I finally got around to working on the door to my shop bathroom. In keeping with the A&C theme I tried to design the door in that style. I'm using the last of the oak from my lot. Needless to say this stuff has a lot of knots, splits, and worm holes. I am making the door 1 3/8" thick- standard for an interior door- with the recessed panels 3/4" thick. This thing is going to be heavy. Everything is cut to size. The panel grooves and stub tenons on the field stiles are cut. Since this picture was taken I cut the 2 1/2" long tenons on the ends of the rails. All that remains is to cut the mortises in the stiles and glue this thing up.
Today I cut the mortises in the rails, sanded the inset panels, and glued it all up. Here is the door still in the clamps. Was somebody asking about how to extend clamps for long assemblies? check out the pipe clamps.
I did some initial sanding of the rail and stile intersections, but may take it to a local cabinet shop and see if they will run it through a wide belt sander for me. It came out ok for a shop door. Speaking of crescent moons- I was actually going to (and may still) cut one in the center upper panel. :lol:
Today I cut the mortises in the rails, sanded the inset panels, and glued it all up. Here is the door still in the clamps. Was somebody asking about how to extend clamps for long assemblies? check out the pipe clamps.
I did some initial sanding of the rail and stile intersections, but may take it to a local cabinet shop and see if they will run it through a wide belt sander for me. It came out ok for a shop door. Speaking of crescent moons- I was actually going to (and may still) cut one in the center upper panel. :lol:
