This is
The Gulf Coast Dolphin Project Entry Door
It is made of Old Growth Redwood (salvaged)
with Redwood burl panels.
It is 36" x 80" x 1-3/4"
The Dolphin stained glass is encased in tempered glass.
We will donate all profits to a fund benefiting Marine Life in the Gulf of Mexico
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The completed Dolphin Door
another view !
Every lunch break we would sit and watch the oil gushing out of the wellhead and dumping millions of barrels of crude oil into the world of millions of living creatures .................
so I happen to have this stained glass window of "dancing" Dolphins
We decided to design and make a door .......... offer it for sale ............ and if it should be purchased we will donate all profits to a fund benefiting Marine Life in the Gulf of Mexico.

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This stained glass is encased in virgin Redwood and the door was made to "show off" this window.
Here is a reflection of the glass on a cloth behind it
. here is another view

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The panels have curly figuring and burl Redwood
this very tight curl is called quilted
the lower panels are bookmatched redwood burl

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The irredized outer glass reminds me of the sheen of oil on water
I hope the sale of this door will help the wildlife that suffered the disasters caused by man.


Below is the "History" of the making of this beautiful door
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Here I scanned the end grain of some of the boards used to make this door. Please notice how tight the vertical grain is.
The old growth Redwood is now rarer then DIAMONDS OR GOLD
each growth ring (or line) is 1 year of growth. This board took a couple of hundred years to grow. REMEMBER (please) all of our Old Growth Redwood has come from salvaged trees left on the forest floor for over 1 hundred years

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Here is the door laid out
here I am cutting the arched pieces
all cut by hand

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then hand planed for a nice flowing curve
the off to be shaped with a chamfered edge detail
here is the wood glued up for the glass panel

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here is the door ruffed out and ready to glue up
here the door is in clamps and we cleaned the corners with a tooth brush and water
clean ...... and clean again

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then cleaned again
here is the door in clamps ........ and we let it cure for 2-3 days .... no hurry to do it right.
here is the door out of clamps and ready to sand

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The panel for the stained glass being machined and fitted
holy cow ........ it fits !!

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here I am gluing the bookmatched quilted Redwood for the arched panels
here is the book matched Redwood burl about to made into panels
here Zoey shaves off the glue before it becomes brittle and cuts my hands

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it is still workable
Here the panels are fitted and soon to be machined
Here I am cutting the arch in the mid-panel

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Here are the lower panels ready to sand
Here I am machining the mid arched panel
The dark stripes reminded me of the Gulf Coast

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Here Zoey chip-carved around the glass frame
All the panels are machined to a furniture finish
and hand sanded to perfection

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..... amazing .............
what beautiful Redwood ....... with a mineral stain (dark stripes) which reminded me of the spill on the pristine Gulf Coast
Here is the door before its' first coat of varnish oil

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Each door receive 4 coats of our varnish oil
and each door is oiled outside under "our" Redwoods ...... a view from where the door lays !!
The stained glass panel is finish sanded

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just before oiling
and after ...... whatdoyathink??
we even soak the stops in our oil ....... 4 different times

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