
A set of hard to get screen doors for Anderson exterior french doors. This ‘beginning’ shows the production of the rails and styles with embedded metal to brace the doors to help with any possible sagging. The unusual thing about it is that as I was going to weld up some flat bar into an L shape, I instead found some $2 framing squares which looked exactly like what I would have made. View the short video of the start of these doors. The video begins after I have cut up and straightened the pine that will be used.
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sandhill
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#1 posted 411 days ago
Great idea, I just bought a house in VA and have 3 French doors I need to make screens for. Let me know how it turns out I may try one if my wife can hold out until my shop is done.
gfadvm
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#2 posted 411 days ago
Where did you find a $2 framing square? Probably not a Starret, huh?
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#3 posted 411 days ago
gfadvm:
A local store called Mardens. They buy up stores that have been in flood damage, bankruptcy, etc. Then sell it at a discount. Same place I bought the 99 cent Bessey clamps in a previous forum topic I did. I cruise the isles once a week for deals and miss-pricing. Some neat things come up sometimes. I have a very nice 48” Stanley Level. One of those kyellow fat max ones, for $4.99 that I found there last year. Right now they’ve got a huge shelf of 16 and 18 gauge and pin nails of various sizes for a couple bucks a box. I stocked up. You never know what you’ll find.
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ellen35
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#4 posted 410 days ago
Dan,
What an ingenious idea to strengthen the doors. And it was cheap too!
Ellen
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gfadvm
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#5 posted 410 days ago
Thanks for the reply. Wish we had that store here!
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rodman40
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#6 posted 401 days ago
Dan, What’s the name of the piano music???
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#7 posted 401 days ago
Rod, I don’t think it has a name. I just drop all my picts into imovie and choose music from either itunes or a public domain set of sounds/music in imovie provided by Apple. In his case it’s the provided music. The program itself is a cinch to use. I can put this together in a few minutes.
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