This exterior wooden door, made completely by hand using locally harvested white oak was commissioned by a local client. The family live in a beautiful ‘heritage property’ here in Toronto that comes along with certain benefits and possible grants to help finance portions of projects…
This past week I was visiting a friend in Cabbagetown and finally had a chance to swing by and get some shots of the Heritage door installed. What can I say? It looks amazing ! (if I do say so myself) This 160 lbs. quarter…
Another busy week around here, between book orders and life in the city it sometimes seems I can’t find enough hours in the day. (who can right?) The door is ‘complete’, and that’s the good news; I’ll save the bad news until the end of…
I’m just finishing off the door project and will have the last few coats of finish on by Sunday. I thought I’d show the process from earlier this week when I finally got around to the scroll detail underneath the window. To begin, I worked…
The first two days of the week was dedicated to the mouldings and I’m happy to say they’re complete…finally! Funny now thinking back to when I ordered my moulding planes from Philly Planes in England, I had some comments from readers wondering how they’d perform…
I was working on the heritage door the end of last week, the inside mouldings to be more specific. I was planning on getting into the final front window surrounds over the weekend but things didn’t pan out that way due to the fact that…
I had a pretty productive weekend here in the wood shop. I managed to get all of the main door panel mouldings made as well as mitering them for a dry fit. I also picked up the glass for the opening and was happy to…
These last few days I’ve been busy with the door project; with the main frame essentially complete I focused on the four door panels. These are solid Oak about 1 1/8″ thick and needed to be rabbeted on all four sides to slide into the…
The door build is getting back holding its pace and things are coming along as planed. For anyone following this project (Dan!) I should apologise for not updating sooner…wanted to get some of the other project down first. I left the door frame seven weeks…
I was just dumping my digital camera getting ready for vacation and realised I had some pics of the tenons being sawn for the door project. I’m using my 14″ Rip saw and my 12″ carcass both by Lie Nielsen. Here is some of the…
