For those of you who don't know, Wood Mag and Freud are sponsoring an interior door making contest. First prize is a trip to Venice along with a tour of the Freud plant.
I decided to move our closet door project up the honey-do-list to enter the contest because the LOML has always wanted to go to Italy, and I thought it'd be an interesting project. Since I've never made one, I thought it'd fun to chronicle the progress. So here's the first installment of the very early goings.
My door is 24" wide x 80" tall. It'll be made with a red oak cope and stick frame and flat butternut panels with vertical beads. Here's a very rough layout of the basic parts loosely fitted just to get a feel for the dimensions.
Here's a glimpse of the 3 rails after routing the cope and tenon in the ends. The top and bottom rails will have arches, which I still need to rout the channel in.
The sheer size and weight of the styles requires the use of of featherboards to help keep the piece tight to the fence and table during the routing of the groove for the tenons and panels. It went pretty smoothly once I got going on it.
Here's a dry fit of the rails and styles, as well as an attempt to get rough length of the butternut panel pieces.
The hardest part so far has been getting a nice straight piece for the 7' x 1-3/8" styles. The routing has gone fairly well so far.....it's a long way from done though! More to come...
I decided to move our closet door project up the honey-do-list to enter the contest because the LOML has always wanted to go to Italy, and I thought it'd be an interesting project. Since I've never made one, I thought it'd fun to chronicle the progress. So here's the first installment of the very early goings.
My door is 24" wide x 80" tall. It'll be made with a red oak cope and stick frame and flat butternut panels with vertical beads. Here's a very rough layout of the basic parts loosely fitted just to get a feel for the dimensions.
Here's a glimpse of the 3 rails after routing the cope and tenon in the ends. The top and bottom rails will have arches, which I still need to rout the channel in.
The sheer size and weight of the styles requires the use of of featherboards to help keep the piece tight to the fence and table during the routing of the groove for the tenons and panels. It went pretty smoothly once I got going on it.
Here's a dry fit of the rails and styles, as well as an attempt to get rough length of the butternut panel pieces.
The hardest part so far has been getting a nice straight piece for the 7' x 1-3/8" styles. The routing has gone fairly well so far.....it's a long way from done though! More to come...
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