Need a design suggestion

Just out of curiosity, is this a window that opens? IE: a split window with a top and bottom half that slide to open and close?

Like I say, I’m just curios. I like the idea and will be following along to see what happens!

Good Luck!

-- Kenny

Doors are a bit of work and eat up the board feet of wood.Questions I would ask myself would be:Do I want to spend the money,Do I have the tools or bit set to build a door,Do I have the time,Do i have a source for the glass? Sorry to ask the question with a question.

Make it a transom window?

-- Willie, Washington "If You Choose Not To Decide, You Still Have Made a Choice" - Rush

I am embarrassed to admit that I pretty much have a wood shop capable of building a space ship to the moon with all left handed threads. My problem is talent. I have built many things with a plan but do not do well with my own designs.

IT is a replacement widow that slides up from the bottom and down from the top in a vinyl casing. I could certainly purchase a door cheaper and easier but that is not a requisite. I am looking for a project that will hone my skills and produce something useful for me and my shop.

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If you are building a shop door, it doesn’t have to be pretty, just functional. Since you already have a window, I’d lay it on the bench and build a door around it. I’d use treated two by eights or tens for rails and stiles, What ever it takes to fill up the door frame. For actual door construction ideas, watch some old westerns. They had some doors with windows, and they were simply made but stronger than any wood door you can buy today. If you are worried about security, you can put all the extra bracing that you want on the inside, and put seven dead bolts on it, too. You can put as much money as you want into it. I can’t give you a detailed plan, I don’t work that way, anyhow. I tend to just pull it out of my ass as I go along. It works for me. I am positive that I could take your window and less than $50 in lumber and hardware, and build a perfectly seviceable door. It probably wouldn’t be too terribly ugly, either. I’ve been building things out of the scrap pile for years, either out of necessity, or because i had something in the way, that was to good to throw out, and I made up a use for it, like your window. It’s really no big deal. You can do anything want. This doesn’t even sound that hard. Good luck.

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Use framing lumber with bridle joints for the rails and stiles.

-- Bondo Gaposis

Thanks Randy! That is my position as well. I was needing a little inspiration and encouragement since it is a rather expensive window that for a lot of reasons I do not need to use in its intended purpose, cannot return it, and I need a project. Not being a journeyman but a wannabe wood worker kind of hastens my attempts but it will not stop it.

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Excellent suggestion for a joint, Bondo!

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