I've got some 12mm ply spacers to ensure the panel stays centered during the glue up.

Beautiful work Eiji.   Thanks for taking the time to walk through the steps.

neil

Thank you, Bill. It means alot coming from a craftsman of your caliber.

Eiji

And the Oscar for best documented thread goes to......

Once again Eiji great doors, great thread, great pics

It's nice to see my clients have checked out the progress on the doors. Since the doors are done I really need to hound B to pick out the glass for her sidelites.

Up next is sizing the doors, building the door jambs and thresholds, making the astragals, and hardware installation.

Next.   Sizing and beveling the doors utilizing the TS75.
           Using the TS75 to rabbett the door bottoms for low profile door sweeps.
           Using the OF1400/OF-FH for hardware installation (hinges and flush bolts)
           MFT and Thresholds and Dominoed door jambs

I also would like to invite any questions and constructive comments.

Thank you,

Eiji Fuller

Eiji,
Really superb and awesome work, plus the photos, and especially the creative way you took advantage of/and developed specialized uses for the Festool system. I'm overwhelmed. Plus...I didn't see any freakin' dust!

Thanks so much for shooting and sharing all those photographs!
Gary

Mr. Katz,
I very much appreciate your comments. Coming from my mentor, via your seminars and books, it has the greatest feeling. If any of you finish carpenters out there have not read Gary's book,"Finish Carpentry Techniques" or attended his seminars at a JLC event you are doing yourselves a disservice. When I started out in finish work that book was with me where ever I went.

Thank you,

Eiji

Nickao,

I'm 32 and have 4 gray hairs.

Now you know how Brice feels about doing detailed reviews 

But, I'm with you Eiji, I think the expectaions for documentation have become excessive. You've done a great job on documentation already IMO since it has been more than sufficient to show an exceptional level of design, thought, workmanship, and organization. Especially impressive from someone with only 4 grey hairs. 

Keep up the great work, your clients are lucky to have found you.

I get it, Brice.

When I first read your suggestions to Eiji, my immediate reaction was: "Wow, winning this contest isn't going to be easy!" But I later thought: "Why should it be?"

You're obviously a perfectionist who puts a lot of thought and effort into everything he does. And there are many around here with a similar mindset, including Eiji. Rising above such a crowd SHOULD take extra effort. Eiji's certainly up to the challenge, it's just a matter of how badly he wants that MFK 700. 

On the other hand, we could always run the monthly contests more like it's done over at WoodWhisperer. You answer a (VERY) simple question and toss your name in a hat. But, the majority of members here indicated they wanted something more substantial. And I think as a group, we will benefit more from going that way.


John

When the criteria shifted to best documetation.  I wanted to post a reply on the contest criteria thread but didn't. I wanted to say that I think that the contest is an excellent idea, but I feel that the most important criteria should be excellent woodworking and craftsmanship with the emphasis on usage of Festool to get you there. 

Making criteria of best documentation and  best how to descriptions puts it out of reach for woodworkers without photography skills and writing skills. And obviously if the focus is on Festool tools to gain the utmost in craftsmanship the documentation has to be there to support that.

I don't think we have scared anyone off. I actually think the participation in the project threads has increased a great deal. Just look at all the first time posts in each of my project threads. Also, I think the number of projects has increased this month as well.

Well, I'm back at it.

I've milled the jamb stock to 22mm thick and I will glue on a kerfed stop later.

on to the thresholds. The finish flooring is tile on slab so a thick t-hold will not work. I have milled the T-hold stock to 25mm and will glue on a stip to the underside. This strip serves 2 puposes, it thickens up the beveled side and props it up at the correct angle and I can run it through the planer to get the bevel.

You think I could use some bow clamps? After the glue dries I rip the edge off and layout for dadoes for the doubled up door/side lite jamb legs. The sandwich will be 80mm. I've set up to route 8mm deep with a 20mm bit plus 60mm spacer.

Well, I am not quite done yet and I've gotten a little accomplished the past couple of days.

After milling of the thresholds you can see why I dadoed for the dividing jambs first.

Time for a jamb sandwich. I want 80mm of jamb. 2 @ 22 =44 + 36 =80mm target thickness. I guess I should of made the sandwich first and then ate it. 

I use some dominoes in the jamb lamination and offset the mid piece.

Then glue it up. Man am I using up a lot of glue or what.

After assembling the dividing jambs I cut them to length which is the door height + dadoe and reveals. I use a 2mm reveal at the top and 4mm at the bottom of the doors.

Here are some pics of the set up to rabbet the door stop.

Then check the fit of the jamb glue up in its dadoe in the threshold. Perfect.

I cut the bottoms of the door stop to match the angle of the threshold