I have been building window sashes for a home built and designed by the artist Tony A. (You might have scene his home in Builders of the Pacific Coast by Lloyd Kahn.) Downstairs the house has 33 sashes and maybe another dozen upstairs. This project pushed me to purchase a new planer, my Powermatic 12 and 1\2 inch planer has been with me for 14 years and cost me $300 back then. The head of this machine jumps sporadically and dents the wood, a problem I have lived with for 6 or so months. Normally I would have it fixed but I think I'm ready for a replacement. I bought the Dewalt 12 and 1\2 portable planer for $400. The planer is great! Three blades on the head and even a locking bar that helps prevent snipe.
Back to the sashes, today I finished all the machining except for the mortises. Wow, lots of pieces to keep track of! Nearly every sash is a different size so everything was numbered and that has worked great. About half of these are openers and the other are fixed. The openers will have mortise and tenon joinery and the fixed just get butt jointed and screwed and glued. I used up most of the wood for the downstairs sashes and have not measured for the upstairs windows yet. We'll need more wood for those. Check out more snaps on Flickr.
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