What I really did this Summer.... Fixed louvers revisited

[Gary Nichols]

Now, I'd like to say I have a more complete treatise to post about making louvered doors with my Domino, but the best I can do is this:

After staring at a pile of splintered Clear All Heart Redwood fascia boards for a month or two, I managed to garner... maybe not closure, but at least a minor amount of satisfaction and relaxation by shutting down my Mac, leaving the cordless phone inside, and stealing away to the garage to make something of a portion of this wood that was part of our home for 20 odd years.... like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, so to speak..... Remove the paint with my Performax 16-32 drum sander, then rip, joint & plane to dimension, and make a louvered door for the foundation crawl space and, of course, the Festool Domino was key to this project. You may notice the open crawlspace in the photo of the tree trunk in the driveway, with our black & white cat sitting in the opening. Have to look closely through the branches.

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Sorry for the lack of sequence photos; I did this more for self-therapy than for any article or competition.

On a brighter note, another daughter was married in April, and our son graduated from HS, we've reached a settlement on the jewelry and with building permit now in hand, we tear off the roof tomorrow, so it may be another spell before hearing from me again.

Gary Nichols

 

[Dan Clermont]

Hi Gary

Sorry to hear about the damage and jewelry theft. Nice job on the louvered doors and it looks like you won't need to buy any redwood for awhile or you can most likely sell the log to a logging company (we do that up here in British Columbia)

Congrats on the daughter getting married and also the son graduating from high school. Maybe you'll be building a redwood playhouse for the grand kids some time in the near future 

Cheers
Dan Clermont

 

[Gary Nichols]

Hi Dan,

If that had been a Redwood log, you can bet the old homestead that I'd have found someone to slab it out for me. There was enough log there to side a small cottage as well as that playhouse. Unfortunately, it was Cypress, and at the time, all we wanted was for it to be gone. With the number of trees that fell that day, once the tree was off our house, the cutting crew took their crane truck four doors down the street to remove a pine tree from another house.... they were busy for days, and it was fortunate that I called the tree service even before calling 911.... 

As for grandchildren, our oldest daughter has been married eight years now, but faints at the sight of blood, and still has dreams about her appendectomy, so I'm not holding my breath. At least not anytime soon.

Gary Nichols