Invent Design Make

Step 11 – Constructing the Doors Part 1 – Making the Rails and Stiles

So to get the doors to fit nice and tightly inside the frame, we can use a measuring stick to find the lengths needed (again I think this is preferable to a measuring tape).  The same applies here, in that we want to suss everything out before we go gluing anything.  Below is a cross sectional idea of what the door stiles will be like.  To the right is the inside glass retainer, on the left the outside one.

Same deal, here, clamping up the laminate sections before, forming up the rectangle.

Unlike the fixed frame, I chose to add lap joints to the ‘outside glass retainers’, and this added complexity. So I decided to add them on after the basic shape was made.  So here is one of the laminated finger joint corners.

I made them so that the ‘horns’ (I think that is the right term?) stuck out a touch.  This way they can be planed absolutely flush later (in other words, if they were not long enough it would be a big problem, but a shade over is fine)

The basic rectangle of one door all glued up and ready to have the outside glass retainers added – these will add a lot of strength.