best wood species for interior doors

[tjbnwi]

I make a lot of doors.

The link is mahogany, the photo is QSWO.
https://picasaweb.google.com/tbadernwi/CSAP?noredirect=1

Tom

The mahogany door is stunning.

Is there a reason you miterd the rail & stile rather than straight cut them? I assume it's to pick up the angles of the floating panel.

Did you do anything additional to prevent the mitres from opening?

Here is a link to the entire build and install. The first frame is the drawing I received, the architect drew it with mitered corners. That was not the biggest issue, it was labeled as 26" instead of 2/6-------oooooopppppppppsssssssssssss.

There is a picture of the 10x50 Dominos that were used in the corners to keep them joined. If the job would have moved forward with the original design the mitered corners added $17.14 to the cost of each panel.

I did not find out about the dimension error until the evening before I was to install the prototypes----in Cleveland. There are pics of how I solved the problem.

Due to budget, we did the job using flush off the shelf luan doors. Brought the job down from 500K to 150K.
https://picasaweb.google.com/tbadernwi/ClevelandRocks

Tom

 

[Cheese]

Here is a link to the entire build and install. The first frame is the drawing I received, the architect drew it with mitered corners. That was not the biggest issue, it was labeled as 26" instead of 2/6-------oooooopppppppppsssssssssssss.

There is a picture of the 10x50 Dominos that were used in the corners to keep them joined. If the job would have moved forward with the original design the mitered corners added $17.14 to the cost of each panel.

I did not find out about the dimension error until the evening before I was to install the prototypes----in Cleveland. There are pics of how I solved the problem.

Due to budget, we did the job using flush off the shelf luan doors. Brought the job down from 500K to 150K.
https://picasaweb.google.com/tbadernwi/ClevelandRocks

Tom

Good save with the end spacers... [not worthy]
Hey, 26" or 2' 6" what's a few inches between friends? You're just too picky [poke]
Loose Dominos, [eek] you said you never use loose Dominos, tight & tight if I remember correctly.

 

[tjbnwi]

Here is a link to the entire build and install. The first frame is the drawing I received, the architect drew it with mitered corners. That was not the biggest issue, it was labeled as 26" instead of 2/6-------oooooopppppppppsssssssssssss.

There is a picture of the 10x50 Dominos that were used in the corners to keep them joined. If the job would have moved forward with the original design the mitered corners added $17.14 to the cost of each panel.

I did not find out about the dimension error until the evening before I was to install the prototypes----in Cleveland. There are pics of how I solved the problem.

Due to budget, we did the job using flush off the shelf luan doors. Brought the job down from 500K to 150K.
https://picasaweb.google.com/tbadernwi/ClevelandRocks

Tom

Good save with the end spacers... [not worthy]
Hey, 26" or 2' 6" what's a few inches between friends? You're just too picky [poke]
Loose Dominos, [eek] you said you never use loose Dominos, tight & tight if I remember correctly.

Thank you, good thing they had extra wall covering.

The picture is captioned "Domino loose tenon joints". The type of joinery the Domino creates is loose tenon joinery. That a look at the picture, you can see all 4 mortices were cut on the tight setting. On 45º corners getting tight Dominos to come together is a lot of fun, done it many many times.

Tom

 

[Cheese]

Thank you, good thing they had extra wall covering.

The picture is captioned "Domino loose tenon joints". The type of joinery the Domino creates is loose tenon joinery. That a look at the picture, you can see all 4 mortices were cut on the tight setting. On 45º corners getting tight Dominos to come together is a lot of fun, done it many many times.

Tom

Gotcha, forgot about the Festool semantics.

So, you're a man of your word...tight & tight, and I am impressed with using it on the 45's. [not worthy]

 

[tjbnwi]

Not bad on that door due to length and width, on an 8' tall 4"x4" post it can be challenging to pop in the last joint.

Tom

 

[sancho57]

Ditto on the Fir for painted interior doors

 

[jaguar36]

Those doors look awesome.  Did you have any issues getting even clamping pressure?  Looks like made a massive caul type thing.

Due to budget, we did the job using flush off the shelf luan doors. Brought the job down from 500K to 150K.

How many doors is that for?

 

[tjbnwi]

Those doors look awesome.  Did you have any issues getting even clamping pressure?  Looks like made a massive caul type thing.

Due to budget, we did the job using flush off the shelf luan doors. Brought the job down from 500K to 150K.

How many doors is that for?

Thank you.

No problem with the clamping pressure.

230 rooms, 460 bi-pass door panels.

Tom