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[Jules]

Actually, that’s not really a living hinge, but it looks like a technique that one of the guys discussed a while back, (think it was Paul), where removing enough of the material causes it to become flexible. It’s an alternative to a living hinge.

Let me see if I can find that experiment that he ran on it… (oh, yeah, I’m gooooood! )

I call it “kerfing”. (No idea if it has a real name or not.)

Possible alternative to living hinge

My background is in woodworking,so I’ve been playing a little with a laser analog to kerfing for bending wood. With regular tools, you make a series of cuts almost through a piece of wood or plywood. The cuts weaken the wood, and the material removed by the cutting gives the inner edge of the piece room to have a shorter (partial) circumference than the outside. The cuts don’t go through, so it still looks like a solid piece. Problem with lasers is that the kerf is so small that you’d have to s…