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   webby | Sep 20, 2008 04:37am | #1

   I searched for about twenty minutes and couldn't find anything. I did learn that hinges were often affixed with wire nails suitable for clinching. Shaker oval boxes were assembled with copper tacks and the ends were cliched over.

   However I suspect that the hinge you are looking for has an eye that you drive into the wood of the lid if I recall,  and a loop of wire that you insert through the eye then through a drilled hole and then clinch the ends over, into the inside of the box? Am I right? I may have the loop and eye locations reversed.

   I saw them on an episode of the Woodwright Shop. However I could find no info on them at the pbs site.

   I don't know about the 'eye' but a large cotter pin might suffice for the loop if the ends were sharpened.

   Otherwise I would search out a local blacksmith.

   Webby 

    

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   jeffe | Sep 20, 2008 10:49pm | #5

   Thank you so much for your efforts.
   what you have described is close....I too searched online to no avail...another message came in describing them as snipe hinges....that is it...which see, message #43462.3.I have a good friend, a master metal man, but expensive.... I am on the mend, no money since last of April...LOL...am looking on the cheap! The snipe hinges are it, a bit more than I had hoped, but I like to do it right!Thanks so much for you effort.......:) Jeffe

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   webby | Sep 20, 2008 10:54pm | #6

   Hey glad I could help, or try.  At least you have a resource where you can purchase them.

   Hope you feel better. Webby 

    

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   jeffe | Sep 20, 2008 11:48pm | #7

   Let's face it, F.W.W. is my friend and my bible. To my great surprise ####good friend dropped by yesterday with about 60 mags of FFW in perfect shape dating back to 1990 - oh what bliss!Thanks again for your help and kind words. It is going to be awhile...this morning experienced a few bouts of vertigo, nearly blacked-out....am on the couch for the duration...lap top, Ryder coup and new additions of FFW.....could be a lot worse, I could be in a hospital room with too much A.C. and bad food.....poor ol' thing LOL.Have a great weekend!! :) Jeffe

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   joinerswork | Sep 21, 2008 08:19am | #8

   jeffe,

   The Horton hinges are nice.  But with the right guage wire, and a pair of needlenose pliers, you can make a pair of them.  If I can, you can.

   Hint: The holes in the case are drilled diagonally.  Start at the corner of the case,and angle the hole downward/inward til you come thru the inside.  Insert the "cotter pin", and spread its legs.  Form each leg into a "U" (sideways, or parallel to the edge of the case) then hammer each one down flush, so that you drive the end of the leg (best if clipped off or filed at an angle, forming a chisel-type edge) into the case, burying it so it won't snag on anything.  "Buck up" the loop of the hinge with a piece of heavy iron or another hammer, so it can't back out of the hole when you clinch the legs.

   Ray

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   Floss | Sep 20, 2008 06:22am | #2

   Do you mean snipe hinges?

   http://www.horton-brasses.com/products/hinges/ironspecialhinges

   F.

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   webby | Sep 20, 2008 05:26pm | #3

   Snipe Hinges! If I heard them called that I forgot. But that is what I saw on the Woodwright.

   Can't speake for Jeffe though. I was just guesiing that is what he wanted.Webby 

    

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   jeffe | Sep 20, 2008 10:26pm | #4

   Yes, that is it, thank you very much. I have always heard them called a clinch hinge......my bad :). Jeffe