This door is The Entradero House Entrance Door

This beautiful entrance door is called
The Entradero House Entry Door
It is made of solid vertical grain Old Growth Redwood
It is 42" x 84" x 1-3/4"
It has birds-eye burl panels
with a Redwood Dentil shelf

with stained glass by Zoleta Lee Designs

This beautiful door is a symphony of grain, textures, and colors.
The vertical grain door frames the complex burl panels,
and the Tiffany Style stained glass displays the season of Fall.

The eyebrow adds adds a unique design detail that has been innovated and perfected by a hardworking craftsman at Mendocino Doors

The stained glass was designed by the client and Zoleta Lee Designs

Here is a backlit view of the stylized Autumn leaves

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The panels are a quilted, curly, and "birds-eye" Redwood

Here is a close-up of the beautiful panels

Here is a close-up of the Dentil Shelf

Here is a front view of the Dentil Shelf

The shelf is attached with stainless steel screws and capped with a Rosewood diamond cap

Zoeys stained glass is actually encased in a clear tempered glass insulated unit

Looking down and seeing the door from another view

........... one hot door !!

Here is the provenance of the making of this beautiful custom Entry Door

Here is the final drawing ........... how'd I do?

Here is the door after its' first oiling

We made the jambs long before I started the door ......... no problem

so I shipped them off to be installed while we made their beautiful door

and it's off to the clients new home

here is a scanned image of the end grain, showing the vertical grain of the Redwood used to make the Entradero door.

the rough lumber is straightened, flattened, then planed

I made a template for the gentle arc

then used the band saw to cut it out

I cut the top and the mid-rail to the same arc

the used my 100 year old compass plane to shape the final arc

here I fit the final pieces

then we flatten and clamp up the door

and clean all the excess glue and "tooth brush" the corners

the door will stay in clamps for at least three full days.

nice tight joints !

here I am making templates for the stained glass

and signing my our next door

with pride

we oil our door frames four different times before we add the panels

and the varnish oil brings the wood to life

here we are are rough sanding the bookmatched panels

then shaping and adding the chamfered bevel

and Sun Ray finishes the panels to a furniture grade finish

and hand sanding the chamfer detail

what an "electric" grain

here are the book matched panels, before our varnish oil

and here we apply the varnish oil

we oil the panels 3 to 4 times

each coat cures at least 3 days

Here I am making the eyebrow. It is bent laminated Redwood

and here is the finished product

time to start putting it all together

I'm adding the Rosewood pins to suspend the eyebrow off of the door

here is where the "eyebrow" mounts to the door

and we oil the "eyebrow" and dentil shelf at least 3 times with Our varnish oil

Now it's time to cut a fit the curved stops

first we figure the angle

then cut each stop individually for a perfect fit

each panel floats behind the stop and is free to move on its' own

we caulk the panels with a clear drying siliconized latex caulking

the templates fit well ......... where is the glass?

Here Zoey designs the glass for the clients approval

from this drawing

........ to this beautiful glass

here is the center panels

and the right panel

here I'm clamping the dentil posts

and here I'm gluing on the "eyebrow"

here are the dentil posts ready for the dentil shelf

I precut the stops while I was waiting for the glass to be insulated

and here they are ....... the stained glass encased in tempered glass

the right side

here are all the pieces, ready to install

What a beauty !!

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