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Here are the
completed doors
More completed pictures to come soon !!
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Click on Any Image to
Enlarge
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Here is the provenance of the making
of the Chapel Hill Entry Doors
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Here the rough wood is
surfaces
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then cut and laid out
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then machined
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a "dry fit" ...... perfect
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then the doors are glued up
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and glue is removed ... even clean the corners with
a tooth brush
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the doors cure in clamps for 72 hrs
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........ just out of clamps
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then machine sanding
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a touch up under lighted surface
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more sanding
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every molded surface is hand sanded 3 times ...... 3
times.
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the panel faces are sanded
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then paired for glue up
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then it goes into my vacuum press for 3
days
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rough panels
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machined panels
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such beautiful Old Growth Redwood
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all details are always hand sanded
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perfect under a bright light !!
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before oil and after
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each panel will cure for 3 days, to be oiled again
........ and again
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here are the story poles from the jambs I made
months earlier
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mortised for hinges
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and signed with pride
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here is one of the door frames curing between
oiling
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the handsome couple
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the astragal stock ..... straight as an
arrow
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I make each astragal
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slowly
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and carefully
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the finished shape
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and it will have weatherstripping
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oiling the astragal
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here are the doors, panels, and astragal being oiled
all at once
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RETURN
TO WORK IN PROGRESS
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