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jim thompson: alright, what is wanted to dois just spend a quick minute talking about how the door frames get put together. thisis one that i really goofed up on it's a little bit crooked so i wouldn’t able to use; butnow i can use as a demonstration. so basically what i'm doing here very similar to how weput the kick plate together with the dowels, i'm using a couple of dowels on each pieceof this frame to go together like so. design-wise the thickness of frame matches a couple ofthings here so we've got the thickness here on the door frame is going to match the feetthickness as well. so like it gives kind of a uniform feel the frame kind of follows throughwith the feet and so in order to do put these things together we use like i said, the sametechniques with the dowel centers and the

drill press. so i'll use this framing squareto make sure everything is nice and perpendicular, everything is squared up correctly. when allfour pieces are glued together you end up this piece and what you going to want to doonce this is glued you want to sand this down so everything is flush. because there willdefinitely be a little bit of rough material here that will need to come out when thingsaren't quite aligned. what i also recommend to do is wherever the thickness of these piecesthat you've designed in. when you actually cut the pieces you want to make them aboutsixteenth or an eighth of an inch wider than the end result. so what is going to end uphappening is this will be a little bit rough and if it is oversized you can get away withcutting a sixteenth of an inch off of here

and here then they are perfectly aligned andstraight. that is a good way to make sure your doors look great once you're done withoutmaking them too small. jeff schuler: ok, i just want to talk a littlebit about how we are going to mount the glass in the doors. basically what we do is we takea router with a rabbiting bit and we work our way around the edge it is going to leave.it is going to leave a curved edge so we've got to have cleaned that up with a chiseland then basically once we have the glass cut we are going to just hold that in withsome clips. it is pretty simple. basically this is what a rabbiting bit looks like. ithas a got a little ball bearing on there so it in case you are specified the depth ofcut here you just want to make sure you are

in as deep as the glass is thick. always weargoggles when you are doing this and we would like to use some kid of pad or something whenyou are doing a router cut like this it keeps the frame in place for you. you don’t haveto any clamps to get in the way. so i'm going to cut that out. now we are going to moveon to the next step. jt: ok, i want to take a minute and just explainhow we trim up some of the finished pieces on this project. i've got this really awfullooking simulation of the front kick plate instead of nice dowels i've got these threedry wall screws here. but, the important part about this is i want you to get a look atthe fact that the kick plate is little proud of the side. so what we are going to end updoing to make it perfectly flush is using

this router bit this flush mount router bitand in the end we'll take this piece and we'll give it the really flush look that you havehere. hopefully you can see that at home it is perfectly smooth. there is a couple ofthings you want to watch out for. when you are using a flush mount bit as you get tothe end towards the edge of the grain here you want to go real slow and just take a littlebit of material off at a time. because what can happen is you will get little tear out.the fibers of the wood behave in a certain way that they are running in this directionwith the grain and they do have a tendency to tear out if you go too quickly. so thatis something to keep in mind. so let's give this a try with any luck i'll go slow enoughand we'll do a nice smooth cut.

okay i'm going to make one more pass at thisso we get the last of that material away and line the ends up perfectly. js: now that everything seems to fit and everythingis stained what we're going to do is we are going to apply a top coat. there are couplesof decisions you need to make when you pick which kind of top coat you are going to use.i like to use a water based polyacrylic. the reason i like that is because it goes on veryeasily. it also won't yellow over time. the oil base poly urethanes will bring out thegrain more, but three to four years down the road is going to get a lot more yellow. sothe only disadvantage of the water base is you have to put on about two coats then youhave to sand it because it does the raise

the grain of the wood where an oil base won'tdo that. so basically we'll put on two coats give it a light sanding with real fine gridlike i usually use like 220 and then give a third if not a fourth coat. so the otherthing you want to make sure is make sure you have a dust free environment. i am totallycovered with dust right now so i'm not going to start doing this until everything is cleanedup vacuumed up and/or else you won't get the results you want. jt: well jeffrey we've got another easy projecthere. basically a simple set of shelves and slap a couple of doors on the front. js: yeah, well the glass door is really dressedup and they make it a lot more functional

for what we are going to use it for. jt: yeah so now may be we just take her upstairsand be done with it. js: yeah couple of handles and bring it up.so that's our show for today. next month we are going to take some of these pieces thati found around jim shop and try to figure out what they are going to be. this one lookslike may be an oxen yolk? is that? jt: that is actually a leg to a coffee tableconcept i am working on and i myself don’t know if it is going to work so we can giveit a shot. js: well may be you should join us and figurefor yourself. jt: there you go. for just a quick announcementwe do have a website now it is furnitureworkshop.wordpress.com

we are going to have past episodes up there,project photos, behind the scene stuff. so take a look and if you have any comments orquestions or suggestions about the show please email us at furnitureworkshop@yahoo.com andthanks very much for watching. js: thanks a lot.