got a decent shot of a trick I stole from a buddy a coupla years ago. First time I saw Joe do the “fake joint line” … we had just got done building a whole wall entertainment center. Big center cab’s … flanked by smaller window seat/storage cabs. We made it with standard style/rail construction. It was paint grade.
So .. we’re happy with ourselves … the company owner/designer comes in … he’s mad. Where are the miters?
What miters? He wanted the door frames to be mitered at the corners …. never bothered to tell us … it’s junk .. tear off the perfectly good doors and rebuild them … this time … mitered.
So … Joe’s pissed. Then … as he taked the first of the doors off … I see that little lightbulb go on over his head ….
he takes a sharp utility knife … and his speed square … if it’s a mitered line he wants to see thru the paint … that’s what he’ll see. So he lines the square up … and cuts away. Nice and deep. We then sanded the snot out of the “square” line … and hit it all with a coat of primer.
He got to see his mitered frames.
We spent the rest of that Fri sitting outside in the sunshine. Mon morning … that same owners stops by … he’s amazed we got all those doors rebuilt on one Fri afternoon!
I recently hung some old doors making for a set of french closet doors. First time fit … damn near perfect. Only problem … one door had “dropped” at the outside edge. Still pretty much plumb .. and matched the other better than I coulda hoped for … and the bottoms were fairly close … so I really didn’t want to undo everything and cut it all to match.
So .. instead of cutting .. I added.
I measured … needed a piece … 27″ long … tapered from 1/4″ on the fat side to nothing … free handed that on the table saw … used a ton of glue … and stapled from the top. Clamped a block on the feather thin tapered edge …
Looked great. Figured the paint will make the patch disappear … except I now had a straight piece of wood running over my style/rail vertical joint …
so .. out came the old utility knife … and she was faked in!
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Edited 5/2/2005 9:08 pm ET by JEFFBUCK
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Is it my tired old eyes, or are the lock rails not in alignment?
"Is it my tired old eyes, or are the lock rails not in alignment?"
He's gonna "fake" those into alignment as his next trick, Gene........lol.
Bob
. . . yeah, then sand, prime, paint, and draw a little keyhole with his Sharpie !
; ) Greg
they're off by about an 8th.
that is ... they're different widths ... by about an 8th!
matching the existing ... with salvage yard doors ... on a budget ...
That's as good as it gets.
paint them up (and fill some holes/gouges) ... and they'll match everything else in this old crooked house.
Jeff
Nice story.
Reminds me of the old printer who told me the one about the business stationary.
Guy comes in to get his letterhead printed up. Leaves a deposit, goes away. Printer prints the job, guy comes back a week later. Takes a look at it and goes ballistic. Hollers about this, hollers about that, hollers about dang near everything. Orders the printer to do it over. Printer says, OK, it'll be ready next week. Guy storms out.
Printer puts the box of stationary he's printed on the top shelf behind the press and goes back to work.
Following week, the guy comes back in and asks for his job. The printer says Oh yeah, hang on a sec...and reaches up onto the top shelf behind the printing press and hands the guy a box of letterheads.
Guy opens the box, looks at the stuff and says, "That's more like it! Why the hell couldn't you have done it like this the first time??" pays, and stomps out with the job.
Printer goes back to work....
Dinosaur
'Y-a-tu de la justice dans ce maudit monde?
Musta been the same guy!
Jeff