This Entry Door is called The Dogwood Entry It is a 36" x 80" arched top Old Growth Redwood Door with 2-16" sidelights. The door has a stained glass window of flowering Dogwood. The glass was designed by my beautiful wife Zoleta of ZoletaLeeDesigns.com and the glass is crafted by Jan Hinson of Albion

Here is the completed The Dogwood Entry Here is the completed The Dogwood Entry on its' new home
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The sidelights complement the door also.		The finished door is stunning.		View of another sidelight.
		Clasp of the Tiffany Style Stained Glass.		Here my wife is designing the stained glass window. As you can see she love's designing and now crafting the stained glass.
The stained glass black lit.		A closer look at the glass panel.
	Below is the provenance of the creation of the beautiful door.
The original drawing for the Entry Way.		The original drawing for the Dogwood stained glass as drawn by Zoleta Lee		This Photo show's the tight grain in the The Old Growth Redwood used to make the door and sidelights.
This is more of the Old Growth Redwood used in the making of the Entry Door and Sidelights.		This is a photo of the Entry Way from the outside before The Beautiful Dogwood Entry Way was installed.		This is a photo from the inside of the Entry Way before the Dogwood Entry was installed.
Yet another photo of the happy Designer!				Hand Cutting of the arched top in the Entry Door.
Just about there.........		Here I am hand planning the curved top in the Entry Way.		Here I am fitting the door before it is to be glued.
Fitting often takes		Here we are laying out the doors and sidelight in order to get just the right curve.		Cutting the curved top in the sidelight.
Looks like we got just the right curve.		Ready to hand plane.		Here I am hand planning.
After the final fitting the doors will be ready to glue up.		Here the gluing process begins.		The Door will lay here for 72 hours.
These sidelights have been fitted for the last time and are ready to be glued up.		In this photo we are beginning the gluing up of the sidelights.		One more to go.
All three pieces are glued up and will sit for 72 hours.		Here we are cleaning up the glue, making sure every corner is clean.		Fresh out of the clamps the sidelights are ready to be sanded.
Out of clamps this door will soon be sanded.		Hand sanding on the door to get a fine finish.		Here we are machine hand sanding.
Here we are machine hand sanding the door.		And here we are hand sanding the molded detail.		Just about ready to be oiled.
Here we are boring for hinges.		This is a photo of the templets for the windows in the sidelights.		Ready for its first oiling.
Look at the tight grain in the Old Growth Redwood used in the door and sidelights.		The oil really brings out the Natural Beauty in the wood.		Just Grand!
We oil our doors 3 to 4 times.		The door will hang for three days between oiling.		The sidelights are ready to be oiled.
We oil all our door's, sidelights, transom's and carvings under the Redwood Canopy.				The thick veneer is being run through the dimensional sander.
These panels are just out of the vacuum press.		Machining the beveled edge of the panel.		Look at the ribbons in the panels.
These are going to be some hot panels.		Ready to be oiled.
Just Beautiful!		The panels are just amazing.		These panels are just about ready to oiled too.
The smaller panels are looking just wonderful after being oiled.		The glass is being delivered.
Look a the stunning glass.		Just Beautiful work. This was one of the last few pieces to be done by this glass Artist. What a team Zoleta and Jan made.		Ready to be fit in the glass.
The stops are being cut and fitted.		The stops are cut and fitted.		Here is the glass to go in the sidelights.
The curves were captured in the glass as well as the wood.		The glass is being fitted in the sidelights.		The wood for the jambs are being planed.
Ready to glue up the jambs.		In this photo the jambs are glued up.
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