Hinged joint from a single board?

I don’t know of a way to cut a hinge out of a single board like that book stand.

But you could make a wooden hinge where both halves were from the same board using the technique in ShipWright's Blog

For examples of wood hinges, search the LJ projects for the tags: wooden hinge and wooden hinges

If you only want to use hand tools, my pine box project lid was done with a plow plane and block plane (shameless plug to boost my view count).

Thanks for the mention knockknock.
Actually with a scroll saw and a steady hand you can make the hinge in my blog without interrupting the grain.

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