Those boxes look fantastic!
For living hinges, it sounds like hardwood is hit or miss and likely depends on the pattern used to make the hinge. I found this thread discussing this from a while back:
A while ago @dan stated that hardwood was not going to work for “living” hinges.
http://community.glowforge.com/t/beta-project-s-eleven-experimental-edition/2300/17
This sounded like a challenge, but I decided that I would just mess around with making flat wood springs.
I do have some uses in mind for them but for now they are just experiments in how the hardwood reacts to being cut into very thin delicate forms.
Here are most of what I have tried.
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