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WarnerConstInc.

Sweet clothes line!! Door trimming = TS-55 or 75.

Door looks nice, sill looks like poopy.

Leo G

Sorry, door trimming = 18v Makita 6 1/2" saw and home made straight edge.

The threshold will be made to look nice. It is in good condition, just a bit worn on the outer edge. A bit of scraping, filling and a good enamel paint will have it looking just right.

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WarnerConstInc.

All that fancy shop equipment and you field trim a door with a battery powered saw?!?

Sill, threshold, thing you trip over when you are drunk.

Leo G

All that fancy shop equipment was 10 miles away. Normally I would use a PC circular saw and a guide. I just got the Makita and wanted to use it. It worked very well. Cut the 1 1/2" door without issue or problems.

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WarnerConstInc.

I have never owned a battery powered saw or recip. saw.

Nice looking door Leo.

Leo G

I have owned 2 battery circular saws, a 12v DeWalt and now the 18v Makita. The reciprocating saws seem underpowered, I tried a DeWalt and cut about 3/4" before I grabbed my corded Milwaukee and gave the battery saw to its owner. Not nearly aggressive enough.

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ruskent

new gig

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Leo G

Making concrete streams?

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ruskent

haha no. Its retaining wall base bud.

Leo G

OK, I'll bite. What's going on top? Any drawings? What is it going to retain? Dirt?

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ruskent

Its a very big paver patio. Yes I have drawings. But I will not post them. I want the finshed product to be a surprise.

Leo G

Yer a frik'n tease

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Tinstaafl

I thought you said the opening wasn't square! Heck, all you had to do for that would have been to make the door 1/4" smaller back when you first fabricated it.

I usually have to hack off about 1/2" to nothing tapers for the good doorways around here.

Tinstaafl

Leo G

I was just as surprised as you. I thought it would be worse. I was glad it wasn't. I tried to keep the lock side untouched, it was easy enough. The house wall tips in about 1/2". This is a self opening door.

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Leo G

Sure does look like one. I was wondering if he made some concrete fish to go in the stream.

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Tinstaafl

Oh, so you upsold him, eh?

Kidding aside, if I did that [making custom doors] on a regular basis, I think I'd make up a jig to get the exact shape of the opening. Take that back to the shop, make the door just right, and it'd be much more of a slam bam to pop it in when delivering.

Leo G

How about a pc of cardboard?

I have a hard enough time trusting myself sizing the door on site. I think I would be crazy to shape the door offsite. I can see it in my head how to make an adjustable door sizer. The only problem can foresee is that not all jambs are straight, many have curves, this would make it difficult to make a single all purpose adjustable jig/template. Cardboard/hardboard/plywood seems the most straightforward way.

Making doors is sporadic at best for me. I really don't like to do it because it is a tough thing to make properly. It can be -20F outside and 70F inside and the door needs to remain stable. The door will swell in the summer and shrink in the winter, yet it needs to stay big/small enough to work properly and stay sealed. With all the newer stave cores the real wood door is nearly dead. The staves are much more stable, but using them requires you to at least have some production capacity. This is not how my business is set up. I am sure that I could outsource the staves, but that would probably make my final price out of reach for my normal clients.

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Tinstaafl

I am totally with you on that. OTOH, granite countertop guys do it all the time.

Jigs definitely have their limitations, but they can almost always be compensated for. Take a bunch of extra measurements, make the jig more complex etc. Maybe a jig plus cardboard.

But as I said, you'd have to be doing it on a really regular basis to make working up a good system worthwhile.

And that, sir, is why I doff my hat to you.

WarnerConstInc.

I want a door made out of LG solid surface, they have some neat stuff.

You could get a laser Leo, for your computer to beam it back to your shop.