I'm finally getting to one of my "roundtuit" jobs, making doors for the opening between my shop and Garage. I built the shop/garage about 5 years ago and there has been a tarp hanging in the door ever since. It's a small shop at 500 sq ft but when needed I can use the garage. It has an exhaust fan for when I'm finishing and it serves as my spray booth. I also bring all my raw materiels through the orifice between the shop and garage. Well for those same 5 years I have wanted to build the doors for that opening, and not just any doors, doors that would do the rest of the shop's trim justice. See I got carried away with the trim out of the shop with the wife's blessing. I have all doug fir trim with doug fir beadboard wainscotting. Did I mention how much I love doing trim work! It was such fun! What I had envisioned was a pair of Doug Fir doors reminiscent of the old 1940's school or office doors. Flat wood panel n the bottom with reeded glass on the top.
Last Christmas break I got the lumber and rough dimensioned the boards. These boards started out as 8/4 x 12 x 12' rough sawn verticle grain doug fir. Gorgeous lumber! Two months ago I finally got back to them and started in ernest on the doors. I started by finish dimensioning the lumber. The two doors were designed to be 36 and 18 inches wide by 7' tall by 1.5 inches thick.
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The doors were all to be mortice and tennoned. I have a PM719A morticer that I love to use. The movable tables and materiel clamp make the stand alone model so much more user friendly than the benchtop models. For the doors I used my 3/8" chisel to cut the 3/4 inch mortices by making two passes and rotating the lumber thereby assuring centered mortices. My tablesaw temmoning jig made short work of cutting the tennons. Each tennon was finish fitted with my LV shoulder plane (that I won last year at Ray Thompsons Indy Fest).
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The bottom rail at 11+ inches wide required a double tennon which I made by marking out directly off the mortices and used the bandsaw & chisels to finish.
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That made me a nice little pile of boards ready for assembly.
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I'll continue the door project in my next post on this thread.
Mac