Making and fitting an Oak Door

I was asked to make a rustic looking Oak door to fit into an old window opening that had been turned into a doorway.

This is the finished door which is made from Oak boards that I joined with biscuits and braced.

The boards were deliberately cut to taper and were all differing sizes to give an original effect.

The making of the door was quite straightforward and quick, what made the job awkward was the frame making and fitting and then getting the correct shape of the arch on the door.

The problems were that the opening was far from level and there were large gaps between the newer stonework at the bottom of the opening, additionally some of the cut stones had slipped out of place over the years, so there was to be much profiling and fiddly cuts and fitting.