This Door is called
The Taos Entry Door
It is 36" x 80" x 1-3/4"
It is VG Old Growth Redwood
with bookmatched Birds-Eye Redwood Panels.
The Stained Glass is copper foiled stained glass
by Joanne Fagerskog

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This Door has a Very unique characteristic ..... ALL of the wood used in the styles and rails (framework) came from the same tree of salvaged Old Growth Redwood.
This is for Jamb Depth and Hinge Placement. Please print out, fill in, and fax to me
The wood in this door is exceptionally fine grain .......... and .......
is no longer available for purchase on the retail market

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The vertical mid rail is "locked" with a mortised dovetail of Desert Iron Wood
......... why ? ............. why not !!

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This locking dovetail is Desert Ironwood
The panels are rare bookmatched
Birds-Eye Old Growth Redwood
The glass is hand crafted ..... using Tiffany style construction with reinforced copper foil with many different textured and beveled pieces of clear and colored glass.


Click Here to see another view of the beautiful stained glass

Here the History of the making of this door !!

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Here are scanned images of the end grain of the Redwood used in
The Taos Door
please notice how exceptionally fine and tight the end grain is ....... Please enlarge and count the "growth rings" ....... each ring indicates 1 full year of growth.
Imagine ........ 40 years to grow 1 inch ...... and these trees averaged 8 to 12 ft though and some much larger ........... still think we're the "most important" being ??

Here is the rough lumber .... please notice the weather worn and burnt edges. This is from laying on the forest floor for over 100 years ......... the rescued ....... and brought to life !!


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Here the door will stay in clamps for 72 hrs

Here are the bookmatched Birds-Eye panels being clamped

Here I am laying out the locking dovetail

....... hmm ..... how will it look?


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I make a "jig" to lay it out precisely

This is the first stem and the I go deeper .... but that's for "the book" .......

Here is a very rare piece of Desert Ironwood that was given to me by my "master" over 35 years ago ...... and it was worn and cracked then/

Jason resawn some planks (I wetted) and we glued on longer sticks so we could sand it in the dimensional sander


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Here is the template for the "bow tie dovetail"

Here are the book matched panels ...... soaking up one of the 4 coats of varnish oil.


Click Here to see another view of the beautiful stained glass

 

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