This pair of doors are called
The Chapel Hill Entry Doors
Each door is 36" wide x 94" tall.
They are Redwood with Redwood panels
and clear insulated glass.

Here are the completed doors
More completed pictures to come soon !!


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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

then cut and laid out

then machined

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a "dry fit" ...... perfect

then the doors are glued up

and glue is removed ... even clean the corners with a tooth brush

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the doors cure in clamps for 72 hrs

........ just out of clamps

then machine sanding

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a touch up under lighted surface

more sanding

every molded surface is hand sanded 3 times ...... 3 times.

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the panel faces are sanded

then paired for glue up

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then it goes into my vacuum press for 3 days

rough panels

machined panels

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such beautiful Old Growth Redwood

all details are always hand sanded

perfect under a bright light !!

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before oil and after

each panel will cure for 3 days, to be oiled again ........ and again

here are the story poles from the jambs I made months earlier

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mortised for hinges

and signed with pride

here is one of the door frames curing between oiling

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the handsome couple

the astragal stock ..... straight as an arrow

I make each astragal

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slowly

and carefully

the finished shape

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and it will have weatherstripping

oiling the astragal

here are the doors, panels, and astragal being oiled all at once


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