Custom Panel Entry Doors - Storm Doors

Listing #5078 Listed on: 05/02/2019 Company Name: Hudson Cabinetmaking, Inc.
Name: Russell Huds Member
Website:   www.hudsoncabinetmaking.com

They wanted two, custom panel entry doors with matching storm doors for their country home. He had taken photos of a very old Dutch (2-part) door that had an interesting panel layout. We looked at it together and amended the panel sizes a bit for a single piece door and I began planning.
Their house could see three feet of snow in winter and reach the high 90s in summer, so I needed a species of wood that was strong, would remain stable through the seasons and looked great. I chose an African mahogany known as Sepele. Below you can see the two inch thick, rough sawn planks from the mill and what they looked like after I planed the boards and exposed the faces.

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Posted By:Dave Sochar
When I learned Cope and Stick in 1974, it changed my world. So may less parts to make - much less to go wrong in future service.

In this case, you would have made just 32 parts with 44 pcs of stop at the glass. One-tenth the number of parts. I'm trying to be polite, but THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY SOME PARTS!!!!!????

Square sticking is one of the easiest to set up, even if you don't know cope and stick or have the tooling laying around.

Great design on the doors - very attractive.
Posted By:Russell Hudson
you need a shaper table or a good router table (I have a pretty good one) and then you have to have the right cutter bits, then set up the alignment just right (or remove more material to make the face flush after glue up / if I made my own doors, I would do it but I have little call for that in my shop. Making my own doors for cabinetry is just not cost effective considering what you can buy them (good ones) for. Same reason I don't own a lathe and I have only so much room in the shop / with my router table, I have trouble getting a consistent height position for the cutters / I would have to have done that more often in the past to decide to use it here / if I'd had a shaper table & the bits needed, I might have gone that way / would have been easier that way and stronger, I suspect / the router table needs a long bed (before & after the cutter) and a dead true (steel) bed / just wasn't comfortable trying that here
Posted By:Tom Gardiner
You had better tool up! You are going to get a lot of requests for doors after your client's friends see these. What's the point of being in woodworking if not to buy more tools?
Posted By:Russell Hudson
hahaha / tru 'nuff, Tom
Posted By:Alexander Hendrick
Nice door Russell. What is the joinery method used ?
Posted By:Alexander Hendrick
Seriously curious, motise and tenon? Slip tenons? Domino ?
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