Garage doors

[billybuntus]

With reference to the recent 'lottery win' thread. Thats pretty much what I would build if I had 56m in the bank.

Enough room for all my hobbies and a car.

ps, what on earth do you do for a living and what does that sort of build cost?

ha, ha, i'm a student!

rich parents? Do they fancy adopting another child?

 

[jhwbigley]

Didn't get on the job till bout 10, got the parts for one frame faced and edged, then thicknessed

alot of shavings form three bits of wood... :shock:

After cutting to length, marked out my joints.. had to use my craptastic mortice gauge as my best ones in college...

Then i used my morticer to cut the bottom end of the bridle joint, leaving a bit to pare of to the knife line.

Thats all i got chance to do today..

JHB

 

[jhwbigley]

With reference to the recent 'lottery win' thread. Thats pretty much what I would build if I had 56m in the bank.

Enough room for all my hobbies and a car.

ps, what on earth do you do for a living and what does that sort of build cost?

ha, ha, i'm a student!

rich parents? Do they fancy adopting another child?

:lol:

 

[wizer]

get yerself a chip collector!

 

[jhwbigley]

get yerself a chip collector!

sounds a good idea :lol:

Got the joints finished of with a handsaw and pared back to the kinfe and gauge lines with chisels.

Its all glued up now, and will be a few weeks till im back..

JHB

 

[jhwbigley]

get yerself a chip collector!

I've got one of these now, second hand

http://www.dm-tools.co.uk/product.php/sn/METSPA1101

now just to make some extraction hoods


JHB

 

[wizer]

Don't muck about do yah?? :lol:

 

[jhwbigley]

Don't muck about do yah?? :lol:

:lol:

! bought a wood lathe too

JHB

 

[jhwbigley]

Well here we go, got frame 1 outside and greened up ready to fit..

Joints don’t look to bad..

Bought a dust extractor, don’t have time to make any extraction hoods at this present moment..

Planed up the timber for the next frame, and broke the handle on my planner fence

Back to cutting some joints, first with a tenon saw with rip teeth, finishing off with a panel saw where it wouldn't reach..

Then a bit of paring with some chisels..

Got it all clamped up...

And it FITS! :shock:

JHB

 

[wizer]

nice work

 

[rocksteadyeddy]

There is no "I think that's bigger than my house"........ That "IS" bigger than my house! :lol:

Very nice indeed! when you hoping to get the toys moved in?

 

[jhwbigley]

There is no "I think that's bigger than my house"........ That "IS" bigger than my house! :lol:

Very nice indeed! when you hoping to get the toys moved in?

:lol:

Well It's 'bout ready for plastering (the lack of door will help it dry out :lol: ) i'm hoping by late summer to be moved, or moving in.

Being in full time education up north kinda hinders progress..

JHB

 

[jhwbigley]

nice work

Thanks Tom.

Like my new wood lathe ?

Not letting my dad out on his own again..

JHB

 

[wizer]

Is that a copy lathe? Looks nice.

 

[jhwbigley]

Yeah, it just drops in where the normal tool rest goes , but the normal tool rest is missing, might make one.

nice and solid compared to my sip, cant wait to get it cleaned up and give it a run in the summer.

 

[jhwbigley]

plasterers coming to skim the 'shop in 2-3 weeks

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JHB

 

[jhwbigley]

Well I had a bit of time today, so I pulled my finger out on got on with my doors!....
There’s the first pair, a lot more work yet, but just wanted to make sure they fitted!....

Here is one half of the second pair of doors in the metal shop...

Also got all the wood cut to rough lengths for the cladding...

Can’t find my radio now.....

JHB

 

[jhwbigley]

Got a bit more done.
Here one of the doors showing completed metalwork, ready for paint...

Got some of hinges...

Got nearly all my wood faced and edged, till my planer played up again.....

That’s it for now!

JHB

 

[jhwbigley]

Well I thought I’d report progress.
Here is one of the doors primed and celotex board fitted.

Some of the cladding all thicknessed

Some with the rebate added

Now with the chamfer added

Routing the chamfers

Who needs bench dogs!

First lot greened up

Got some undercoat on my frames

Looking good with some plaster on

Like my new extractor bags?

 

[jhwbigley]

Sorry for not updating my progress, but time has been somewhat limited by being in two places at once...
I do have a few more wip photos of construction but i’ll not bore you.
Here is the view of the back of the workshop, the border has been ripped out and filled with top soil so it can be grassed right up to the back wall.

Started on second fix too

So here we go, first pair of doors clad and undercoated

The frames that they will be hung onto have already been top coated and masticed in, so i just need to top coat the doors and I’m ready to fit them...

Hopefully get back on them in a month at the latest, and also move some(new) machines in



JH