This beautiful entry is called The Lake Forest Grand Entry The Mahogany Door is 44" x 86" and the overall opening is approximately 90" wide and 112" high with a 23" high transom, It has all beveled glass within VG Mahogany frames. The glistening prisms are 3/4" thick Starphire glass and was hand beveled by Kent Lauer of Los Angeles

	Here is the completed Lake Forest Grand Entry
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	Below is the provenance of the making of this beautiful Grand Entry
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here are the two sidelights and transom curing between coats of varnish-oil
		signed with pride
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		here the door cures between coats of varnish-oil		........ and we can start placing the glass in the transom
				some of the wood for the jamb system came from boards bigger then SunRay
here we are contructing parts for the jamb system Click On Images To Enlarge The Starphire glass is truly amazing The beautiful Starphire Glass was hand beveled by master glass artist Kent Lauer of Los Angeles Here is the 3/4" thick Starphire Glass after Kent hand beveled the "block" of glass Click On Images To Enlarge Each Stop were hand cut and fitted, so we needed to use flat dental floss so we could pull out the stops to bed and caulk them thus and excess of "fitting floss" !! All of the dual-pane beveled glass was crafted by Western States Glass and each piece was inspected by Sean and SunRay
we bed the glass with a siliconized latex which turns clear when cured				The large jamb system was oiled with 3-4 coats of our Varnish-Oil
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