Project Log: Saturday, April 20, 2013
While hardly a great stride towards the grand goal of
project completion, it was a pleasure to finally find a
chance to make some progress for the first time in seven
weeks--a terrible delay that I hoped would not be
repeated.
For some time, I'd had a pile of raw cherry door frames
that I glued up earlier collecting dust in a corner of
the shop. Sanding large amounts of trim like these
15 or 16 doors was never a chore to look forward to, and
for that reason--plus the fact that I thought the time
available fit the task--it seemed the perfect job to
push through during
the afternoon. In the process I'd get an onerous
task out of the way, and make an
important step forward. With the
interior so nearly complete, it'd be nice to finish and
hang these doors, and if I got them sanded it'd be that
much easier to complete the varnishing and other final
steps.
Over the course of a few hours, I sanded all the doors
through the grits to remove milling and layout marks and
smooth the surfaces. The smallest group of doors,
which were only 4" high in total with about a 1" tall
center opening, proved to be as time-consuming as the
larger doors, since I had to hand-sand the frame edges
within the narrow openings. I decided to let the
dust in the shop settle before proceeding with the
varnish sealer coat.
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