How to Build a Solid Wood Door / Start to Finish / Fine Woodworking 

My friends over at Greene Street Joinery our building solid pine doors for a client out in the Hamptons. In this step by step video Jeff and Rob will show us how they build one of the doors. You can see how these doors will look in a few weeks when they’re installed by following Greene Street Joinery on Instagram at this link. instagram.com/greene_st_joinery/ Thanks for watching, Jon

Making the doors a hair long and recutting square later is an invaluable trick of the trade and is something I'll remember from this video . Good job guys !

The Pros make stuff like this just so easy! Great stuff Jon. Would love to see more colabs with the Greene Street Joinery crew!

Thanks for stopping by, Jon!

If possible, please provide a vid on building an exterior panel door. Wood selection, joinery, and panel details would be great.

Thanks for taking us along with you, Jon, and thanks to the guys at Greene St Joinery for taking the time out to go through the process.

Thank you all. Jon I would love to see the video on door hinges placement and finishing.

What a refreshing video. I learned a lot. Trust me.

What a pro! And I kept marveling at that wood, wondering where it came from. Thanks, Jon.

I needed a door from my driveway to my patio wide enough for an offset smoker, with attached tray. So, since 38" w doors aren't available, I made my own out of rough cedar that I milled down to 1 3/4". I also used the 12mm x 240mm dominoes for the joinery. The 1st door I made like this, I used 1" mortise and tenon joinery, but it did not hold up after some tree guys were carelessly bringing a cut tree through the opening. It's been 3 years since I hung the new door and still looks new. I did a few things different, but the end result is the same. Thanks Jon for this trip to a custom shop showing their methods, and methodology. Nice work Greene Street Joinery, hope to see more.

Nice video of the process of building solid doors Jon! Thanks for always sharing with us!💖😎👍JP

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

Great video Jon, Jeff and Rob, and perfect timing too! I just got a lead with a contractor looking for some custom barn style doors for an 1850's house he's redoing for his wife. I've done panel cabinet doors but nothing as large as a full size door. I'll definitely be applying what I just watched to my knowledge base. Thanks!

Awesome! Thanks a bunch, Jon! 😊 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

Jon you do a good job with these. Focused and interesting. Thanks.

I love this type of content. It’s nice to see your videos again 😊

Excellent Jon - as always Sir! It's always a pleasure to watch these kinds of videos. The new shop at Greene St Joinery is shaping up just fine and I appreciate their tutorial. Cheers from Westlock, Alberta, Canada

Superb content, true craftsman doing their thing. Thanks for sharing!

Amazing video Jon Thanks for sharing! I think I’m going to seeing this process one more time for more retention.😊

Really interesting and educational, thanks very much!

Great video Guy's. Thank's for the share Jon, All you Guy's have a nice day. Brian UK !!!.😀😀👍👍.

Excellent video thank you for sharing

What a great video! So informative!

Would love a follow up video on wood selection (i.e. solid wood vs stave core) and why you would do dominoes on stub tenon vs just a longer tenon. Awesome video guys!

Great video Jon. Hope you're doing well

Bet you loved being around all that pine, Jon! You're a trooper enduring that to bring us this great reference video.

Very cool video Jon. The guys over there seem very knowledgeable & tale pride in thier work!! Glad you made it out alive with your allergy & all😂🙏🙏Hoping all is well Bud, Dirty Jersey out!!

That’s some good stuff

Great video thanks for sharing

Very nice!

Wow thanks for the video. This was great because it gave step by step instructions on how they did it. The only thing I didn’t like was it made me want a domino that much more. Lol. Great stuff.

The delicious aroma from the kitchen was ruined by cigarette smoke.

Totally enjoyed the video 😊. I’m a carpenter & joiner with 40 years experience, not used my df700 yet and watched a few videos on solid door construction, pleased I waited for your because the lack of haunches on tenons bothered me, the stud tenons on the rails is simple ( probably) and clears my issue up completely 😊😊😊. I’m hoping the panel buddies are listed on here because I’m in Australia and mass produced door is the norm here which after 13 years living still doesn’t impress me lol, in the main if you buy a solid door here it’s mainly veneered normally 1-1.5mm over finger jointed timber (ISO minded) which once again is not what I expected. So once again totally impressed with the video and of course your joinery and ethics of building the best quality doors I’ve seen using domino df700 Many thanks and regards Trevor

When your getting the lengths of your rails, switch boards around from the way you had them, outside edge to outside edge with the groove facing out..then measure the remaining materiel between the grooves like you did..put the tape on the finished dimension and what's left is the exact cut length..no need to ad anything

thanks

What a pro keep up the good work buddy!

I like how he wears his safty glass around his neck

How heavy are these doors? Would be interesting to test the level of sound deadening compared to a big box hollow core door

I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.

Beautiful work and amazing machinery. Question. If I want to put glass in the door instead of a panel, is it the same process with a narrow dato? Say slightly more than 1/4” for 1/4” tempered glass? For cedar, do I need room for contraction and expansion of the wood?

I’m curious to ask if they cut the 3 degree bevel since he said that he will be mortising in the hinges?

Great video… as always. I learned a lot. Do you think it would be easier to transfer the domino markings from the rails to the stiles before cutting the tenons? Just an idea. Take care.

Will this building technique work for an exterior door? Hardwood vs soft.

Hi Jon, Great video Thanks for sharing! You have told us in the past how you are allergic to pine from years of exposure! How did you fair making this video?

Why do you need the tenons in the styles when the end of a styles itself is a giant tenon? They fit pretty snug into the rails. Is it not enough to just glue in the styles?

Just so happens I have an almost identical door project sitting in limbo in my garage, awaiting answers and some inspiration. Our son's condo has an exterior wooden door to an attached storage unit that some bozo replaced with an interior, skinned particle board door, which, big surprise, has totally disintegrated. And I happen to have an entire dismantled wooden patio cover in my side yard, a pile of pine and fir 4 X 10s and 6 X 6's. Full of knots and nail holes, but with enough selective cutting, I've made up most of the rails and stile blanks I need. Have been debating plywood or solid panels, but these solid panels look fantastic. That door they made is nearly perfect size wise. Thanks for all the help!

24:22 Ridgid foam! Huzzah. And remember you don’t have to keep it 4x8. Two 4x4 pieces will work just as well and are less cumbersome.

Great video, Jon. How do they prevent seeing an unfinished strip along the edge of the panel when they shrink in the winter? Bill

Tell me about the attachment attached to left side of your saw

1-1/8” thick wood is 5/4, not 4/4. Technically, it’s 8/4 because as soon as you go into the next inch, a lot of mills charge for the full inch based on the extended drying time.

Who makes that sliding table saw attachment for your Delta?

Приветсивую! Вы красите дверь после сборки? Зимой внутренняя часть двери высохнет и станет меньше и появятся места которые не красили, как решить эту проблему?

How do you keep it perfectly flat?

Where did you find the wood?

Is that white pine?

Interior door I assume due to the pine?

So you're not using lumber from home depot or Lowe's.

What is ‘snipe’?

Can you dig up a medieval carpenter and get his take on all of your witchcrafty evil powered wood cutting and flattening tools ? 😂😂😂😂😂.

I’d like to know why all the machinery is needed to make doors in this century when the doors they made for building and churches is Europe hundreds of years ago are still in use and looking beautiful. I’m into architectural history in design as a little hobby. I don’t build (although I would love to) I’ve only built a table. I just wonder if in today’s world we are over complicating things? I have a door design in my imagination that I would love to bring to fruition but looking at what all you all are doing in this video I’m thinking it’s not possible unless I find a more historical approach to making doors.

To give hope to someone occurs when you teach them how to use the tools to do it for themselves.

I'm not an expert but if it's made out of peices....is it really a solid wood door?

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

$1000 a door 🎉

sorry he does wear his safty glasses

Isn't the apprentice supposed to be younger than the woodworker?

2” thick doors? Too beefy imo

Those super long Dominos are kind of comical. As if you're gaining any strength whatsoever by making them 6 inches long verses, say, 3 inches long. The thickness is only thing that might potentially help

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

boringgggggggggg