth. If all your chisels are too big or you done have any you can
sharpen a small screwdriver(30degrees), it wont hold an edge like a
chisel but it works in a pinch (the yellow & black handeled ones are
throwaway cheap). Good luck!

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From: [email-masked] (Mike G.)
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 05:27:58 GMT

Sorry I missed the first message, lost some software here and am just
getting things back up.

after cutting the mortices for the butt hinges as Dave  discribed
below I actually mount the hinges in the mortices then fit the top to
the box. I then mark the outside edges of the hinges in the top,
remove the hinges trace as discribed below. 

And just between you and me (and everyone else on the list) I make my
tops a smidgen oversized and disk sand them to fit after I mount the
hingest.  This eliminates any possable error when matching the top to
the bottom and mounting the hinges. I just "erase it".