Garden Gate

hey Henry
Cool gate well done

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

I think you did a fantastic job!!! Just beautiful and a lovely addition to a yard

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

I like it!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Great looking job Henry did you use a bandsaw or router for the arch? Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

Perfect timing! I’ve been trying to sell my sweety on the notion that our back gates need to be higher (we’ve been seeing more deer in the neighborhood recently), and she said “only if it’s got some sort of circular cutout so it’s more inviting”. Bingo: I have an example to show her!

-- Dan Lyke, Petaluma California, http://www.flutterby.net/User:DanLyke

looks really good. How did you do the arch? Cut segments?

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.

I like your planning to make the circle as a picture frame of the hose behind the trees. I’m sure it is not by chance

-- Eli Adamit, Israel

The arch is made from five section of 4×6 lumber. I used two splices with titebond to connect each section. It didn’t hold. I atcually regluded and added bigger splices up to four times for some sections. It just wasn’t strong enough. I eventually used liquidnails construction adhesive on a couple. I also think the wood was still too wet for the wood glue. Lessons learned and no one has to know.
I also made a simple elliptical jig to draw the oval and cut it on a bandsaw.

-- HenryH - PA

beautifull gate !
we live and learn from our trials .
everytime i do gate/fence work ,
i am saddened that the hardware folks are stiil in the last century with their junk ,
as if there was only one way to make and use a gate !

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

I am in need of a gate for the side of my house and you just helped me decide how it should look. Copying is a form of flattery, I hope you don’t mind me copying you. Just one thing I must make different, the diagonal brace to help the gate stay square, I think I will rotate it. one end at the lower hinge and the other end by the latch. If I was to use tensioned wire, it would be just like you have there.

Hobbitses love the rounded doorses.

Cool design.

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