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Making Doors the Tod Evans Way!

`cause some folks expressed an interest in another thread i`ve undertaken the chore of documenting how i build doors.

i do both interior and exterior doors the same way construction wise only exterior doors get weatherstriping, permanent thresholds and instead of pinned panels i use polyurethane airline to surround the panels to allow for expansion but still seal out weather.

first off i`ve built doors for various clients per their specs using solid wood, usually 10/4.....every one of these doors has warped with seasonal movement.....for those of you who are "purests" these doors where done correctly, through wedged tennons, mouldings cut into the rails-n-styles and mitered, ect......they still moved enough with seasonal humidity changes to cause sealing problems....

now when i`m commissioned to build "solid" doors i take another approach, one i`ve gleaned from the industry. most of the higher quality "builder" doors that are stocked locally are of a wheatboard core that`s been banded and veneered. higher quality "custom" doors are generally made of fingerjointed fir and banded and veneered with a slightly thicker skin. the "builder" doors are assembled using 6" screws in lieu of dowells, whereas the custom units depending on manufacturer will use stubb tennons and dowells or in the rare instance loose tennons. i`ve not seen custom doors available that use through wedged tennons........

the method i use now is i glue together a core lamination of the same species as the face. these cores are glued in blocks 3-1/2" x 10" x length of the rail + 2-4" for error. after the glue sets i`ll resaw 1-1/2" x 10" blanks from the block, surface them and laminate a 5/16-3/8 face veneer to the blank. the next step is to dado the rails for allthread, the reason for dados is that it`s a real bugger to drill accurate holes through the rails...i`ll stop here `cause that`s how far i am on the doors i`m building....tod

here`s a couple more pics that`ll help explain what i`m doing.. the first three show a cutaway of the dado and allthread only these doors will have 10" rails with two pieces of allthread in each rail. mac the fourth pic shows my big bandsaw without the feeder mounted, that`s a 1-1/4" 3 tooth blade.....yes i bag the faces

here`s an update on the doors.....in-between radiused moulding and 3-days off last week i still managed to get some work done on the doors. these are dry assembled with allthread awaiting panels. there will be back to back panels in both the upper and lower sections and the top of the doors will curve to follow the radius of the top rail.....