10-17-2018, 06:32 PM
Thank you John,
Here in my city, we have few woodworkers or high end builders/restoration contractors. I’m the main shop guy along with my colleague that is an excellent furniture maker as well as a builder. We are trying to promote ourselves in this way and do build types that no one else in town are even attempting. I have designed 8 entry doors ( including an arch top dutch) that compliment the historical area we live in and we have gone through the process of having them passed via engineering for the city. Historical building is a beast! So we are doing it right along with cope and stick, thru tenon wood windows with linseed glaze. There are a couple other good woodworking shops in town and we are sitting ourselves apart from them. 1 does entry doors via rail and stile shaper cutters backed up with doweling. Hence, why I am telling you all this. At this point we have these 8 and more to come that have their paperwork and business is starting to take off. It would be much better if we could bring the price down by shaving a few hours off the hand work in mortising without loosing the integrity of “our” style. I looked at the Griz horizontal slot mortiser ascwell as the Felder (insane price) and a few more. The Griz is $500 less than the Fessy 700 domino, just not sure about these brands. 2-3 doors would clearly cover the cost, I just don’t want to be figuring it out again in 6 mos.
I was considering the up cut spiral 1/2” bit in router tabler to produce 1” thick tenons in 1 3/4” door and minimal hand chiseling. The horizontal is sounding like a better option at this point.
Thanks again
Jody
Here in my city, we have few woodworkers or high end builders/restoration contractors. I’m the main shop guy along with my colleague that is an excellent furniture maker as well as a builder. We are trying to promote ourselves in this way and do build types that no one else in town are even attempting. I have designed 8 entry doors ( including an arch top dutch) that compliment the historical area we live in and we have gone through the process of having them passed via engineering for the city. Historical building is a beast! So we are doing it right along with cope and stick, thru tenon wood windows with linseed glaze. There are a couple other good woodworking shops in town and we are sitting ourselves apart from them. 1 does entry doors via rail and stile shaper cutters backed up with doweling. Hence, why I am telling you all this. At this point we have these 8 and more to come that have their paperwork and business is starting to take off. It would be much better if we could bring the price down by shaving a few hours off the hand work in mortising without loosing the integrity of “our” style. I looked at the Griz horizontal slot mortiser ascwell as the Felder (insane price) and a few more. The Griz is $500 less than the Fessy 700 domino, just not sure about these brands. 2-3 doors would clearly cover the cost, I just don’t want to be figuring it out again in 6 mos.
I was considering the up cut spiral 1/2” bit in router tabler to produce 1” thick tenons in 1 3/4” door and minimal hand chiseling. The horizontal is sounding like a better option at this point.
Thanks again
Jody
good to have a good woman that has my back.