Carved Cedar Screen Door

[tmerrill]

A couple of pictures of a screen door getting shipped to New England this week. I am finishing the panel, but the frame will be shipped unassembled and then assembled and finished at the receiving end to match the natural cedar siding on the house.

Wood is Western Red Cedar and 3D tree models are from VectorArt3D. Panel and text carving completed in Aspire, everything else done the old fashion way.

Third picture shows a trick I was taught years ago. I started with 2X8 and 2X10 planks, resawed them in half and reversed one half in both directions. Prepped and glued back together and then sized. Opposing grain will provide a lot of long term stability, especially with a thin frame. Down side is the time involved.

Tim

[CNYDWW]

Very nice work. Not often anyone things to laminate the material for exterior use.

Regards
Randy

[joe]

Tim,

Thanks for showing the steps in this process. Your 3D is excellent and I really like your wood too. Cedar has become one of my favorites.

Wish I had a re-saw bandsaw. Great techniques for exterior signs.

Joe Crumley
www.normansignco.com

[dlcw]

Great job Tim. It's nice to see some good old fashioned methods and craftsmanship in this day of high tech machinery and computers. The customer is going to really happy!

[myxpykalix]

Tim,
I just made a screen door but it didn't turn out quite as nice...good job!

[tuck]

Very nice, Tim!

We wanna see yours, Jack!

[Gary Campbell]

Tim...
Nice job!

There is no downside when you take the time to do a job right the first time.

[tuck]

Tim...
Nice job!

There is no downside when you take the time to do a job right the first time.

Reminds me of that old saying, Gary: "There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over!"

[tmerrill]

Thanks to all for the comments.

The door has been assembled, finished and installed and the customer is very happy.

Tim

[butch]

That is very nice Tim
Thks for posting