mailee
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Along with another commission I started work on some internal French doors in softwood this week. Having made a good start I soon found it was one of those jobs! :roll: You know the ones where you wish you had never started.
Anyway putting on a brave face I got stuck in making the doors. The frame was easy and I had this ready in a couple of hours but the doors gave me a bit of head scratching. After making the stiles and rails it was time to make the glazing bars as it would be a ten panel glass door. I did think of just mitring each one into place but decided against this as the door may move over time and open the joints. So it was a case of having to cope each one and tennon them into place.....Gulp! After making the glazing bars on the router table I made a jig up out of some scrap mdf.
I made a couple of them as I expected them to wear with the amount I had to cut. It took me most of this afternoon to cut them all but finally got them done. it wasn't too bad once I got into the swing of it.
With a little bit of fettling the joints were not too bad considering the amount of hand work.
By the end of the day I had one of the doors in a dry fit.
There will be two side lights each side of the doors but these only have the horizontal glazing bars...luckily. :lol: I think I shall invest in some tooling for these in the future.![Oops! :oops: :oops:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
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I made a couple of them as I expected them to wear with the amount I had to cut. It took me most of this afternoon to cut them all but finally got them done. it wasn't too bad once I got into the swing of it.
![](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/a82/a82a89593bffc75e85816c005629dfde.jpg)
With a little bit of fettling the joints were not too bad considering the amount of hand work.
![](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/ede/edea253cb5943160e2c55187851161ba.jpg)
By the end of the day I had one of the doors in a dry fit.
![](https://proxy.imagearchive.com/124/124f2c6e05a8350caeddca760b31a442.jpg)
There will be two side lights each side of the doors but these only have the horizontal glazing bars...luckily. :lol: I think I shall invest in some tooling for these in the future.