Well, it looks like a door now, doesn’t it?
So what do we have here? We have the four main planks all glued together and the three cross pieces have been made. Doing the mortises and the tenons was all quite time consuming – lots of measuring, precise cutting, rounding the ends of the tenons with a file etc. What you see here are the pieces fitted together, but they haven’t been glued yet. And the perimeter of the door needs to have a 2cms groove cut around it so that it will fit flush in the door frame (my English lets me down here – don’t know the correct carpentry term for it).
Next jobs: make the groove, glue the door together, create the board that will fill in the lower hole in the door out of three pieces of thinner oak, create all the decorative mouldings, make the bit at the bottom that keeps the rain away from the inside of the house. Still plenty more to do then. And let me remind you that making doors doesn’t even count as cabinet-making; it is simple joinery. Cabinet-makers sniff at making doors.
