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   Sgian_Dubh | Sep 01, 1999 04:16am | #1

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   I've done quite a few barred and glazed doors. I'm going to be a teensy bit lazy here, and direct you to a book that will largely answer your question. Ernest Joyce, The Technique (US Dictionary) of Furniture Making, ISBN, 0 7134 0217 2, or in US 0 8069 6440 5, chapter 31. The techniques he outlines for barred glass doors are essentially what you are looking for, except that you are planning to lay the 'grille' over the glass, so you will have to make slight modifications to suit. (I'm assuming you want a timber look.)

   In any case, Joyce is an invaluable source of technical information that you can use for many other projects.

   A technique Joyce does not mention (possibly because he would never think of doing anything so low rent) is to get the fake laid on effect simply by cutting out the shape required in a piece of plywood and applying it over the glass. Aesthetically rather unpleasing, I have to say.

   Also, to achieve the mouldings you are looking to produce in solid timber, a typical trick is to make them on the edge of something fairly heavy, such as 100 mm X 18 mm and then rip the moulding off. You can then cut, mitre, and fit the mouldings produced reasonably easily.

   If you are looking to make curved mouldings, then laminating up thin sections, and then moulding them is a typical method used. This requires some careful setting up of jigs, along with the router or spindle moulder/shaper, and the relevant cutter to work them.

   I'm hoping this puts you in the right general direction at least, but if you are still a bit flummoxed, get back.