The Woodshop Shed

Redemption

Furnished content.
(from WoodNet.net)


You may remember my slice of humble pie posting a few weeks ago, where, because of an error I made creating the drawing, and not making a story stick,I built some doors that were too narrow for the opening. Well, after digesting that for a few days I proposed a "fix", or to build new doors. The fix was to add a piece of stock between the doors, attached to one door. The drawing looked like this, except the new piece would have grooves in it just like the door panels.




I didn't hear anything from the customer for over a week, so I contacted her to get her reaction. She said she might be OK with it, but said she wanted to use a piece of rosewood for contrast. OK, if you can find a piece of rosewood veneer, I'll use that. Another week passed so I contacted her again. This time she said she just didn't like the whole idea and would like to have new doors. OK, I'll do that.

But I'm pig headed at times, so I decided to build the center pieces and take the reworked doors to her and tell her to live with them for a couple of weeks. If she still hated them, I'd make new ones. Today was the day, and here's what they look like.



The center panels areattached to the right doors. There is a 3/8" groove on both edges of the panel to match the 3/8" horizontal gap between the two sets of doors.



There is an astragal let into a rabbett onthe back of the left door that fits into a rabbett in the right door to cover the gap between the doors.






She didn't say much when I was there, but later I got a text apologizing for not paying me (I didn't expect her to today.) and that the doors were growing on her. I take that as a good sign.

As a side note, I used:[font="Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]Blum Compact Clip Soft-Close 5/8" Overlay, 2-Piece Screw-On[/font]hinges from WoodWorker's Hardware. They are the only compact faceframe soft close hinges I've found with the clip-onfeature and 3-way adjustability. The clip-on feature made installation so much easier, especially when I had to take them down and then reinstall them. Very nice hinges and features.

John

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