Thread: WIP - Stable Door

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Its looking good BS

Put some more hours in on this project, most of them on the drill press!

Photo 1 shows one of the mortises drilled out, talk about monotonous!

Photo 2 one half, the top half, of the mortises done and the rails with the tenons pre-cut

Photo 3 Mortises cleaned out by hand with the chisel and rebates cut for the T&G panel, captured cut in the stiles

Photo 4 All the components for the top half ready for dry fitting, T&G panel will not be glued in to the rails and stiles, but will uses small silicone beads

Photo 5 Top half of door dry-fitted, ready for glue up

By this stage it got a bit too warm in the shed, so decided to call it a day.

To be continued....................

Looking really good.

Nice work BS.

Looks like your doing a great job BS Well done. Thanks for sharing.

Finished this project last week and just realised I hadn't put the pictures up.

Door is now ready for hanging, all I need now is a potting shed to hang it on.

Have been working on that too.

The dado set certainly got a workout on this stable door project, right down to cutting the overlapping rebates.

Even SWMBO reckons it was money well spent

Nicely done BS. Those M&Ts would have given you a work out.

Top job. Now for the shed.

Cheers
Pops

I love it - build the door before the shed. I wish I could get away with this.
Nice work BS.

Originally Posted by BobL

I love it - build the door before the shed. I wish I could get away with this.
Nice work BS.

Bob, believe it or not but there was method to my madness

With all the T&G joints in the panels and the rebates in the stiles I was afraid that I might finish up with wrong size door if I had to make it fit a specific door opening size.

So, I made the door first, I have now made the timber frame with the correct door opening for the door and jamb. I did the same with the windows, made the window frames first, then made the timber frames for the shed with openings to suit.

The timber frames are up, will start on the roof and the weatherboards after we come back from Adelaide after Christmas.

Originally Posted by Big Shed

Bob, believe it or not but there was method to my madness

With all the T&G joints in the panels and the rebates in the stiles I was afraid that I might finish up with wrong size door if I had to make it fit a specific door opening size.

So, I made the door first, I have now made the timber frame with the correct door opening for the door and jamb. I did the same with the windows, made the window frames first, then made the timber frames for the shed with openings to suit.

The timber frames are up, will start on the roof and the weatherboards after we come back from Adelaide after Christmas.

All this sounds very familiar - chicken I know but that's why I never make anything to exact size for anyone. If it's a gap something has to fit into I tell them it will fit into the gap but it won't necessarily fill the gap exactly. If they want it to fill exactly I tell them I'm an amateur and you need a professional.

Nice end result BS
I must get a dado set

Originally Posted by underused

Nice end result BS
I must get a dado set

You won't regret it either!

Nearly all the work on this door was done with the dado, tenons, T&G, grooves in stiles and rails, overlapping rebates on top and bottom doors, tongues on ends of panels.

Now I know that all of that can be done with a router bit on the router table, but the dado in the tablesaw makes it an order of magnitude easier and quicker (and quieter!)

Nice work MR big.