attaching the hinges with clenched nails.

The clenched nails bend and hammered in.

Chest with the lid up. Hinges are stiff enough that it doesn’t flop around much.

Just one last thing to do. Build the lock haspe, and install it.

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I took one of the nails and cut it down to ~ 1 1/2″ with a wire cutter

I then took the nail gripped in a vice grip to the bench grinder. Grinding down both sides of the nail has a couple of good side effects.
1.  The flattend profile of the nail cuts through the wood, not just pushes it to the sides. So if you orientate the flat of the nail with the grain of the wood you can hammer the nail quite close to the edge of the boards. A normal nails would split the wood.
2. The end of the nail glows red on the grinder and become malleable allowing the nail to be easily turned. Normally the nail would be difficult to bend, and may become brittle and snap.
3. The nail having cut the fiber, has the added benifit of the fibers slopping in the direction of the nails path. This acts a bit like a feather board making the nail  less likely to become loose.  Which could be a problem on a hinge where there would be considerable movement.

An image of the nail path (note the wood only cracked when I band sawed very close to the nail)

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