External Oak door?

[punkrockdad]

Has anybody ever made one of these style doors for external north facing?

http://www.genuinestainedglass.com/Vict ... _glass.jpg

I'm thinking of making one from 2x4 white American oak (available from a stockist close by) but could be persuaded to use something else.

I'm also thinking of using floating tenons and the panel technique that Norm used on his Entry Door episode.

I could do with a little advice on creating the moldings and raised panel in the bottom section. I've spotted these on wealdons that could possibly do the job:
http://www.wealdentool.com/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Two_Cutter_Set_101.html

They go to make up these possible profiles:

Any comments gratefully received

 

[RogerS]

I think that you need to take a long hard look at the actual dimensions of the profile, size of the radii etc and then look at the size of those cutters. I could be wrong but I think the cutters are too small. To be honest, given the size of the moulding I think you may struggle to do this with available router cutters.

 

[punkrockdad]

I think you maybe right there. I've just drawn the door upto scale and its 40mm across the profile of the largest round and the maximum radius is 9.5mm on the cutter - mmm needs to be twice as big?

http://www.wealdentool.com/acatalog/Online_Catalogue_Single_Cutters_100.html

 

[RogerS]

This thread might give you some ideas

 

[JanneKi]

Be extra careful in the timber selection so that you really get white oak, red oak is not that tolerant for outdoors usage.

http://www.woodweb.com/knowledge_base/D ... m_Red.html