#221 Making Doors the Hard Way

door frames for the work shop repairing the wall, while the dormice are out at night

cherry plums quince European plum Ciao!

Nice spot for breakfast. I'm continuing with the door frame today. it's in, screwed in You might have noticed that the legs are too short because I made a number of mistakes to joint the three pieces together Yeah I started using the jigsaw, which is just a useless item... you know I'm I'm coming from building into woodworking, basically, and then... Tools like a jigsaw are really not helpful. It's very unprecise. So, I like the hand tools a lot. But it takes a lot more time, but it's easier to get control over things. I have a router too, but I don't have the right router bits to... remove wood in the way I to need do it and, yeah so, the joint that I end up making was not the one that was intended But it will work out, but now the legs are a bit too short, so I'm gonna put a piece of stone and cut it to size, so the door fits in there underneath the two legs to...

Close the loop. I think it will look quite good. I have more experience in cutting stone than doing this But you know that's how it goes with woodworking. When you make a mistake you just call it a design change... because there's a lot of ways of doing it and getting it finished making push blocks

making the door trim making a roller stand

the board is too cupped, it will be cut in two pear trees

grape vines Right, a whole week in the workshop.

It's beautiful wood isn't it? This is all milled. I hope I have enough. I have two more big boards lying there so Should be good. And then the next step is creating tongue and grooves, routing probably, on the outsides. I think I have to build something of a jig because I want to keep the natural lines of the grain so the tongue and groove is not gonna be just straight geometry, but it will it will keep the curves, I'm gonna make it all fit And then it will have chamfers as well, sometimes a bit deeper than other times. In a similar way I've done the door frames, more subtly, but it's kind of this idea you see here. So you follow the natural lines of the wood, which is beautiful. And kind of the style of this this roof and the cabin. So yeah, it's been going well. I've made a lot of mistakes, learned a lot about... the material and how to use the machines and how to use the chisel work.

Sometimes you have to be a bit more rough and sometimes you have to be a bit more careful. That's what it comes down to. So um yeah great work. Nice that it rained a bit as well because it's been incredibly dry the past weeks Grass is getting very yellow, especially on the south side. it's very dry, a lot of fires, uh, but not here, which is good So yeah, next week we'll be continuing on the roof as well. I've got some help. I'm gonna take the battens off, replace the beams Do some wall work, put in ducting for electricity and lamps for outside and inside. So a lot of that can go into the top of the wall. So that's uh that's next week