[Woodcarver] Carving Doors

[Joe Dillett]

Hi Bing,

Yes I have built doors. There is a white oak exterior 6" thick door with a 
floating panel can maybe view on my site (link below). Click on the 
Architecture link at the bottom of my home page and its the third photo down 
on the Architecture page. click to enlarge it.

To create the panel I took 1 X 6 plain sawn white oak and glued them in the 
1-inch direction so I would have the lower expansion of quarter sawn lunber 
and the finer quarter sawn grain to carve in. Before I glued the panel up I 
laid the boards out and numbered them. Than I drew out the scene and marked 
the depths so I could bandsaw each board before gluing. When I glued up the 
panel the carving was already roughed out with the bandsaw so all I needed 
to do was the finishing work.

The door weighed about 300 lbs so I needed the frame built with laminated 2 
X 6's and used 3 Jaco ball bearing hinges lagged into the frame to support 
the weight.

Email me off list if you have any more questions about about construction.

Joe Dillett
The Carving Shop
645 E. LaSalle St. Suite 3
Somonauk, IL. 60552
(815) 498-9290 phone
(815) 498-9249 fax
http://www.thecarvingshop.com
jdillett at thecarvingshop.com
http://www.carvingmagazine.com Carving Magazine web site and Readers Forum
http://www.carvingmagazine.com/chat/chat.shtml Live Chat for Carving 
Magazine.
http://community.webshots.com/user/joe_dillett
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary & Marie Crosby" <gcrosby at sympatico.ca>
To: "[Woodcarver]" <woodcarver at six.pairlist.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 12:15 PM
Subject: [Woodcarver] Carving Doors


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Hi all, has anyone out there built and carved a panel door before? I am
looking for a book or information on their construction and design. I have a
master plan, but I would like to confirm it before I starting. Thanks for
your help

Bing

http://darkwood-woodcarving.com

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[mailto:woodcarver-bounces at six.pairlist.net]On Behalf Of Merrilee
Johnson
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 10:37 AM
To: woodcarver at six.pairlist.net
Subject: RE: [Woodcarver] Mike's chef


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What a great smile on your chef, Mike!  Your brother-in-law is a lucky
fellow!
Merrilee



>Just finished carving a chef for my Brother in Law.  See it in my current

>carvings on picture trail.

>

>www.picturetrail.com/rnmicro

>

>Mike

>


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