door number 40

Nice looking job!

Are you selling it as a kit?. I just mention that since you have posted it as a completed project and not in a blog.

I like your choice of wood.

-- It's better to have people think you're stupid rather than open your mouth and remove all doubt.

I am unable to post the pics as a blog-

It’s very easy. Just upload your pictures to a website like Photobucket. They cut and paste their “Direct Link”
into you blog with an exclamation point at each end.

Here is an example with spaces on each end example:

! http://lumberjocks.com/assets/pictures/projects/60286-438x.jpg?1239311959 !

Just remove the spaces at the start and end and you end up with:

-- It's better to have people think you're stupid rather than open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Thanks Miket,
Dealing with photobucket is something I have not done before. People ask me all the time for pics of this and that and I usually request an email address and attach photo. I just took a couple of quick snapshots this afternoon before the door gets fully assembled to show some of the joinery. Also, because I stay in my shop continuously cranking this kind of stuff out, I don’t go in the field and have very few pics of my many projects installed and in use. I do sell kits to other woodworkers and woodworking companies, but this particular door will be installed next week by someone else. The Pueblo house is a one of a kind energy efficient landmark structure. I was chosen to do the millwork because all of the wood I am using was killed in the same fire that destroyed the original house. There has been tremendous airplay and goodwill over how this house is being built or “rising from the ashes” We’ll try photobucket. Thanks for the hint.

I’d like to learn more too…........... Pledase do a blog on how you build these doors.

-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps

Wow, that’s a nice looking door and a great story too. I’m building my first door right now. I wish I would watch you work for a day. I’m curious about that aluminum monorail system you mentioned. How does that work? I also noticed with the exception of the loose tenons on top and bottom your tenons aren’t very long. I did some reading before starting my door and long tenons seemed to be important. I don’t mean to be critical, but can you tell me about that? I’ve been digging out some pretty deep mortises and maybe I don’t need to? Thanks for any wisdom you can share.

-- Steve, Portland, OR

Cabinetmaster:
I am not sure I will have time to blog on this particular door. All I can tell you is, the client came to me with a 1” tall picture from a page in a designer magazine and said he wanted a door that looked like “this” to fit his entry from fire killed materials with a sculpted finish that we are known for. It is a one off door, as are all of my custom doors. No 2 are alike. I have to assemble and finish this door by tomorrow and deliver Monday with 6 more equally individually challenging doors to be delivered in the next 3 weeks. Interior doors are pretty much standard mortise and tenon frame, raised or flat panel, set in dados. I use a combination of stub tenons and floating tenons at key joints.
Iheartwood: Do the math, glue joint surface area combined rail to stile not to mention all the eggcrate construction in between the two. This particular door design has 8 rail stile connections, where as a normal door might have 2-3. The frame on this thing is really rigid. As far as the 16 panels in this door, it is very important that they all float freely on this monorail system, which is really nothing more than a petite tongue and groove turned upside down, so as to absolutely not catch or hold water. Anything I build in the way of gates or exterior doors uses this design to ensure no water will be held in the door even if you focus a garden hose on it. The wider panels themselves are constructed with a rip and flip method from the same piece of wood to balance out any movement The panels are held with a single pin at the top. Hope this helps. Rob

That’s really nice Rob!

-- Carl Rast, Pelion, SC

Hi Rob;

A great set of photos.

Looks like glue up will be a real pain in the neck though.

Lee

-- by Lee A. Jesberger http://www.prowoodworkingtips.com http://www.ezee-feed.com

Lee , yes the glue up order caused me to scratch my head a little bit , so I decided to do it in three stages .
I also prefinish the panels for endgrain integrity . Anyway in a couple of hours I should be ripping the 3 degree opening edge -

VERY nice! I’d love to see a finished & installed pic.

-- Brent (Table saws worry about kickback from Chuck Norris)