How to Make a Raised Panel Door with Tom McLaughlin
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
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⚙️ SHOW NOTES - EPISODE #108: Tom will be the first to confess it took him several years to replace the curtains on his shop bathroom vanity with real raised panel doors, even though making them was easy and enjoyable in the end. In this episode he shows you a simple and fun approach to making a traditional haunched mortise and tenon door. Maybe you have some cabinets that need doors too? Check it out so you can do something about that! (Closed captioned)
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Excellent!
Fantastic show Tom and of course the camera lady
Thanks Mike, you’re right, the camera lady is the secret weapon! 😎👍
Excellent show as usual. Lots of information and explained in a friendly enjoyable manner. Well done to you both. Stay safe. From Ireland.
Thanks Pat, it’s great to know I have a friend in you watching from the Emerald Isle!! 👍😎
Watching this one tonight to celebrate and close out Dan’s birthday!
Thanks Madison! I’m honored to think you guys consider watching an episode of SNL worthy of being part of a celebration like that 😎, and happy birthday Dan!… belatedly of course, I have some catching up to do. Always great to hear from you, thanks for watching!
Most enjoyable, learned a lot. Look forward to the next episode. From the land downunder.
Awesome, thanks Alex, so glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching from the great down under 😎👍
Great stuff, as always. Thanks for the video, guys!
Thanks Jerry!! 👍
Hi Tom
Thank you very much for this excellent video on how to build solid doors using true mortise and tenon which no one does anymore at least on the commercial side. everyone is happy building doors using 7/16 of an inch or profile part to be the joint between stile and rail. Based on my experience, such joint will last 5 to 6 years or less depending on how the doors are handled.
I have always said that the sign of true craftsman is one who makes it easy when watching them doing their craft and you are truly a true craftsman.
I build my doors the same way you do with some differences:
1- I use CNC to make my mortise and tenon joint mostly because I was told that mortiser does not do good job in drilling in hardwood. However, after watching your video, i am very much interested in trying the mortiser that you have if you don't mind sharing the make and model of your mortiser or if you can advice on a good one. This will save me substantial time on small jobs.
2- Do you really need pegs in the door? I don't use them because today's glue is pretty strong and many customers don't like them if they show on front face of the door.
3- If the doors have profile then things get more complicated as you need to cut the stile and rail at 45 degree and remove the profile where it meets the rail. I have a custom made router bit designed to do that but recently kreg came up with similar bit, called notch bit, as part of their beading system if you want to check it out.
4- I tried using Domino instead of true mortise and tenon and the way I did it is that you build door using cope and stick bit and then u cut part of the tenon and mortise there and into the stile where Domino is going to go. The problem is with the stile and rail being only 2 7/16'', you can only use one Domino so to compensate you make the Domino really long going into stile and rail. You save time but the joint is not as strong as your true mortise and tenon wide joint because Domino is only 3/4'' wide.
Last, I very much would like to join your live shows and hence if you let me know about dates and times I would greatly appreciate that. Hopefully it is late afternoon or evening.
Thank you again for being great craftsman and look forward to hearing from you
A.J
Thanks AJ, great to hear from you and I’m glad you enjoyed the video!
The mortiser I have is made by Jet, the floor model. But there are quite a few bench top models out there that you can find for around $400. It’s important to buy good chisels as well, like most things you get what you pay for. The most inexpensive ones are quite often poorly made, although they will do the job but not as well.
I know what you mean about it a true mortise and tenon, I love the traditional strength and style of them. And I usually mention in the video, adding the pegs is overkill, and really added more for the decorative traditional look since as you described, modern glues are excellent especially if the joint is well fit.
And I agree, the Domino is a great modern method for quickly making a better than average floating tenon joint, although with its limitations as you described, but still quite strong.
Our livestreams are every Thursday evening at 8 PM (EST). The best way to find the link, and more information about everything we are doing and offer, is by going to our website epicwoodworking.com. By joining our mailing list you will get informed each week about the upcoming livestream and whatever other special things we have going on.
Thanks again for watching, hope to connect again sometime!
Tom
By the way, there is a great electric outlet device out there that you plug you machine into one outlet and the vac into another. When you turn the tool on the vac also goes on, but stays on for a few seconds longer than the tool. No remote needed.
The device plugs into an outlet, of course.
I know Lee Valley Tools has them for sure.
Yes, thanks Jim. I actually have that auto mechanism built in with my Festool vacuum, which I like a lot. Thanks for watching! 😎
Hi Tom, great session on raised panel doors. You can make use of the door, show how to make up the cabinet for the door and use it in the shop for small tool storage. See you next week on SNL.
Nice idea Steve, I will probably do something like that, thanks! Sorry for the the slow reply, I’ve been swamped with working on our first “Epic Weekend” event that just concluded. 😎
Great show as always. I learned some good tips for paneled doors. Suggestion, a shop night live that shows how to put a hinge on the coopered or bow front door when used with a box or cabinet.
You read my mind Kerry. That will surely be a topic in the near future since I have both a hanging cabinet and jewelry box in the project development phase…each with curved lids. Thanks for the suggestion, and for watching! 👍😎
@@EpicWoodworking That’s excellent. I’m interested in giving that curved lid a try myself.
I want to make a 33" x 33" gate of 2" x 3" pine for my daughter's new home deck. I don't have the tools to do a mortise and tenon joint. But I was thinking of having 1/2" or 3/4" tenons top and bottom and (open?) tenons on the ends of the stiles. Would that, glued and screwed, be strong enough for a gate? No children but dogs. Should I use 1/2" or 3/4" tenons for max. strength?
That sounds plenty strong to me Jim! The general rule for strength is 1/3rds…the tenon being roughly 1/3 the stock thickness. Although I think you will find the 1/2” to be quite adequate.
Hope that helps! 👍
Bien
How would you cut diamond point raised panel ?
Sorry Martin, I’m not sure I understand exactly what you mean by diamond point raised panel…🤔
You look like Bill Clinton with that haircut.
Thanks, all the grandmas think so! 😎