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Here is my version of an arts and crafts front entry door in QSWO. I wanted a door with curved corbels supporting the dentil shelf, however couldn't find one commercially. The side stiles are solid 8/4 stock, while the rails and tapered center stile are laminated from two pieces of 5/4 oak.
The tenons are 3" long, and the floating panels are 1" thick. I followed the basic techniques in a recent Fine Woodworking article, but added a tapered center stile, dentil shelf, and leaded glass. One other change was the addition of self-adhesive weatherstripping around the floating panels. This is fairly soft foam, which will allow for expansion and contraction within the grooves.
The glass was custom ordered with dark caming and includes baroque, clear bevel, and seedy style glass. The panes fit inside a rabbet and are held in place with urethane caulking and glass stops. The original glass order perished in a train derailment in Wolfe Point, Montana (ouch). Although reordering glass added four weeks to the project, the glass came out just as I had hoped!
A large hammered craftsman style lockset completes the look.

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Nice looking door. Looks solid and heavy. What did you finish it with?
Also, I've been working in a Duluth apron like yours for a month now. Love it.
 

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Looks very solid as well as beautiful.
 

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Love it!
I bet it took you AND your two helpers to get it from the shop to the front of the house, that has to be one heavy door.
 

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That is a work of art! I've always wanted to build doors, now I'm inspired! - Nice work!

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Very nice, I really like it. What type of finish did you use?
 

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Tim H. and Bondo,
The finish is an oil based stain - Rodda #19 thinned slightly - and topped with three coats of Deft Satin Polyurethane which was sprayed on.
Here are a couple more pictures.





 

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Very nice and well done…! My favorite style of door. Years ago I owned an arts & Crafts house built in 1920. It was by far my all time favorite house and style.
 

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Very well done! Best door I have seen in a long time.
 

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Very Handsome in appearance
 

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Great looking door !
 

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Great work. I love the details - the shelf, the custom glass, everything!
 

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Great job on a beautiful looking door.
 

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Excellent! Thanks for the pics of the process. I intend a similar style for myself and have been letting my subconsious ruminate over many techniques to use. Your using the weather strip as a spaceball thing in the door is very interesting. Thanks I now have more to ponder.
 

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Very nice young man !!.....I also need to make an entry door and in the A&C style….I may be calling for info like which issue of FWW had a door build ?
 

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rlance,
It was the June 2012 issue of Fine Woodworking that had the door article. It had some good information.

Jagwah,
I suppose the weatherstripping acted like a space ball to some degree. The wide floating panels are one 12" wide board and are glued at the center only. I added the weatherstripping to prevent the east wind from infiltrating the door. I did notice the weatherstripping automatically centered the panels during glueup, which was a great help.
 

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I have always wanted to make a door. Got a few books on it but have never attacked it yet. Yours is the type I would want to make. Great job and good photos. Thanks for sharing.
 
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