The door is The Mitchell Creek Entrance Door It is made of Knotty Redwood with Redwood Burl and "cats paw" panels with hand beveled cobalt blue glass It is 36" x 78" x 1-3/4"

	Here is the completed door ~ it's a beauty !!
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here is the original "ideas" drawing				another view and ready to hang
Here is the glass viewed with backlight		so warm and welcoming		It is Diamante Starfire with cobalt glass laminated to the Starfire
This light blue piece of Starfire is beveled on both sides		Here, the top panels are Old Growth Redwood with a "cats paw" figuring		see why it is called "cats paw"
more of the top view		The glass is a full 1" thick and it is hand beveled and polished.		I added a Rosewood detail block to "fill" in some extra space.
This door will have an Emtek keypad touch lock		another view to feed your senses !		Here are the lower Redwood Burl panels. I really like the Knotty Redwood to add to the design
and a closer view		a picture of the upper panels		Here is a view of the Inside of the door
It will have polished Brass hardware on the inside		The center glass is beveled on two sides		this is really a rich dark cobalt blue
Here is a close up of the Rosewood Detail		and on the top also		I really like the end result
Here is a view of the inside burl panels. They are all bookmatched		and individually amazing		and the center panel goes "bang"
	Here is the provenance of the making of this elegant door.
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Here is the final door I presented to my client ...... he loved it !				I had some knotty Redwood I had saved from a log fallen on my land
here is the "diamond" after machining		I glued it together first.		here is the door frame being laid out
laying out more pieces		and the top half		well here's a duplicate picture
Here I'm fitting the "diamond"		the we bore for splined tennons		and the I fit the horizontal rails
and I start to glue up all the pieces. Note I have a temporary piece in the center to keep it from collapsing with pressure		here are the short mullions		that fit into the mid vertical rails
and here we start to glue up this tricky door		here is the door clamped up with 15 clamps		the we clean up all the excess glue
after curing in in clamps for 4 days, it comes out of clamps		here I'm sanding the burl for the center "diamond"		here's a close-up
isn't it beautiful ?		the Zoey starts hand sanding, even before we have a bench available		here are all the lower panels fitted before finishing
Here is a little Rosewood insert that I placed above and bellow the hand beveled glass		Nice touch		Here the panels are being sanded to a furniture finish
here we are had fitting and cutting the complex stops		and all of the molded edges are hand sanded		here the panels are oiled with 4 coats of varnish oil
the oil soaks in and cures for 3-4 days before the next oiling		here is the door, completely sanded and ready to oil		and the Rosewood insert is finished too
there were some small voids which I decided to seal with clear epoxy. It worked well.		I filled a couple of other voids		Here is the umbrella under which we oiled our doors
Here the door is being oiled by Akili		The door will be oiled with 4 coats of varnish oil		and it cured for at least 3 days between coats
		and here is the final coat. Each coat saturates the door for at least 1-1/2 hrs
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