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Actually I've just realised that I'm overthinking things @Dammit you could quite easily make this with halving joints which is a much more approachable method of construction. This would also be doable without joinery grade stock.
Thanks for this, and the longer post before it.
My rough plan is to rent some time and space in a local workshop, there's a Maker Space being put together locally that might work out, which I'd likely contribute some machines toward.
I'll have a crack at a scale version of the doors first - I did a lot of model making when I was an Architecture student that may help here. I have a fair pile of tools from framing out my flat, building the bathrooms, cutting the parquet for the hall etc, but nothing like a thicknesser and so forth, and frankly very little experience of making proper joints apart from some workbenches I made years ago.
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and frankly very little experience of making proper joints apart from some workbenches I made years ago.
As was pointed out - quality and reliable door building, like what you want to attempt, lives and dies on the quality of the joinery. Shit joinery. Shit doors.
Regardless of how you feel about how people have opined about your plans, I think it’s reasonable to say it’s be wise to become competent with the requisite techniques before attempting such a tricky project.
I get it, you see the challenge and you are competent in the other aspects of your life so it seems reasonable to give it a go. But I’d liken it to the guy that wants to climb Everest or El Capitan without any mountaineering or climbing experience. You could in theory do either with almost no experience and just prepare extremely thoroughly for the task and still succeed, but the vast majority of experienced participants would recommend you start with smaller steps.
Also, it’d be shit to get to the end and realise you didn’t do the first bits well enough for the doors to be any good. Or you might relish the opportunity to get it right at all costs, no matter how many errors are made along the way, and how much needs to be redone.
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Actually I've just realised that I'm overthinking things @Dammit you could quite easily make this with halving joints which is a much more approachable method of construction. This would also be doable without joinery grade stock.