Making the teahouse doors
The day was spent building the the two entrance doors out of oak. The first job was to plane the green oak oak to size - or should I say, air-dried oak as all the 4" by 2" green oak was by now dry after standing in the garden for three months.
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Sawing the tenons of the cross members
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Tenons finished!
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Drilling the mortices, followed by chiselling
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The two doors fitted together for the first time
- only took a morning to make
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The routered slot for the base panel made from oak-faced ply
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Gluing the doors
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Glued and cramped over night
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Planing the shoji frames - I'll need quite a few.
I've decided to make them 8mm thick
Today I'll concentrate on making the door shoji frames.
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Cutting to fit the opening - all I need now is hinges
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Routering the rebate to fit the toughened glass
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Routing out the shoji frames in the doors
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Gluing the Shoji frames
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Looking nice resting in situ
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The door hinged and the draft strip nailed to the frame
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The brass hinges
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After a lot of planing and hacking, both doors are now hanging
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Showing the wood draft excluder fillets
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The door open fully back to touch the front walls
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Lock and handles fitted