I am going to mount Thai wood carvings (36″L x14″W x 1.5″ thick) to cabinet door frames frame made of 1” mahogany. These will be attached to a 1” thick mahogany face frame mounted to a standard 3/4” cabinet box (I have a good amount of 4 side planed 1″ x 6″ x 48″ mahogany that I want to use for frames) I’d like to use Blum inset hinges but have no idea how to compute what size hinge I’d need. The overall door thickness will be 2 3-8 to 2.5” and pretty heavy with the combo of teak carvings and mahogany frames. Thanks.
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Attached is Blum's hinge chart. There are not really different sizes of Euro Hinges. There are different types, different degree of swing and features such as self-close or soft-close or free-swing or push to open. The Euro Hinge people are more concerned with size of the door. In my experience I would use at least four hinges on each of the doors that you have described. Also if you go with a wide swing degree that has multi pivot points they will tend to sag more than a lesser degree hinge with fewer pivot points. Hope this helps.
Thanks!