The cut offs to cover the screen, the bending the door to tension the screen, screwing the corner pieces for easy removal and paint. The list goes on for for smart and efficient ways that Tommy gets it done. So Awesome!!!
@tuan: That's the benefit of experience, a thousand dollar saw and then even more experience. Tommy is such an experienced beast he makes it all look like cake walk.
@@johnpossum556 As someone once told me. It's not the arrows. It's the Indian shooting the arrow. Put a thousand dollar saw in front of me and I will still create junk. The keyword in your statement is "experience". :) All in all, I enjoy watching these guys do their craft. The chemistry is really good with all of them as well. It's a joy to watch and learn from them all the time! Keep it up!
My pop had an entire woodshop and was good like Tom wasn't anything he couldn't build I'm building some simple screen doors for a garage and watching this is the closest I can get to what my pop would of showed me if he was still alive.Awesome craftsmanship
I do all this stuff, make anything and rarely watch the way others do it but wanted to find a few ideas for the doors I'm going to make for my place. I didn't even know you existed til today. Guess I don't get out much (1.67M subs...+1) I couldn't keep the grin off my face watching you and your "student" make this door. Calm cool and collected, and very nicely done. I've learned a few things as well and particularly like the mortise machine. Didn't even know one like that existed. Been a biscuit joiner dude for years but I gotta get me one of those. Such a good choice for a project like this! Kudos to you in all areas!
This Old House has a million dollars in tools. And I’m over here with a Japanese saw I got on sale at Woodcraft as my only saw trying to build a door 🤣
Excellent workmanship, as always. My only criticism is that it is going to be difficult to rescreen this door. Removing the overlying wood strips without damaging them is likely to be challenging as they are nailed in place. I would have installed them with stainless steel screws.
Back in the 70s I had to putty and paint about 30 storm windows and rescreen the accompanying screen frames for a house while the customer was away on vacation. Scrape everything down, prime, some new glass, putty, two coats of enamel, all new copper screening and screen molding all painted BEFORE the screens were stapled on (c'mon Tom - should have painted all that woodwoork before you installed the screens). Anyway I come back to the house a few months later and see the homeowner had a window replacement company show up and sell them new vinyl windows. I asked where the windows and screens went and they said they all went into a dumpster.
7:11 (Pause it) anybody else notice how she painted the little dots on the railing dowels yellow, as well as the window sill in the background? DETAILS
Laura seems like a nice person with the kind of outward personality that you just want to be around! And of course there's my man Tommy. Good stuff here!
S4S = surfaced all 4 sides. Just means it has gone across the planer/jointer on all sides to ensure flat/square and remove mill marks, not usually sanded.
I noticed staples are put at the edge of recess. This gives a small holding area for the screen after trimming. Better way is put staples in the half way middle of the recess.
As much as I love Tom and TOH, I don't know if the Festool Domino is within reach of most homeowners. Even those do who have tools wouldn't like have this.
That was my thought, too, but I know there are lots of ways to make similar tenon joints. Even if you opted for a series of wooden dowels, I expect that with the lap joint, you're really still have a strong join. After all, people have been making tenons for ages before Festool came around. Another suggestion is to see if your area has a woodworkers club or guild. The one in my area has a shop you can use on weekends, full of tools that a starting woodworker may not have yet collected.
I've been thinking about doing something like this on a modern house. I have French doors with a sliding screen door leading out into our back yard. the screen door is pretty bent up from dogs running into it so I was thinking of ways I can replace it and what I can replace it with. We could easily go with another slider but I am not sure that is the route we want to take.
Would be interesting to see how to build one with a homeowner tools. Wasn’t that her initial goal? Great work, but not really helpful for the average homeowners wanting to make one themselves.
@@watcherofwatchers they should seriously just do it with like walmart tools. if they could do it with them, i am sure everyone would feel like it was more accessible.
@@watcherofwatchers I will point out that the Domino in particular is not going to be a tool that the crowd that watches this is likely to have. It's insanely expensive. He should have shown a dowel jig or half lap mortises, etc. Something the Ave Joe could do with average tools.
Another great Tommy project, the guy is a legend. The set up he has with the two mft tables and Festool kapex mitre saw with extensions would cost $7,470.40 to buy new... in New Zealand dollars 🇳🇿
Yep....how to build stuff if you can afford the Festool setup. I'd be more impressed if he did it with an off the shelf Dewalt Makita or even Harbor Freight setup.
Was really hoping to see how you mortised the hinges into the door jamb...dang. However, enjoyed watching the door build; although that is not why I watched the video.
Now show me how to make the screen door that doesn't require a $1,060 Festool Domino Joiner. 😂 It's a beautiful door. For the cheapos out there like me though, dowels may do a trick for the price of a drill bit you already have and some premade long dowels cut to size. You can also use a bench top router to make dowels, which stumpynubs has a great video on. Beyond that, you can get fancy with hand tools and finesse if you have time and want to do that.
You know how I know Tommy is the real deal? He always wears his ear protection. Now that’s a true craftsmen. Anything less is just a lazy fool. #protect those ears and fingers
Would have been a lot easier to paint before putting the screen in. Understand Tommy's time on site is limited but could have used a fast-drying primer and paint like Zinnser shellac and SW Emerald Urethane. Also very annoying that it didn't show how he marked the door against an opening that was covered up by the door, could have saved time elsewhere like not showing how to use the Domino tool - if you have one you know how to use it.
Is there a vid that talks about soil erosion under a concrete sidewalk/walkway? The solid on one side is disappearing. Which is the side where we park our cars so there’s not much room to add soil.
@@jonoel6638 or, you can use substitute processes. The domino makes it faster and easier, not possible. People are way too hung up on the cost of Festool. They make great products, but they are not essential.
