Doors and epic weather

Doors, doors, doors...three doors now glued up. The Buxbaum door is ready to be sanded and finished, the redwood panels were beautiful straight grained old growth redwood, a full eleven inches wide. I believe a lot of this Wharf wood was milled from beams that were sixteen inches by sixteen inches. An inch was cut off all the way around so lots of the boards ended up fourteen inches wide. This is why the Hawkin's Bar doors had seven inch wide stiles. The bottom rails of the Buxbaum door was just under thirteen inches wide.

Buxbaum Door

Some evidence of the Wharf wood is still exposed on the stiles of Daisy's doors. These French doors were built so that the old glass from the doors being replaced could be reused. Hopefull I will be able to get the glass out without breaking it. I am hoping the steamer will relieve the adhesion between wood and glass. Today I glued up both doors, I love how the doors come together with the use of mortise and tenons. Adding the element of miters makes it a bit trickier but with the use of a mitered block with forty five degree angles cut on either side makes it easy to cut and pare the miters.

Daisy's Door Joinery

It has been two weeks since my back was totally tweaked and now it is feeling much better. I have been doing yoga in the mornings and then try to get out to the scotch broom with a machete just to get my muscles warmed up, then I get to work in the shop. It is not one hundred percent but it is getting there.

Enjoying a warm January evening.

The weather these days has been heavenly, high temps in the low seventies with no wind. Low temps in the low forties. The sun is working its way toward the tops of the Cypress trees and soon the barn won't be in the shadows from 11:00 to 3:00. We have pruned all the fruit trees and olive trees during this epic spell of perfect weather.

In the shadow of the Cypress trees.

One more week of work for a client, than it is back to our kitchen, it has been on the back burner since August. My goal is to get the carcasses installed and the counter tops ready for zinc within the first two weeks of February. Then I have a drawer project waiting for me so hopefully I can make ours at the same time.