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No. 02

Timber Joinery

Boat Cabin Doors

Timber-framed glazed doors, made in the workshop and fitted to a boat’s cabin.

Pair of glazed, timber-framed doors hung in the cabin opening of a wooden boat, seen from inside with the foredeck and palm trees beyond.

The project

A pair of glazed, timber-framed doors for the cabin of a wooden boat. The photographs follow the work from rough stock on the bench, through cutting and assembling the frames, to the finished doors hung in the cabin opening.

Craftsmanship shown

  • Timber selected and machined to size

  • Frames set out, measured and assembled square

  • Rebates for glazing

  • Doors hung in an existing, weathered opening

Category

Timber Joinery

Year

2023

Gallery

The new timber-framed glazed doors closed in the cabin front, seen from the foredeck.
Edge view of the glazed timber door at the corner of the cabin, with the boat's side benches and the water beyond.
Machined timber sections for the door frames stacked on the saw table, each with grooves cut along its length.
One glazed cabin door standing open on its hinges, seen edge-on from inside the cabin.
Close view of a door frame corner in bare timber, showing the profiled inner edge where stile and rail meet.
The new timber-framed glazed doors closed in the cabin front, seen from the foredeck.
Edge view of the glazed timber door at the corner of the cabin, with the boat's side benches and the water beyond.
Machined timber sections for the door frames stacked on the saw table, each with grooves cut along its length.
One glazed cabin door standing open on its hinges, seen edge-on from inside the cabin.
Close view of a door frame corner in bare timber, showing the profiled inner edge where stile and rail meet.
The new timber-framed glazed doors closed in the cabin front, seen from the foredeck.
One glazed cabin door standing open on its hinges, seen edge-on from inside the cabin.
Edge view of the glazed timber door at the corner of the cabin, with the boat's side benches and the water beyond.
Close view of a door frame corner in bare timber, showing the profiled inner edge where stile and rail meet.
Machined timber sections for the door frames stacked on the saw table, each with grooves cut along its length.

Process

Lengths of sawn and planed timber for the door frames laid across a bench in the workshop.
A door frame set out on the bench and checked along its length with a tape measure.
A glazed door frame on the workshop bench with the glass set into its rebate.

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