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Creating a Period Reproduction Art-and-Crafts Door A less than sublime entryway gets an elegant period treatment. From "Restoration Realities" episode DRTR-205

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Creating the Door Design

• Begin by setting the door slab on sawhorses and laying out pattern as per drawing for the cuts on door slab (figures A and B).

  Figure A

  Figure B

  
  

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• Use blue painter's tape to tape off the center area for the window to prevent splintering.

• Using the circular saw, plunge cut the center area to be removed for the window, and carefully remove the cut-out section (figures C and D).

  Figure C

  Figure D

  
  

• Rip down 4-quarter oak stock to the door thickness for the window frame.

• Cut a rabbet one side of the frame material 1/4" wide by 1" deep. This will form the outside of the window frame (figures E and F).

  Figure E

  Figure F

  
  

• Rabbet-cut an additional piece 1/4" wide by 1" deep on two sides to form center muntin bars (figure G).

• Begin assembly of the window frame measuring the inside of the window opening and mitering the single side rabbeted pieces.

• Glue and nail the pieces into place (figure H).

  Figure G

  Figure H

  
  

• Center the muntin pieces inside the frame and mortise the muntins into the outside frame (figure I).

• Glue and nail into place (figure J).

Figure I

Figure J

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