Beveled Glass Installation
It has been about one year since one of our long time customers approached us about making a set of triple beveled glass casement windows with a center pivot on each. After much back and forth we finalized a relatively simple rectilinear beveled design.
The difficult part was installing the triple casement. Once again I enlisted the help of the best Handyman, and installer I know, Don Van Cura. Don is in my Networking group Wildfire Networking. I wouldn't do any difficult installation without him. I was able to find a perfect all brass, ball bearing, pivot hinge, 
from Architectual Resource Center http://brasswindowhardware.com/and the installation of them appeared to be pretty straight forward.
window before
We understood how the hinge worked, but it took some time before we agreed how to install them. The owner of the company that sold the hinges didn't have any help with our particular type of installation. We didn't have the option of removing the jamb to set the top hinge. We ended up removing the ball bearing on the top hinge, and that gave us the extra room for clearance, and didn't affect the ease of pivot since the weight was on the bottom bearing. We set the hinge into the sash. With the ball bearing hinge the pivot was very smooth.
We first set the center sash, 
cutting detail
routing mortise hinge set
and then trimmed the right sash as we needed. Finally we set the left sash. This was an interior set of windows. It was a divider between the master bath and bedroom. 
mortise in sill
bottom hinge set mortising top hinge Don with windows installed
After we finished the installation the owner had the sash stained and finished. A very nice and interesting project.
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