Entry Doors with side lites
- Thread starter Warrior
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I love them!Hey Eiji - superb work. Yow! I'm also in San Diego, and am in the midst of a major remodel. At some point (when I have some money again) we're going to replace the front door. I was thinking of contacting you, but after seeing this, I clearly cannot afford your work! Plus, it would make the rest of our house look shabby. Do you have a web site or some place to see other pictures of your work?
Poto
Poto
Poto,
thanks for the compliment. Sadly I am still in the dark ages and do not have a website. I am finishing a very large project that took me about 8 months of onsite work and when that is ready for pics I think I will need to have a website to showcase it and some other projects I have festooled. I will PM my contact info. My doors are no more expensive than any other custom doors.
Eiji Fuller
thanks for the compliment. Sadly I am still in the dark ages and do not have a website. I am finishing a very large project that took me about 8 months of onsite work and when that is ready for pics I think I will need to have a website to showcase it and some other projects I have festooled. I will PM my contact info. My doors are no more expensive than any other custom doors.
Eiji Fuller
Dan Clark said:
Dan,
Sapele is a beautiful wood and the ribbon grain seen in the quartersawn cut is almost magical in the way it reflects its colors and depth. It is has a hardness factor of about 1100, african mahogany hardness is about 800 and red oak is at 1290. It is somewhat difficult to mill due to its interlocking grain. I can no longer obtain Sapele of this quality and have switched to Sipo for a similar look.
The door stile and rail are 45mm thick and the panel is 28 mm thick with 12mm x 7 mm deep grooves routed on 32mm centers. stile and rail connections are traditional mortise and tenon. The doors are rather heavy so I opted for 4 - 4" SS ball bearing hinges per door.
Eiji
Well, I have 2 more orders of this door to build one is a pair of 3-0 with side lites and one is a single 3-0 with an operable side lite. I have built all the door frames that get glass so now I am working on the wood panels. The pics that follow show how to use the domino and MFT top for perfect glued up panels.
Stock prep is key. This stock is jointed and layed out for dominoes.
To the Domino. For domino mortising I prefer the speed of the kreg clamp. Some simple alterations to the holes in the MFT top accomodate the 5/16 bolt on the kreg bench clamp. (Carrey's idea)
Dominoed and ready for glue.
Stock prep is key. This stock is jointed and layed out for dominoes.
To the Domino. For domino mortising I prefer the speed of the kreg clamp. Some simple alterations to the holes in the MFT top accomodate the 5/16 bolt on the kreg bench clamp. (Carrey's idea)
Dominoed and ready for glue.
MFT top is protected with wax paper. I stack the boards in order and with the edge to recieve the dominos facing up. I place all the tenons needed for the glue up in a dish of glue. I insert the gluey tenons the apply a liberal amount of glue spreading it out with a trim roller. I prefer to insert the tenons before spreading the glue on the board edges so that the glue doesnt start to set up while placing the tenons. Next I place the last board in the panel order near the edge of the table and support it with a wooden clamp. In the proper order I then stack each board on top. After removing the support clamp I lay the panel flat and lightly clamp the edge of the panel to the MFT top. I then clamp across the joint. Clamping in this manner forces the panel tightly against the MFT top ensuring a flat panel.
