Sam Murdoch
11-14-2012, 4:18 PM
Here are a pair of doors that I designed and built that are unusual and, I think, pretty nice. The side in the photos is the colder entry way side. Hard to photograph because of the lighting and the size of the room but I think you get the idea. They have been in use for about 3 years now.
The iron work is by a very talented local guy. He worked with me to detail the iron work, sized the pintels, designed the harpoon handles and was an immense help with the install.
They are 2 sided 3/4" solid Jatoba with a 3/8 MDF core wrapped with 3/16" x 3" iron bands. The glass is 3/8" tempered glass and it is the thickness of the glass that determined the thickness of the MDF core. The Jatoba face boards are glued up as 4 separate panels and each panel is kept just an 1/8" shy of the 7/8" wide exterior wood frame on the sides to allow for some movement within the frame whereas the MDF core is let into the wood frame. The iron bands completely wrap the doors and form the hinges that rests on the pintels. We overbored the through bolt holes in the solid wood only. Through the iron bands and the MDF core the bolts are tight and serve to sandwich the assembly. There are no other fastenings holding the pieces together.
These doors weigh about 350 lbs. The operating door is held closed to the fixed panel with a 5/8" earth magnet set into the back of the astragal at each band so that the magnet catches the band of the fixed panel. The fixed panel on the left is held top and bottom on the interior side with 2 custom forged deadbolts.
Originally my client wanted the glass to be unobstructed but I persuaded him with drawings that the center stiles were essential to keep the structure of the door and to hold the glass in place. The need for an astragal kind of made that a moot point in any event. On this face the glass is kept in place with a metal hoop, but on the other face the Jatoba panel was recessed to receive the glass.
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The iron work is by a very talented local guy. He worked with me to detail the iron work, sized the pintels, designed the harpoon handles and was an immense help with the install.
They are 2 sided 3/4" solid Jatoba with a 3/8 MDF core wrapped with 3/16" x 3" iron bands. The glass is 3/8" tempered glass and it is the thickness of the glass that determined the thickness of the MDF core. The Jatoba face boards are glued up as 4 separate panels and each panel is kept just an 1/8" shy of the 7/8" wide exterior wood frame on the sides to allow for some movement within the frame whereas the MDF core is let into the wood frame. The iron bands completely wrap the doors and form the hinges that rests on the pintels. We overbored the through bolt holes in the solid wood only. Through the iron bands and the MDF core the bolts are tight and serve to sandwich the assembly. There are no other fastenings holding the pieces together.
These doors weigh about 350 lbs. The operating door is held closed to the fixed panel with a 5/8" earth magnet set into the back of the astragal at each band so that the magnet catches the band of the fixed panel. The fixed panel on the left is held top and bottom on the interior side with 2 custom forged deadbolts.
Originally my client wanted the glass to be unobstructed but I persuaded him with drawings that the center stiles were essential to keep the structure of the door and to hold the glass in place. The need for an astragal kind of made that a moot point in any event. On this face the glass is kept in place with a metal hoop, but on the other face the Jatoba panel was recessed to receive the glass.
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