Building my workshop door

[Timtool]

A few months ago i posted a vid on my channel of the construction of my workshop door, as it shows quite a bit of festool usage and not always the conventional way i thought i should post it here as well.

The old door was one of my first ever woodworking projects as a total noob without any proper tools or knowledge , and an exercise in disaster full of errors. But it held up many years with the necessary support. Until this september where it just disintegrated so i couldn't postpone the build of a new one any longer as i had been doing.

I used cheap construction pine called SRN, red Norwegian pine. I wanted to have a diagonal brace but also boards integrated in the frame so i had to come up with a particular method of integrating both...

Almost 3 months later now i can happily say the door is still dead flat and hasn't warped or sagged, on the previous door i placed the boards too close to each other and when they expanded with humidity they forced apart the joints!



Take a good last look at the Robland panel saw and jointer planer, i took the plunge and ordered new Felder 700 series to replace them!

 

[LarsL]

Great video.  Thanks for sharing!

 

[Blackberry]

Nice work!  I'm jealous of the machinery too.

 

[tiralie]

Yes, great video. But I don't remember seeing the old door. Maybe I missed that...
Tim

 

[GhostFist]

Loved the WTF moment! Great vid and nice work!

 

[Runhard]

Please show us some pictures or a video when you get your new Felder 700 equipment up and running. You have some nice shops, I'm a little jealous of your space  [embarassed]

Oh... Nice door by the way [wink]

Daniel

 

[Wonderwino]

Beautiful door!!! Did you add a sweep to close the gap under the door?

 

[Timtool]

You get a glimpse of the old door in the video during the build, it was just a plain flat door. I prefer to have windows now to look outside and have more natural light.

I haven't closed the gap under the door, the building used to be a cow and pig stable so there are gaps for ventilation everywhere. Closing the gap under the door won't change anything unfortunately!

I should have the new felders by march, i wanted to improve my DC with the RL160 DC system so i thought i would better upgrade my tools as well so i only have to adapt the DC ducting once. I am happy with the Roblands but i had a good year which means taxes will strangle me next year if i don't invest.

 

[WoodWhisperer]

Nice work!!  Awesome tools!!!!

 

[Cort]

Wow!  Excellent work.  Thank you for posting.  I like how you angled the top of the lower rail to shed water.

 

[Sparktrician]

Beautiful job!!!  I like that lock mechanism.  Did you ever figure out what the parade was about?  It seemed to be quite a party. 

 

[Timtool]

Beautiful job!!!  I like that lock mechanism.  Did you ever figure out what the parade was about?  It seemed to be quite a party. 

Yes, i was working on a sunday and it happened to be the annual "cramignon" parade, it is a very local tradition limited to a handful of villages.
It dates back from a time where people from villages were isolated from other villages, and this was an excuse for young people to meet each other and find a bride.
You dress up in fancy clothes and dance around the village making stops for drinks, i did it once lol!

 

[Sparktrician]

Beautiful job!!!  I like that lock mechanism.  Did you ever figure out what the parade was about?  It seemed to be quite a party. 

Yes, i was working on a sunday and it happened to be the annual "cramignon" parade, it is a very local tradition limited to a handful of villages.
It dates back from a time where people from villages were isolated from other villages, and this was an excuse for young people to meet each other and find a bride.
You dress up in fancy clothes and dance around the village making stops for drinks, i did it once lol!

That seems to be a fun thing to do.  Is this custom unique to the Walloons part of Belgium? 

 

[Timtool]

I have always known it, but it is apparently unique to the upper north part of the province of Liège. Dates back from XIII-XV century when villages usually had no more than 2-3 families, and it is held at the end of the harvest in september.