This is The Gulf Coast Dolphin Entrance Door

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



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


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


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

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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


..... 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


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


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


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