by Dick Belanger

Dick Belanger kicks off the first Featured Piece for 2024-2025.  The article is a perfect beginning of the season because it expands the breadth of the mission of this column.  It not only demonstrates wonderful craftsmanship of a furniture piece, but it outlines a process.  As readers of this column know, the column is not exclusive of furniture pieces.  Featured Pieces can be a jig, tools (or special use of a tool), story, or process/technique.  In this case, the use of knife hinges is the featured focus. 

Knife hinges have a reputation of being difficult to install properly.  Dick, who is an EMGW mentor and a member of the Newcomer Committee, offered to write his article without having much experience using knife hinges.  He was primed to write this stepwise installation process as part of constructing his cabinet.  If his choice of hinges didn't work out, Dick would end up without a working article.  But as you will read in Knife Hinges – Installation on a Small Cabinet, Dick has nothing but good things to say about knife hinges.

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