01-17-2017, 08:03 PM
Here's a link to Part 13.
Wow, this is turning into quite a tome. The good news is all the parts are finally made. The last parts to be made were the glass stops. They are generally a simple affair, just a simple rectangular shape with a taper on one face and a little rabbet on the other, pretty easy for all the straight glass stops. But curved glass stops are needed for the curved lites at the top of the arched doors. To make those I first roughed some stock to 13/16" thickness, and then held it under the door and traced a pencil line on it where it met the glass pocket. I bandsawed the parts proud of that line and then used my compass plane to tune them to the line. Here's one.
The glass stops are 7/16" where they meet the glass and taper to a little less than 3/8" at the outer face. I put a pencil line at 7/16" on one face and 3/8"- one the other, set my bevel gage at whatever that angle was (around 5°) and then tilited my bandsaw table to match the bevel gage. Then I carefully sawed proud of that line.
More compass plane work on the inside faces, followed by some sanding; then I cut the little rabbet on the top, outside corner on my table saw. I just pivoted the part against the fence, no big deal. Here are the finished parts.
I cut the glass stops needed for the straight runs from scrap left over from the project, that's why you will see so many different lengths in this photo.
So all the parts are now made, and I have them lying around everywhere, like on top of this cart:
And on the floor over here:
I got an email from the glass tempering company today that my pieces are ready to ship and should be here later this week. The curved lites at the top of the French doors are not tempered, which is legal and allows a local glass company to cut those pieces to the shapes needed. So I made templates of those parts today. I taped a piece of heavy paper across the openings at the top of one of the doors, and traced the perimeter of the openings on it, then glued that paper on a piece of Masonite, and cut the shapes, making them about 1/8" smaller. I put the "rain" glass pattern on the parts so the glass guys will know which way to orient the glass when they cut it.
And that's it for fabrication. Now I have to do the final sanding and get set up for finishing.
I need to come up with a good way to hold the doors for spray finishing that allows me to finish an entire door at once. I want to stand them vertically. Anyone have any ideas how to hold them that stills allows complete spray access and w/o leaving any permanent holes, etc. where they will be visible?
John
Wow, this is turning into quite a tome. The good news is all the parts are finally made. The last parts to be made were the glass stops. They are generally a simple affair, just a simple rectangular shape with a taper on one face and a little rabbet on the other, pretty easy for all the straight glass stops. But curved glass stops are needed for the curved lites at the top of the arched doors. To make those I first roughed some stock to 13/16" thickness, and then held it under the door and traced a pencil line on it where it met the glass pocket. I bandsawed the parts proud of that line and then used my compass plane to tune them to the line. Here's one.
The glass stops are 7/16" where they meet the glass and taper to a little less than 3/8" at the outer face. I put a pencil line at 7/16" on one face and 3/8"- one the other, set my bevel gage at whatever that angle was (around 5°) and then tilited my bandsaw table to match the bevel gage. Then I carefully sawed proud of that line.
More compass plane work on the inside faces, followed by some sanding; then I cut the little rabbet on the top, outside corner on my table saw. I just pivoted the part against the fence, no big deal. Here are the finished parts.
I cut the glass stops needed for the straight runs from scrap left over from the project, that's why you will see so many different lengths in this photo.
So all the parts are now made, and I have them lying around everywhere, like on top of this cart:
And on the floor over here:
I got an email from the glass tempering company today that my pieces are ready to ship and should be here later this week. The curved lites at the top of the French doors are not tempered, which is legal and allows a local glass company to cut those pieces to the shapes needed. So I made templates of those parts today. I taped a piece of heavy paper across the openings at the top of one of the doors, and traced the perimeter of the openings on it, then glued that paper on a piece of Masonite, and cut the shapes, making them about 1/8" smaller. I put the "rain" glass pattern on the parts so the glass guys will know which way to orient the glass when they cut it.
And that's it for fabrication. Now I have to do the final sanding and get set up for finishing.
I need to come up with a good way to hold the doors for spray finishing that allows me to finish an entire door at once. I want to stand them vertically. Anyone have any ideas how to hold them that stills allows complete spray access and w/o leaving any permanent holes, etc. where they will be visible?
John