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Diminished stile door in cherry (glazing & polishing)

What a moment that must have been, finding the door was 50mm short. Cherry darkens considerably with age, and so I'm sure the join you can see now will be invisible in due course.

I wonder what forces led the glass to be curved.That's not a problem I've come across. I do know that glass is more flexible than people think, and it's not impossible that it would have bent back to flat with a little pressure. However, given that it was irreplaceable, it was wise not to try.

The end result is great. I hope you are pleased. It's easy to feel negative about projects where there has been a little struggle. I haven't quite forgiven my recent bookcase for the problems it caused me. Getting over such issues is a big part of a woodworker's lot, and this is a great result. More importantly, perhaps, is that it was a great process.
 
Mike G":2hzuvfs9 said:
The end result is great. I hope you are pleased. It's easy to feel negative about projects where there has been a little struggle. I haven't quite forgiven my recent bookcase for the problems it caused me. Getting over such issues is a big part of a woodworker's lot, and this is a great result. More importantly, perhaps, is that it was a great process.
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Thanks Mike, and also Andy, it was the process rather than the end result that was important, although I was please with how it turned out and now the kitchen is considerably warmer as the air doesn't circulate through the hall as it did.
I'd like to be able to get projects done a bit faster, this one took a year, but I don't want to turn a hobby into a job, as I have one of those already. With the benefit of hindsight, wrestling with a workmate is really something I should have given up on a long time ago and getting a good quality bench should be a priority, its just building the outbuilding to accomodate it that will take a while :D

Thanks, David
 
Lovely job mate and if you hadn't mentioned the length issue I would have seen it, but instantly dismissed it as just a variance in board colour from a joined board.

Looks great and as mentioned you should be rightly proud to have completed a very impressive job on a workmate. Mine is currently supporting the SCMS for building my shed doors, which will be NOTHING like yours...
 
Well done. I bet you said "rats" or something when you realised the tape measure error. I've yet to do a project without making a mistake like that. Only last night my son popped out to my workshop to say goodnight and whilst showing him the piece I'd just dimensioned for a drawer rail, I realised that it was completely the wrong size! Fortunately I could consign that one back to the wood store and make a new one.

Your repair looks fine to me and the door looks superb.

I live in an old house with lots of of original doors and there are tons of mistakes if you look closely. Things like one out of four raised panels being back to front!
 
NickM":2s17721e said:
I live in an old house with lots of of original doors and there are tons of mistakes if you look closely. Things like one out of four raised panels being back to front!
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That would really trigger me, and I like old stuff, especially houses and their joinery/ironwork details.

David
 
It looks grand! That piece of glass is a wonderful thing and the door in which it now sits complements it well! A proper, traditional bit of hand-craftsmanship that.

Learning in woodworking is all about mistakes! I once did a job where there were eight sliding sash windows of identical size, made the boxes and started measuring up for the sashes themselves, since they were all the same size I only measured one box. I spent a few days making these sashes, morticing, tenoning, moulding, decorative horn cutting, the lot of it, and when I went to fit them to the boxes, I realised I had made a grievous error...

I FORGOT TO ALLOW FOR THE MEETING RAIL OVERLAP! :eusa-doh:

So I now had sixteen sashes that didn't fit at all as both sashes were short by half a meeting rail, and a lot of cursing ensued.

What I learned from that one, always double, triple, and quadruple check every measurement.
 
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