Living hinge sampler — 14 patterns

Fourteen living-hinge patterns on one test sheet, each 40 × 120mm and labelled, so you can bend them and find out which survives your material and thickness.

Included

• 14 patterns: straight slot, offset slot, wave, lattice, honeycomb, spiral, chevron and variants
• Test sheet at 3mm and 4mm
• Curvature notes: minimum bend radius achieved for each pattern in 3mm birch
• Two finished applications (pen case, curved lamp shade) using the two best-performing patterns

Honest note

Living hinges break. The point of this sheet is to find out which pattern breaks last in your material, at your kerf, on your machine, before you cut a whole project.