Raised panel or glued layers?
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Yesterday I walked past an entrance door that I liked a lot.
I wonder if the lower panel is glued from 4 layers or if it’s two raised panels or even one panel raised three times.
I suppose it’s 4 layers. I should have gone closer to have a look at the grain.If it’s raised, it couldn’t be easily done with a smoothing plane.
What do you think?
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You must be logged in to view attached files.I really can’t tell by he picture but unless this is a custom made door it’s probably layered. However, you could do that with a hand plane but it would take some creative placement of guides and some shop built tooling… There is a challange for you! I think I might use that on a small box and see what happens…
21 February 2014 at 3:34 pm #28164Traditional way to make fielded or raised panels would be done out of solid timber.
[quote quote=28157]I really can’t tell by he picture but unless this is a custom made door it’s probably layered. However, you could do that with a hand plane but it would take some creative placement of guides and some shop built tooling… There is a challange for you! I think I might use that on a small box and see what happens…[/quote]
Shouldn’t be that hard… A no. 10 or 78 plane, or better yet, a wooden sash rebate plane (for its tall fence and skewed iron) is probably all it takes.
Sam8 February 2015 at 12:18 pm #124478Judging by what can be seen of the grain in the picture, I think it’s solid. Assuming by the style of the door and the building that it’s possibly 1930s (?), logic also suggests the glues of the time would not have been trusted to keep a laminated panel like that together. Of course if it’s a reproduction, who knows.
As others have said, entirely possible to do by hand, if a bit of a pain compared to the raising we’re accustomed to. Of course it would be easier to do by machine, I would guess a table saw using a blade that leaves a wide kerf and some careful depth and fence adjustments would make the job very do-able. Possibly, if it was a popular style, the workshop might use some special machinery. We forget that larger joinery workshops would have had access to this sort of machinery probably from the middle of the 19th century, it becoming gradually more common, more reliable and in use in smaller shops as you move towards the present day.
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