Another Arbor

Wow, where do you live? I want to move so I can be your neighbor. Another great looking arbor. Thanks for sharing Lee.

-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.

I want to be your neighbor to!

-- Betsy - GO BUCKS!

Outstanding work Lee, thaks for sharing your work and you have one lucky neighbor.

-- Rick, Jackson, TN "Do What You Like. Like What You Do" Life Is Good

this is awesome.

Gosh.. sure does beat the trellis material!! Fantastic.

And how did you get all the details?

(Betsy: love your ID .. )

-- "Functional WoodArt" by Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Great job!

Thanks for the post

Callum

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Great attention to detail very nice !

-- Rj's Woodworks,San Jose & Weed Ca,

Great detail and design. You did a beautiful job on this piece. Thanks for posting.

God Bless
tom

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

Ditto what Tom said!

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

Thank you for your enthusiastic responses folks. Kinda re-inforces whether or not your design of a project is a success or not which for me is always a question mark until I hear the opinion of others.

Lee

-- Lee

The detail looks time comsuming. (great, I have the time) How do you cut this out, with a bandsaw or a scroll saw? Did you use 3/4 material or 1/2” material. How did you finish yours’. How deep is the post in the ground? I would like to make this for our back yard coming out from the screened pool area. Do you need the supports on the top, my would be up against the screen where the screen door is mounted. This looks like a great project and you have done a great job.

-- Dominic, Trinity, Florida...Lets be safe out there.

Incredible !! the design looks like it would make an awesome stained glass project….. is the Spruce kept off of the ground in any way to avoid rotting ? I know you said it was painted , but ground contact / moisture has its way of getting in : ( Great job and you have one lucky neighbor : )

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Dominic:

Firstly, the side posts are not in the ground. I set them on bricks so that the edge of the post is flush with the edge of the brick, then I drive a 3ft x 1/2” rebar into the ground next to the brick/post & attach the post to the post to the rebar with two U-bolts. This prevents the arbor from absorbing water at the bottom of the posts with rot to follow. The finish I used on my front arbor was 4 coats of Bengamin Moore Alkyd enamel which is fast drying water based & lasted 5 years before needing refreshing with two coats this year & it now looks new again. You would not need angled supports at the top if the top is attached to the screen. The angled supports on mine keep it square due to free standing in the yard.
I built mine from salvaged 2×4’s & using water resistant glue laminated them up for the end posts then trimmed the resultant post to final dimension. For the grill work I resawed the 2×4’s & thickness planed them to 3/4”, then laminated them together with waterproof glue to 1-1/2” thickness, then ripped these to 3/4” x 1-1/2” strips . Where the strips intersect in the design, lap joints were used. The grills are enclosed in a frame & dowelled. The finished grill is then dowelled into the arbor framework starting at the bottom with the 6” High grillwork, frame cross piece, then grill panel, then frame cross piece, then 6” H grill, cross piece then grill panel & so on to the top. Hope this is clearer than mud.

Lee

-- Lee

Dominic: I forgot to mention the reason for laminating up the 3/4” x 1-1/2” strips. I was concerned if I used solid wood that weathering would cause splitting with hunks falling off the arbor. The laminating approach seems to have done the trick.

Lee

-- Lee

great job

-- jeanmarc manosque france

This will enhance any yard, garden, or walkway! Extremely well done!

-- Rich, Seattle, WA

Beautiful…
Everyone wants to be your neighbor and I nearly am, I’m just over in Sherwood Park. It’s good to see another local.

-- WoodChucker, Sherwood Park, Alberta

lee your works are very unique.
It nice to see a different perspective for this type of work.
Thanks for the posts.

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

Lovely work. Very nice design and I am NOT going to show this to the missus, HA! Again, gorgeous arbor.

always,
J.C.

-- "Imagination is more important than knowledge" -- Albert Einstein

Again….thank you for your comments folks. They gladden the heart of a hobbyist muchly.

-- Lee